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Daniël de Kok 2de232d2b3 Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types
When performing distributed builds of machine learning packages, it
would be nice if builders without the required SIMD instructions can
be excluded as build nodes.

Since x86_64 has accumulated a large number of different instruction
set extensions, listing all possible extensions would be unwieldy.
AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE have recently defined four different
microarchitecture levels that are now part of the x86-64 psABI
supplement and will be used in glibc 2.33:

https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI
https://lwn.net/Articles/844831/

This change uses libcpuid to detect CPU features and then uses them to
add the supported x86_64 levels to the additional system types. For
example on a Ryzen 3700X:

$ ~/aps/bin/nix -vv --version | grep "Additional system"
Additional system types: i686-linux, x86_64-v1-linux, x86_64-v2-linux, x86_64-v3-linux
2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
.github Auto closing issues/PRs after 1year. 2021-02-08 11:49:07 +01:00
config Update config.guess for proper arm64 macOS detection 2020-12-02 19:14:34 -06:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Remove newline in operator table. 2021-02-01 17:42:14 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add some missing clean-files 2020-10-18 20:32:59 +02:00
mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
nix-rust Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
perl Make sodium a required dependency 2021-01-06 17:56:53 +01:00
scripts scripts/install-nix-from-closure: only show progress if a terminal is used 2021-01-22 10:35:02 +01:00
src Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types 2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
tests Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types 2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types 2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock Update to lowdown 0.7.9 2021-01-26 10:47:40 +01:00
flake.nix Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types 2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Move command plugin interface to libnixcmd 2021-01-26 06:22:24 -05:00
Makefile.config.in Add x86_64 compute levels as additional system types 2021-02-22 09:11:15 +01:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md README: fix link to hacking guide 2020-12-28 09:30:14 -08:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

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