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Stockfish/src/tt.cpp
cj5716 d47aa639bd Tweak TT aging and replacement strategies
We change the definition of "age" from "age of this position" to "age of this TT entry".
In this way, despite being on the same position, when we save into TT, we always prefer the new entry as compared to the old one.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 152256 W: 39597 L: 39110 D: 73549
Ptnml(0-2): 556, 17562, 39398, 18063, 549
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6620faee3fe04ce4cefbf215

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 51564 W: 13242 L: 12895 D: 25427
Ptnml(0-2): 24, 5464, 14463, 5803, 28
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66231ab53fe04ce4cefc153e

closes #5184

Bench 1479416
2024-04-21 14:50:04 +02:00

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/*
Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2024 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Stockfish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include "tt.h"
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdint>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>
#include "misc.h"
namespace Stockfish {
// Populates the TTEntry with a new node's data, possibly
// overwriting an old position. The update is not atomic and can be racy.
void TTEntry::save(
Key k, Value v, bool pv, Bound b, Depth d, Move m, Value ev, uint8_t generation8) {
// Preserve any existing move for the same position
if (m || uint16_t(k) != key16)
move16 = m;
// Overwrite less valuable entries (cheapest checks first)
if (b == BOUND_EXACT || uint16_t(k) != key16 || d - DEPTH_OFFSET + 2 * pv > depth8 - 4
|| relative_age(generation8))
{
assert(d > DEPTH_OFFSET);
assert(d < 256 + DEPTH_OFFSET);
key16 = uint16_t(k);
depth8 = uint8_t(d - DEPTH_OFFSET);
genBound8 = uint8_t(generation8 | uint8_t(pv) << 2 | b);
value16 = int16_t(v);
eval16 = int16_t(ev);
}
}
uint8_t TTEntry::relative_age(const uint8_t generation8) const {
// Due to our packed storage format for generation and its cyclic
// nature we add GENERATION_CYCLE (256 is the modulus, plus what
// is needed to keep the unrelated lowest n bits from affecting
// the result) to calculate the entry age correctly even after
// generation8 overflows into the next cycle.
return (TranspositionTable::GENERATION_CYCLE + generation8 - genBound8)
& TranspositionTable::GENERATION_MASK;
}
// Sets the size of the transposition table,
// measured in megabytes. Transposition table consists
// of clusters and each cluster consists of ClusterSize number of TTEntry.
void TranspositionTable::resize(size_t mbSize, int threadCount) {
aligned_large_pages_free(table);
clusterCount = mbSize * 1024 * 1024 / sizeof(Cluster);
table = static_cast<Cluster*>(aligned_large_pages_alloc(clusterCount * sizeof(Cluster)));
if (!table)
{
std::cerr << "Failed to allocate " << mbSize << "MB for transposition table." << std::endl;
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
clear(threadCount);
}
// Initializes the entire transposition table to zero,
// in a multi-threaded way.
void TranspositionTable::clear(size_t threadCount) {
std::vector<std::thread> threads;
for (size_t idx = 0; idx < size_t(threadCount); ++idx)
{
threads.emplace_back([this, idx, threadCount]() {
// Thread binding gives faster search on systems with a first-touch policy
if (threadCount > 8)
WinProcGroup::bind_this_thread(idx);
// Each thread will zero its part of the hash table
const size_t stride = size_t(clusterCount / threadCount), start = size_t(stride * idx),
len = idx != size_t(threadCount) - 1 ? stride : clusterCount - start;
std::memset(&table[start], 0, len * sizeof(Cluster));
});
}
for (std::thread& th : threads)
th.join();
}
// Looks up the current position in the transposition
// table. It returns true and a pointer to the TTEntry if the position is found.
// Otherwise, it returns false and a pointer to an empty or least valuable TTEntry
// to be replaced later. The replace value of an entry is calculated as its depth
// minus 8 times its relative age. TTEntry t1 is considered more valuable than
// TTEntry t2 if its replace value is greater than that of t2.
TTEntry* TranspositionTable::probe(const Key key, bool& found) const {
TTEntry* const tte = first_entry(key);
const uint16_t key16 = uint16_t(key); // Use the low 16 bits as key inside the cluster
for (int i = 0; i < ClusterSize; ++i)
if (tte[i].key16 == key16 || !tte[i].depth8)
return found = bool(tte[i].depth8), &tte[i];
// Find an entry to be replaced according to the replacement strategy
TTEntry* replace = tte;
for (int i = 1; i < ClusterSize; ++i)
if (replace->depth8 - replace->relative_age(generation8) * 2
> tte[i].depth8 - tte[i].relative_age(generation8) * 2)
replace = &tte[i];
return found = false, replace;
}
// Returns an approximation of the hashtable
// occupation during a search. The hash is x permill full, as per UCI protocol.
// Only counts entries which match the current generation.
int TranspositionTable::hashfull() const {
int cnt = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
for (int j = 0; j < ClusterSize; ++j)
cnt += table[i].entry[j].depth8
&& (table[i].entry[j].genBound8 & GENERATION_MASK) == generation8;
return cnt / ClusterSize;
}
} // namespace Stockfish