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Message-Id: <5A558963-4502-457B-ADB6-97269873CE0C@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:48:15 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] JtR SIMD support enhancements
> On Apr 26, 2015, at 1:39 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> Looks reasonable now. Just a bit slower than expected:
>
> 5888/6339 = 93%
> 236/240 = 98%
>
> Is the overhead of offloading so high that we have a 5% performance hit
> even at these low c/s rates? I guess the initial S-boxes get
> transferred from host every time?
Yes, it's transferred from host to MIC every time. It's even transferred back from MIC to host, which is the default behavior of offloading. I tried tweaking with the pragma options to eliminate unnecessary transfers, but gained no significant improvement.
Code:
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#pragma offload target(mic) in(salt:length(1)) in(BF_magic_w) in(BF_init_state) in(BF_exp_key) in(BF_init_key) out(BF_out)
...
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Output:
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[zhanglei@...ter src]$ ../run/john --test --format=bcrypt
Will run 12 OpenMP threads
Benchmarking: bcrypt ("$2a$05", 32 iterations) [Blowfish 32/64 X2]... DONE
Raw: 5900 c/s real, 5911 c/s virtual
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> Do you have access to any machines with more than one MIC card, to see
> how offload would behave there?
Sorry, I don't.
> Anyway, did you commit this code to some branch? Non-default, I guess,
> since it's highly experimental and mostly breaks things? We should
> preserve it somewhere for future experiments.
The modifications I made to the code is a bit nasty for the moment. It'll need more polishing before getting committed.
Lei
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