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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:45:28 -0400
From: Yaniv Sapir <yaniv@...pteva.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Parallella: bcrypt
> I tried this and for me it doesn't work, I don't get correct results. I
> took code I sent you (http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2013/07/06/3)
> and did only that, commented out "outbuf.start[corenum] = 0" and some cores
> return wrong results. Even worse, cores that return wrong results are
> different for every run and wrong results are also different. Output that I
> get is attached. Could you please check that you changed only that?
>
>
Sorry if it was not clear, but in addition to commenting out the "start[]"
signal, I also added a dummy place-holder after the "done" member of the
structure, to make sure both sides have the same member alignment.
> And one more question - can core halt itself and if can, how?
>
Technically, it can when issuing the IDLE instruction.
> Since writing to core's local memory and than starting cores using e_start
> works, I can have infinite loop in which first instruction is halt and
> after all writes are done, host starts the cores with e_start. After one
> iteration core halts itself and gets new data. If this is possible
> scenario, what would happen if core is halted and data transfers aren't
> executed completely (by data transfer I mean transfer of result from local
> memory to shared buffer)?
>
If the core itself is the initiator of the halt condition (either by IDLE,
or just by polling a signal mailbox ), I don't see how data transfers are
not executed completely? Do I miss something? Anyway if your data size per
round is relatively small, why not use the core's memory directly as a
mailbox? This way, you save the effort of writing to DRAM. Host reading
from a core location is just as easy as reading from external mem.
> Thank you,
>
> Katja
>
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