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Message-ID: <20120516142646.GA15647@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:26:46 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: OpenCL vs. CUDA CPU usage
Hi,
This is just an observation: somehow with CUDA we're fully wasting an
entire CPU core per GPU, whereas with OpenCL we're only using some CPU
time on one core:
user@...l:~$ ps axuw | fgrep -w john
user 14325 9.2 0.8 21345708 72932 pts/3 SNl+ 17:52 2:40 ./john /home/user/john/contest-2011/hashes-all.txt-3.phpass -i -fo=phpass-opencl -pla=1
user 14702 100 0.4 21154568 38384 pts/4 RNl+ 18:10 10:43 ./john /home/user/john/contest-2011/hashes-all.txt-3.phpass -i -fo=phpass-cuda -se=n
Notice how the OpenCL run (using the 7970 card) consumes only 9.2% CPU,
whereas the CUDA run (using the 570) consumes 100% (I guess mostly
wasted on active waits for the GPU).
I wonder if there's a tunable setting for CUDA to make it wait passively
(so that the CPU would stay cooler or we could use this CPU core by
another instance of John).
I also wonder if we'd see the same CPU wastage with OpenCL on the 570.
I can easily try that next, indeed.
Alexander
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