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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:51:46 -0400
From: Yaniv Sapir <yaniv@...pteva.com>
To: john-dev <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Parallella: Litecoin mining
Why not define buffers (pointers) in the number of cores in the workgroup,
each pointing to some base_address+corenum*sizeof(buf), where
corenum=(row*rows+col)? On the device side you can resolve the core's buf
address in the same way, using the e_group_config object members.
(or maybe I missed your point altogether?)
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <
lord.rafa@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2013/8/27 Yaniv Sapir <yaniv@...pteva.com>
>
>> Rafael, if this question is still relevant, then yes, you can dynamically
>> allocate memory using standard malloc(). However, malloc() (and other
>> functions using its mechanism, like printf()) cannot be placed in internal
>> memory and have to be executed from external mem, which is a bad thing
>> w.r.t performance of critical code.
>>
>> That said, I think that "to allocate dynamic memory on an specific
>> address" is kinda contradiction, since "specific" and "dynamic" do not work
>> together... If what you're looking for is a memory region at a specific
>> address, but who's life period is limited (i.e., the region can be reused
>> for other purposes), then use pointers set to those "specific addresses"
>> instead of static allocation of buffers.
>
>
> Thank you Yaniv, I just wonder if there was a way to do it, because would
> be nice in order to work with any core number. Each core need to write its
> hash in a know address based in its row and col. With the current approach,
> only a predefined number of cores can work, but if there was a way to write
> to a specific address, we would have a code that would work in any
> epiphany processor, independently of the core number.
>
> Regards,
> Rafael.
>
>
>
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