Ya, the default affinity was choosing virtual threads instead physical ones. Damn! 6MH/s!
All Ryzen users should take note. Intel chooses one thread per core before using HT.
In fact. Joblo, is there an updated algo list that receive boost from SHA hardware acceleration? I found a little list some pages before:
sha256t, lbry, skein, myr-groestl, m7m.
Are there more algos?
I converted all of them at the time and I don't recall any new algos that can use it.
What about nist5? Can you try that again? I'd like to understand what's going on there.
I get good performance on my Intel.
I reduced overclock (to keep everything cold). New results with NIST5:
NIST5 4way 8 threads with --cpu-affinity 0x5555
[2017-12-17 20:33:17] nist5 block 14635, diff 14699.054
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #6: 2097.15 kH, 209.42 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #2: 2097.15 kH, 207.48 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #5: 2097.15 kH, 205.79 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #7: 2097.15 kH, 205.61 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #4: 2097.15 kH, 204.96 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #1: 2097.15 kH, 204.46 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #0: 2097.15 kH, 204.01 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:33:27] CPU #3: 2097.15 kH, 199.72 kH/s
NIST5 16 threads
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] nist5 block 14649, diff 22837.326
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #2: 667.71 kH, 121.83 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #3: 672.92 kH, 122.76 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #0: 454.52 kH, 83.08 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #1: 653.82 kH, 119.54 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #14: 647.14 kH, 118.14 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #7: 657.04 kH, 119.95 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #6: 635.59 kH, 116.06 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #11: 681.85 kH, 124.55 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #5: 682.78 kH, 124.85 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #4: 570.23 kH, 104.24 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #12: 565.09 kH, 103.26 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #10: 681.59 kH, 124.53 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #8: 617.07 kH, 112.53 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #9: 684.27 kH, 124.89 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #15: 669.73 kH, 122.23 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:47:55] CPU #13: 642.05 kH, 117.12 kH/s
NIST5 AES-AVX2 8 threads with --cpu-affinity 0x5555
[2017-12-17 20:59:30] nist5 block 14655, diff 22762.164
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #4: 2097.15 kH, 369.94 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #5: 2097.15 kH, 365.38 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #7: 2097.15 kH, 365.42 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #6: 2097.15 kH, 365.26 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #3: 2097.15 kH, 365.13 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #0: 2097.15 kH, 359.60 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #1: 2097.15 kH, 359.14 kH/s
[2017-12-17 20:59:36] CPU #2: 2097.15 kH, 356.60 kH/s
EDIT1:
NIST5 AES-AVX 8 threads with --cpu-affinity 0x5555
[2017-12-17 21:02:19] nist5 block 14657, diff 22797.808
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #6: 2097.15 kH, 374.14 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #5: 2097.15 kH, 373.53 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #2: 2097.15 kH, 370.56 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #7: 2097.15 kH, 369.28 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #4: 2097.15 kH, 367.82 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #0: 2097.15 kH, 367.53 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #1: 2097.15 kH, 365.98 kH/s
[2017-12-17 21:02:26] CPU #3: 2097.15 kH, 365.38 kH/s
EDIT2:
what do you need?
Wich algos are affected by SHA acceleration?