Re: further improved phatk_dia kernel for Phoenix + SDK 2.6

Tried out diakgcn on my 6870. All tests at aggression 12 and done over very short time periods, unless said otherwise.

Results:

2.5:
phatk_dia, WORKSIZE=128, VECTORS: 282 MHps (best one from previous test)
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=128, VECTORS: 278 MHps
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=128, VECTORS2: 279 MHps
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=64, VECTORS: 278 MHps
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=64, VECTORS2: 279 MHps
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=128, VECTORS2, AGGRESSION=10: 278 MHps (spiked up to 282 at one point.....)
diakgcn, WORKSIZE=128, VECTORS2, AGGRESSION=5: 275 MHps

2.6: (Sorry, did poor documentation here. Only listed best results If asked for I will document this better later)
phatk_dia: 272 MHps
diakgcn: 260MHps

tl;dr: diakgcn is currently slower for 6870

Thanks for your results, that behaviour was awaited ... now it's confirmed. Well DiaKGCN is not finished, so perhaps it will get better for older cards over time

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Dia

Wouldn't it be easier to separate the kernels out for each of the 5xxx, 6xxx, and 7xxx series cards instead of trying to make a one size fits all. Is it possible to test at start up and exclude cards that a certain kernel isn't designed to run on? I hate to see you wasting time supporting the older cards with new kernels.

Easy answer, I just focused on GCN performance with DiaKGCN, that it runs on VLIW4/5 is just nice to have. I won't spent anymore time in optimising performance of phatk_dia or DiaKGCN for older cards. I even don't know for what I do all this, because this one (phatk_dia) seems to not be faster really for anyone + no one cares to support development via a small donation. People seem to just donate something if they gain 10+ MH/s over another kernel ... my hard work that was put into a specific version is not paid any attention to it seems :-/.

Dia

PS.: To discuss DiaKGCN further please use https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=61406.0