AMD Platform QoS Support For Next-Gen EPYC Processors Landing In Linux 4.21

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Platform QoS Support For Next-Gen EPYC Processors Landing In Linux 4.21

The AMD Platform QoS support talked about a few months ago on Phoronix is landing for the upcoming Linux 4.21 kernel. While not officially confirmed, this Quality of Service system resource work appears almost surely for the next-generation 7nm EPYC processors coming out in the months ahead...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-QoS-Landing-Linux-4.21

[rukur]

I bought a 1700 on release and it's a great CPU. OC'ed since I got it. Im burning a hole in my pocket on zen2 and a big Jump in Ghz. I dont need 16 cores but I might just get them because. Reasons.

[tchiwam]

The last time I've built a system for number munching was in the opteron period dual socket I 326 with maxed memory. Still used it 5 years ago. Now it's time again to build my next dual socket.

The only thing I know is to be careful with the number of ops per memory fetch. Something current benchmarks are not good at hinting to.