Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
by davidmr on Sunday June 25, 2017 @12:23PM
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In my limited experience, their root cause analyses are really impressive as well with lots of internal attention and resources. I'm not allowed to talk about any Intel issues, but we reported a very strange issue to Nvidia, sent a couple of dozen cards back and six months later got a truly fascinating report back we with hundreds of pages of compute test result tables and electron microscope images and chemistry lab reports. Anything that hints of a manufacturing problem is taken incredibly seriously.
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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
by baruch on Sunday June 25, 2017 @02:23PM
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I worked for a large company that used thousands of Intel CPUs every year and when we suspected a CPU bug we were mostly brushed off. We had a very persistent person on the team who kept tracking the issue to find correlations and some very good kernel developers that went on to nearly pin-point the issue and only then did Intel pay attention and it then took them still several months to acknowledge the issue give a brief report on the issue and acknowledge that our proposed workaround will indeed work.
I've never seen Intel do a very good job at failure analysis or following on with failures unless prodded very hard.
Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
by magila on Sunday June 25, 2017 @03:16PM
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Intel likely has very thorough data on the issue, but you'll never see it unless you are one of their tier 1 customers* and have an NDA with them. In my experience working for a large hardware manufacturer they are very skittish about releasing detailed failure analysis data to outside companies.
* For Intel that would be companies like Dell, Apple, HP, and maybe a couple of others.
Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
by Sharlin on Sunday June 25, 2017 @03:05PM
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To be fair, I don't even want to think about the amount of spurious bug reports they are probably receiving.
Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
by efraim on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:16PM
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Here's a video of a tour of Nvidia's lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRz_CG3DZb4