Allow a slave to 'late join' another splitpoint

Instead of waiting to be allocated, actively search
for another split point to join when finishes its
search. Also modify split conditions.

This patch has been tested with 7 threads SMP and
passed both STC:

LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 2885 W: 519 L: 410 D: 1956

And a reduced-LTC at  25+0.05
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 4401 W: 684 L: 566 D: 3151

Was then retested against regression in 3 thread case
at standard LTC of  60+0.05:

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-4.00,0.00]
Total: 40809 W: 5446 L: 5406 D: 29957

bench: 8802105
This commit is contained in:
Joona Kiiski
2014-05-03 18:29:31 +01:00
committed by Marco Costalba
parent 8f6a494ad7
commit f6e98a924a
3 changed files with 53 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct SplitPoint {
// Shared data
Mutex mutex;
std::bitset<MAX_THREADS> slavesMask;
volatile bool allowLatejoin;
volatile uint64_t nodes;
volatile Value alpha;
volatile Value bestValue;
@@ -113,8 +114,9 @@ struct Thread : public ThreadBase {
Thread();
virtual void idle_loop();
bool attempt_to_latejoin();
bool cutoff_occurred() const;
bool available_to(const Thread* master) const;
bool available_to(const Thread* master, bool latejoin) const;
template <bool Fake>
void split(Position& pos, const Search::Stack* ss, Value alpha, Value beta, Value* bestValue, Move* bestMove,