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Message-Id: <DDD80B04-1A36-4020-A158-EAA783710103@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 00:24:49 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Interleaving of intrinsics
> On Jun 6, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> Your use of VTune appears to be similar to use of gprof. If you use
> VTune at all, I'd expect you to profile things such as cache misses and
> pipeline stalls, as well as utilization of the CPU's execution units.
> Things that only the CPU vendor's profiler is capable of.
I played with VTune for a while and gathered some more statistics. There're so many micro-architecture metrics that it's a bit overwhelming. I picked a some metrics which VTune marked as non-optimal for some interleaving factors and showed them here:
(figures prefixed with * are marked as non-optimal by VTune; x1/2/3/4 denote interleaving factors)
Configurations: icc, non-OpenMP, Linux VM, --test=20 --format=pbkdf2-hmac-sha256
Filled Pipeline Slots -> Retirement
x1 0.613*
x2 0.658*
x3 0.620*
x4 0.592
(This metric represents a fraction of slots during which CPU was retiring uOps not originated from the Microcode Sequencer)
Unfilled Pipeline Slots -> Back-End Bound
x1 0.355*
x2 0.246*
x3 0.342*
x4 0.338*
(Identify slots where no uOps are delivered due to a lack of required resources for accepting more uOps in the back-end of pipeline)
Unfilled Pipeline Slots -> Front-End Bound -> Cache Misses
x1 0.004
x2 0.003
x3 0.024*
x4 0.018*
(A proportion of instruction fetches are missing in the instruction cache)
Full reports are attached, containing more detailed metrics. But some near-zero figures might be inaccurate where VTune reports the amount of samples collected is too low.
Honestly I don't have a very solid understanding of micro-architecture and could't interpret many of those metrics. Maybe you can get some hints out of them.
Lei
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