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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:57:11 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Rotate and bitselect investigation
On 2012-07-10 04:35, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 07:19:38AM +0530, Sayantan Datta wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>>> This won't detect CPUs, though - where we also don't want to use
>>> bitselect() most of the time (the instruction is only available with XOP
>>> and is probably not used by current OpenCL SDKs since I think only
>>> Intel's does vectorization) - but this code is mostly just for AMD and
>>> NVIDIA GPUs now. We have faster MSCash2 code on CPU anyway.
>
>> So we should use manual bitselect by default.
>
> But we don't have a trick similar to cl_nv_pragma_unroll that would let
> us detect AMD GPUs. So I am fine with us using bitselect() by default
> and only disabling it on NVIDIA, unless/until we learn of a trick to
> detect AMD GPU in OpenCL (or introduce such way by passing the info from
> our C code).
There is some stuff in common-opencl.c that can be used. We add
-DDEVICE_IS_CPU when building for CPU. And we have -DDEVICE_INFO that
can be parsed for vendor ID. I think Claudio can shed some light on the
latter, I'm not sure how to use it.
magnum
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