Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

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SiliconFly

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I think that is where we differ. When there are plentiful E cores, there would be no need to preempt the preferred cores. We could finally have dedicated cores to our important programs with no* context switching, no preemption, etc. of those important tasks.


* Yes, gdansk, there would still be context switching of the unimportant tasks on unimportant cores.


"Usually" is not sufficient in my experience. I see all kinds of stutters and delays when background tasks kick in. Maybe it is fine with your tasks. But certainly not for me.
Well, as of now there is no way to avoid context-switching completely. But we can mitigate the effects of context switching by setting process affinity & core pinning.
 

JoeRambo

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But we can mitigate the effects of context switching by setting process affinity & core pinning.

Only partially. Even on same core if process A ran, then process B ran, once process A needs to run again, it will find TLBs, branch predictors etc etc flushed. Even with caches it's not straitforward due to ASID usage and the common sense fact that B "ran" and evicted lines of A's first run.
It will take a lot of cycles for process A to reach peak perf due to TLBs and BPs needing refilling and 'training".
 

Geddagod

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Genuinely think Intel borked their slides accidentally, or Intel pulled up like waaaay faster than anyone thought they could. PTL before 2025 sounds wild.
 

JoeRambo

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Arrow lake is 20A confirmed 😄✅ .. lunar lake is looking good

I am starting to think, that ARL performance estimates were like being Sierra Forrest 144C only -> designed to weed out rabid leakers.
If it is really on 20A, numbers we were "given" don't really make sense at all.

Anyway not long to wait, seems like 2024 is gonna be a year we all will drown in some Lake.
 

H433x0n

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I am starting to think, that ARL performance estimates were like being Sierra Forrest 144C only -> designed to weed out rabid leakers.
If it is really on 20A, numbers we were "given" don't really make sense at all.

Anyway not long to wait, seems like 2024 is gonna be a year we all will drown in some Lake.
I hope that’s true but I wouldn’t bet on it. The only way that’s the case is if they can somehow get ARL-S to clock in the neighborhood of 5.4ghz.
 

Henry swagger

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I am starting to think, that ARL performance estimates were like being Sierra Forrest 144C only -> designed to weed out rabid leakers.
If it is really on 20A, numbers we were "given" don't really make sense at all.

Anyway not long to wait, seems like 2024 is gonna be a year we all will drown in some Lake.
I have to give mild credit his intel leaks are rarely wrong.. intel engineers must trust him