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authorpsychocrypt <psychocrypt@users.noreply.github.com>2017-04-20 21:30:59 +0200
committerpsychocrypt <psychocrypt@users.noreply.github.com>2017-04-20 21:46:19 +0200
commitfdcf349cbb4bb52f85f736b69d6d40324d364fc9 (patch)
treeb9c726b4475508e14f3233cfaee4237928eeaed3 /crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp
parentddfcbd3c4ab9a37c06598a6e4898ed54d2922236 (diff)
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speed improvement
Increase the performance for systems without huge memory pages to the performance with huge pages. Use 2 MiB alignment for memory allocations.
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp')
-rw-r--r--crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp b/crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp
index 6955dc1..bbcff34 100644
--- a/crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp
+++ b/crypto/cryptonight_common.cpp
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ cryptonight_ctx* cryptonight_alloc_ctx(size_t use_fast_mem, size_t use_mlock, al
if(use_fast_mem == 0)
{
- ptr->long_state = (uint8_t*)_mm_malloc(MEMORY, 4096);
+ // use 2MiB aligned memory
+ ptr->long_state = (uint8_t*)_mm_malloc(MEMORY, 2*1024*1024);
ptr->ctx_info[0] = 0;
ptr->ctx_info[1] = 0;
return ptr;
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