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Message-ID: <20150831080818.GA11041@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:08:18 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: PHC: Argon2 on GPU
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 01:44:32AM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> 2015-08-29 8:48 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> > As to loop unrolling, there's "#pragma unroll N", and when you specify
> > N=1 so "#pragma unroll 1" I think it prevents unrolling. As an
> > experiment, I tried adding "#pragma unroll 1" before all loops in
> > argon2d_kernel.cl, and the PTX instruction count reduced - but not a
> > lot.
>
> Can I get this code?
Attached, although this is just an experiment. I think at least the
loops in ComputeBlock_pgg() actually need to stay unrolled, and not
patched like I do here.
I used this experiment to see how much we can reduce the instruction
count. The conclusion is that we primarily need to look elsewhere,
since the reduction from ~100k to ~80k is just not good enough anyway.
The change to rotr64() that just happened to get into this patch should
get in, though.
> > We need to figure out why it doesn't get lower. ~80k is still a lot.
> > Are there many inlined functions and unrolled loops in the .h files?
>
> there are also blake2 files
Yes.
You need to find out how we can reduce the kernel size more
substantially. If undesirable function inlining can't be prevented,
this may be a reason to replace some multiple references to a function
with a loop containing a single reference to the function. e.g.:
func(1);
func(2);
may be replaced with:
#pragma unroll 1
for (i = 1; i <= 2; i++)
func(i);
Of course, in real code things are usually trickier than that, but a
similar approach may often be applied.
All of this is for relatively non performance critical code, so that
we'd have more cache available for the critical code.
Alexander
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