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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:56:33 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Interleaving of intrinsics


> On Jun 23, 2015, at 2:03 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> 
> One thing that is clear is that non-fully-unrolled *_PARA_DO are not
> acceptable.  If there are not enough registers for fully unrolling
> these without incurring spilling, then the interleaving factor should be
> smaller.  On MIC, there should be enough registers for the interleaving
> factors considered above (up to 5x).

The only mechanism I can find to control the unrolling of a specific loop is '#pragma unroll (n)', which supposedly tell the compiler to unroll the loop by the factor of exactly n. I just tried it on MD5_PARA_DO, with icc, clang and gcc respectively. Below are the size of text segment before and after using this directive, sorted by interleaving factors. All compilers were invoked with -O2.

[icc]
factor	before	after
----------------------
x1	118220	118220
x2	132564	132268
x3	138276	146220
x4	152420	164732

[clang]
factor	before	after
----------------------
x1	117562	117562
x2	124658	125602
x3	131042	133954
x4	136882	143170

[gcc]
factor	before	after
----------------------
x1	124897	124897
x2	124471	124471
x3	131537	131537
x4	138291	138291

It seems icc and clang paid enough respect to this directive, but gcc somehow just ignored it.


Lei

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