Topic: [ANN]: cpuminer-opt v3.8.8.1, open source optimized multi-algo CPU miner - page 62. (Read 444040 times)

Looking into it.

Because algo supports SSE2 only

Hi, the aes-avx2 windows binary build crashes on i5-7600 while using hsr algo (-t 4 -a hsr). No issues for aes-avx version.

Isn't AES, AVX better than SSE2? My CPU shows support for AES and AVX, yet the algo being used is SSE2. I am running the cpuminer-aes-avx.exe so why is it using SSE2 algo?


Thanks

Thanks for reposting the first post but I've already read it, maybe you should read it too.

Hshare coin coins do not seem to be mine
What is the updated algorithm for mining the coin?

Thanks for the update.  It's a pity, as I hear m7m does much better with SHA optimizations.

Unfortunately I can't yet compile with SHA. One user claims to have successfully done it on Windows but didn't share the procedure
so I'm now skeptical.

Hi, I haven't been on here for a while now.  Just wondering if the Windows binary is now compiled with SHA support working.  I have both a Ryzen 1700 and a TR 1950X I'd like to fully utilize when there's down time, which both have hardware SHA acceleration if I am correct.

Thanks!

-t defines number of cores
--cpu-priority set process priority (default: 0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
--cpu-affinity    set process affinity to cpu core(s), mask 0x3 for cores 0 and 1


with this parameters can you define how much is CPU working.

Hiya,
Is it possible to trottle with this miner, let's say to use cores at 50%?

cpuminer-opt v3.6.9 released.

Added phi1612 algo for LUX coin
Added x13sm3 algo, alias hsr, for Hshare coin

git: https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt

source tarball: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lVSGQYLJIZdy1fQ2o5T1otXzQ/view?usp=sharing

Windows binaries: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lVSGQYLJIZVWtXa1RZcE0wWEE/view?usp=sharing

Having more registers at your disposal is always nice - it allows for new possibilities in how you write the code - especially if there are a lot of variables or tables.


I think the problem is from xmm->ymm due to having 1x128 or 2x128 lanes which create a dependency issue, requiring the zeroing of the upper ymm part to use the xmm without a perf penalty. There's a lot of avx code that sucks without vzeroupper for this reason. IIRC ymm->zmm don't have the same issue, even if they overlap, but I may be wrong on this.

But having +16 more registers is good for such scenarios also... in case you want to reuse a register which was previously overlapped, you just use a new one thus avoiding false dependencies altogether (assuming at least a vzeroupper or a vzeroall at the start of the function).


Something like that...


There's a lot of things they can be used for. Essentially they perform partial operations on the full width of a register, but this can be pretty useful. You can avoid doing some stuff twice and blending the two different stuff, (as you can do it in one go), you can read memory up to X bytes by using the appropriate mask, etc.

If you are using, say, a 512bit vector on 64bit elements, and want to perform something on 384 bits (6x64) you just put a 0b00111111 on the k register and then use the k register alongside with the instruction. Or you can do stuff like 0b01010101, thus working on first, third, fifth, seventh element and leaving the rest unchanged (or have it overwritten with zeroes on one go - depending the z flag setting, which is also new).

Now that I'm thinking about this, and this is relevant to what you said earlier on xmm/ymm/zmm overlap and performance issues, one can use just one type of register (like zmm or ymm) for all types of operations, whether small or large, assuming they also use the appropriate k register to set the width they want. In this way false dependencies should be nullified even between xmm/ymm. You want to do 128bit op? You use a ymm register with a 0b00001111 (32bit elements) or 0b0011 (64bit elements) k-mask and the ymm is addressed as ymm on the 128bit lower part. Opcode will probably be somewhat larger though.

K-regs are not too hard in their use, but I dislike the fact that they can't get fed with immediate values like general purpose registers and that I have to go immediate=>gpr=>k register or load values from memory.

The only thing that took me a while to find out (I thought I was hitting a gcc bug) is how to properly write the instruction with the proper syntax, for gcc assembly-within-c...

For example if I want to move 320 bits from memory to a zmm register it goes like this:

 "mov $0b1111111111, %%eax\n"  (10 x 1 bit = 10 x 32 bit elements)
 "kmovd %%eax, %%k1\n"
 "vmovdqu32 0(%0), %%zmm0 %{%%k1%}%{z%}\n"

The z flag is there to zero out the rest of the bits (if there was anything on zmm0).

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I have not seen any register issues with the existing vectored code. The x, y & z regs are also overlaid in the 7980XE but only the lower 256 or 128
bits can be accessed by ymm or xmm respectively. This creates a lot of overhead when an app needs to revert to smaller vectors for some operations.
Like I said there are fewer opportunities with larger vector operations.

AVX & AVX2 are also underclocked, AVX512 is underclocked more.

The K registers seem interesting. I don't fully understand them but they appear to be able to reduce the number of instructions when shuffling vector elements.

Keep in mind that it extends the registers to 32 (xmm16-xmm31 / ymm16-ymm31 / zmm16-zmm31). If register pressure is an issue, it can help. It also offers masking with K registers which might be useful in some cases.

One problem though is that avx512 gets underclocked... in a xeon system which worked around 2 - 2.1 ghz normal, and typical code execution was boosted at 2.6ghz, avx512 was running at ~1.8ghz.

Google cloud has some servers with avx512 which you can play on without buying avx512 CPUs, but they kind of suck at benchmarking due to being VMs with unstable performance (resource sharing).

Ok thank you for the information!

You conveniently left out the part that explains the legacy version.

Anyway it's virtually useless because the affected algorithms mostly have ASIC miners now or very
efficient GPU miners.

The only people who should consider using the legacy version are those who know what the're doing.
If you have to ask, don't use it.

someone can teel me what of the 2 versions is best for my CPU
AMD A10 quad-core processor A10-7300 turbo core 3.20GHz???
Thank you

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Is it just me or is Windows Defender detecting cpuminer-opt as a Trojan:Win32/Vagger!rfn malware?