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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:24:07 +0200
From: Milen Rangelov <gat3way@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: AMD Bulldozer and XOP
Hello :)
> It got plenty of buggy code already, adding some more wouldn't hurt. ;-)
> Seriously, though, I think many contributions are useful as PoCs - then
> other contributors to the project may re-code things in a cleaner way.
I can help with some kernels. In fact, JtR is very inspiring project. I
like to look at how people solved similar problems often in different ways.
> I'm sorry, that comment of mine was wrong and misleading. For a moment
> I confused VEX-encoding vs. not with XMM vs. YMM registers. Indeed,
> VPCMOV exists for XMM registers as well, and in fact this is what JtR
> normally uses in -xop builds (except in 32-bit x86 builds, where it
> tries to use 256-bit AVX and XOP to compensate for the low register
> count, which in practice turned out to be beneficial on Sandy Bridge,
> but not on Bulldozer - so I am going to stop doing that for -xop).
>
>
So 256-bit XOP is slower than 128-bit one? This reminds me of SSE2 and some
old Pentium 4 CPUs :)
> Yeah, I was surprised to hear you got into the CPU stuff at all - I
> thought you were a GPU guy. ;-)
>
>
Not exactly. I like GPGPU stuff though, it's still easy and predictable and
very challenging at times. It's also much more straightforward - you get
what you see. When coding CPU stuff with performance in mind, there are
just so many factors and the x86 architecture itself is a monster :)
> Like I said above, the 256-bit bitwise ops are currently slow. On Sandy
> Bridge, they deliver about the same per-bit speed that the 128-bit ones
> do, and on Bulldozer they appear to be slower. Things should change
> with future CPUs, though - especially with those supporting AVX2 (which
> officially gives us 256-bit integer vectors).
>
That's bad. I expected some decent speedup by using 256-bit vectors. Looks
like I should wait until Haswell (or whatever the first AVX2 chip is) comes
out...
Regards
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