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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 03:31:48 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bitslice DES on GPU
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 12:04:55AM +0100, magnum wrote:
> On 7 Dec, 2012, at 9:42 , Sayantan Datta <std2048@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Milen Rangelov <gat3way@...il.com> wrote:
> > Why would you want to do that via patching (given that they are compile-time constants)?
> >
> > The so called constants will change with every new salt which is why I need to patch them at runtime.
>
> What amount of data are we talking about? Have you tried fitting them in a __constant buffer? Or would that likely be significantly slower?
What I think happens at ISA level when we hard-code (or runtime patch)
the offsets is something like (in pseudo-assembly):
LD reg1,[reg2+immediate_offset]
or in case some other base offset was involved, it could be:
LD reg1,[reg5+reg2+immediate_offset]
What happens when we have the actual offsets in some memory area instead:
LD reg3,[reg4+immediate_offset]
LD reg1,[reg2+reg3]
or in case some other base offset was involved, it could be even:
LD reg3,[reg4+immediate_offset]
ADD reg3,reg2,reg3
LD reg1,[reg5+reg3]
Even if the first LD is such that it loads from some different address
space (memory available anyway, possibly lower latency), it's still
significant extra work - and we use an extra register here. To hide the
latency of the first LD, we'd use many extra registers (many per
work-item, times many work-items).
So I think that runtime patching at native ISA level is the way to go.
Re-transferring the code to the GPU is OK.
Alexander
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