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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:44:23 +0200
From: Katja Malvoni <kmalvoni@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Parallella: bcrypt

On Jul 30, 2013 1:38 AM, "Solar Designer" <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> Katja, Yaniv -
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:44:09AM +0200, Katja Malvoni wrote:
> > I moved to separate assembly file and my code from yesterday worked. I
> > implemented whole BF_encrypt2() in assembly.
> > There are no enough registers to preload both P arrays so I'm preloading
> > only on
>
> How is that - not enough registers to preload both P arrays?  We got 64
> registers and little demand for them other than for the two P's (need 36
> for them).
>
> > Speed is 1175 c/s.
>
> Good, but it should be 1200 c/s with both P'c preloaded. ;-)
>
> > Code is in https://github.com/kmalvoni/JohnTheRipper/tree/master
> >
> > I left two rounds in one macro - since there needs to be 4 cycles
between
> > ALU following FPU instruction to have dual issue, with only one round
it's
> > not possible to have shift right by 22 on ALU and FPU for both instances
> > and to use iadd at the end. With two rounds in one macro one shift
right by
> > 22 and one add are not parallelised for one macro.
>
> I find the above description a bit confusing, but I understand the
> general issue.  OK.
>
> Have you tried replacing the right shift by 22 followed by AND with
> right shift by 24 followed by IMUL?  (AND is non-free, whereas IMUL is
> potentially free.)
>
> > When I used r2 and r3 for L0 and R0, before preloading P array, speed
was
> > 1083 c/s. But when I changed to r48 and r56 it became 1136 c/s. I guess
> > it's because with r2 and r3 some instructions were 16-bit.
>
> That's puzzling.  Yaniv - is dual-issue (or something else) hampered by
> having some 16-bit instructions inter-mixed with 32-bit ones?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander

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