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Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:09:47 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] John the Ripper support for PHC finalists
Agnieszka,
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> 2015-05-05 20:00 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 01:18:46AM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> >> 2015-04-27 3:50 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> >>
> >> > BTW, bumping into total GPU global memory size may be realistic with
> >> > these memory-hard hashes. Our TITAN's 6 GB was the performance
> >> > limiting factor in some of the benchmarks here:
> >> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/crypt-dev/2014/03/13/1
> >>
> >> I use only 128MB
> >
> > What happens if you increase GWS further? Does performance drop? What
> > if you manually increase GWS even further? It might happen that the
> > auto-tuning finds a local minimum, whereas a higher GWS is optimal.
>
> the speed drops significantly when I make gws x2 bigger
Can you try making it bigger yet anyway? This probably won't help, but
it may be worth trying.
> > BTW, can you explain why sMAP is as it is?
> >
> > #define sMAP(X) ((X)*GID+gid4)
> >
> > where:
> >
> > gid = get_global_id(0);
> > GID = get_global_size(0);
> > gid4 = gid * 4;
> >
>
> sMAP, MAP and cMAP stands for coalescing (IIRC it's around 5 (maybe
> more) times faster with it)
Ideally, you'd literally explain these definitions in source code comments.
> > Also, I notice there are some if/else in G and H macros. Are they
> > removed during loop unrolling, or do they translate to exec masks in the
> > generated code?
>
> I cached values from memory into variables and I must check if
> i0==index_global and i0==index_local, it's faster with this. In F all
> workitems execute the same if-else branch but not in H. I didn't
> disassemble the code yet. I doubt
I don't understand.
What exactly have you cached?
Do you expect the "i0==index_local" and "i0==index_global" conditions to
often be true, or are these rare special cases? I'd expect the latter,
but I don't see the purpose.
> >> and the gws number with the memory usage were the same, I can nothing
> >> to do with this bottleneck
> >>
> >> but If I remove everything from the code, GWS also doesn't differ
> >
> > "Everything"?
>
> if I change my function into pomelo_crypt_kernel(args...) { nothing }
> but sorry, this was a false positive, If i set manually gws in this
> case everything looks normal
Does this suggest that GWS auto-tuning does not work correctly?
> > AMD GCN (dev=0 and dev=1 in super) has 64 KB of local memory per CU.
> > See http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/06/2620_final.pdf
> > slide 10.
>
> I checked local memory size using this code
>
> clGetDeviceInfo(devices[gpu_id],CL_DEVICE_LOCAL_MEM_SIZE,sizeof(cl_ulong),&local_memory_size,NULL);
> printf("mamy %llu\n",(unsigned long long) local_memory_size);
>
> and I was getting 48 and 32 KB
Which devices do these correspond to?
Alexander
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