[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:00:30 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 23% performance regression for brypt (Intel i5-4570
CPU)
On 2015-04-12 12:14, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> Solar,
>
> you included the bcrypt related changes of bleeding-jumbo commit
> https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/commit/f64b42fee9e368cd85cf546f08b694510824fea2
> into core, but decided to not allow BF_X2 = 3 for AVX systems.
> (I guess this is because on well BF_X2 = 3 causes about 5% performance
> regression.)
>
> But for my system (64bit Linux, i5-4570 CPU), this causes a 23%
> performance regression.
Same here, on i7-3615QM (Ivy Bridge, AVX), OSX, gcc 4.9.2. Using X3 I
get 27% boost for a non-OMP build, 22% for OMP and while it's just 4%
boost for OMP+HT, it still is a boost.
> May be you also reconsider allowing BF_X2 = 3 for AVX.
If only well had a regression, perhaps decrease to X2 only for __AVX2__?
Or maybe this is also about gcc version?
> Is there anything I can test, any more information you need to decide
> when BF_X2 should be 3 even for AVX, and when it shouldn't?
https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1199
magnum
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
