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Some of the public x86 ISA extensions were things that hyperscalers specifically requested.
by jeffbee 1y ago
Some of the public x86 ISA extensions were things that hyperscalers specifically requested.
- clausecker 1y agoSuch as?
- kijiki 1y agoMost of the Intel cache partitioning things were driven primarily by Google. The holy grail was to colocate latency-sensitive tasks with bulk background tasks to increase cluster utilization.
- jeffbee 1y agoI guess technically CAT and RDT are not ISA extensions because they are managed by MSRs. I was thinking of aspects of BMI, but I am sure that large-scale buyers had input into things like vector extensions, PMU features, and the things you mentioned as well.