phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Supporting AVX2/SSE2 or not with a single binary

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:09:56 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: discussions <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Supporting AVX2/SSE2 or not with a single binary

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com> wrote:
> One reason I think we see applications running without SSE/AVX2
> support is that operating systems don't want to support two versions
> of a binary, and they have to support older machines.  The Blake2 code
> I've read does not provide for a single binary that supports both - I
> have to link either to the blake2-ref code or the blake2-sse code.  My
> TwoCats code has inherited this limitation, since I used the Blake2
> code as a roadmap for figuring out how SSE2 works.  These guys over on
> StackOverflow think they've got code to detect SIMD support and allow
> a single binary to support both:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6121792/how-to-check-if-a-cpu-supports-the-sse3-instruction-set

That answer is crap.  You cannot detect whether AVX is usable using
just cpuid -- you need to use (IIRC) xgetbv as well.

On gcc 4.8 and up, function multiversioning [1] is probably the way to
go.  On Windows (if you want to support MSVC), you'll need to do
something different.  Of course, function multiversioning has the same
bug [2] and no one has fixed it yet.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning
[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55307

>
> How cool is StackOverflow?  So, is this the right way to build
> high-speed crypto binaries now days?
>
> Bill



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC