shafall t1_jd2380o wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:56 AM Reply to comment by Enturbulated in [Project] Alpaca-30B: Facebook's 30b parameter LLaMa fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset by imgonnarelph To give some more specifics, most of the time its not the CPU that copies the data on modern systems, it is the PCI DMA chip (that may be on the same die though). CPU just sends address ranges to DMA Info Permalink Parent 1
shafall t1_jd2380o wrote
Reply to comment by Enturbulated in [Project] Alpaca-30B: Facebook's 30b parameter LLaMa fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset by imgonnarelph
To give some more specifics, most of the time its not the CPU that copies the data on modern systems, it is the PCI DMA chip (that may be on the same die though). CPU just sends address ranges to DMA Info