Use spinlock instead of mutex for Threads and SplitPoint

[stockfish] / src / thread.h

diff --git a/src/thread.h b/src/thread.h
index 3f902dc17b794a35250f87759e932dd9f0607bd4..f8e65941f0d6beefa96a95aecc6195117978cca5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/thread.h
+++ b/src/thread.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #ifndef THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 #define THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 
+#include <atomic>
 #include <bitset>
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <mutex>
@@ -34,8 +35,22 @@
 
 struct Thread;
 
-const int MAX_THREADS = 128;
-const int MAX_SPLITPOINTS_PER_THREAD = 8;
+const size_t MAX_THREADS = 128;
+const size_t MAX_SPLITPOINTS_PER_THREAD = 8;
+const size_t MAX_SLAVES_PER_SPLITPOINT = 4;
+
+/// Spinlock class wraps low level atomic operations to provide spin lock functionality
+
+class Spinlock {
+
+  std::atomic_flag lock;
+
+public:
+  Spinlock() { std::atomic_flag_clear(&lock); }
+  void acquire() { while (lock.test_and_set(std::memory_order_acquire)) {} }
+  void release() { lock.clear(std::memory_order_release); }
+};
+
 
 /// SplitPoint struct stores information shared by the threads searching in
 /// parallel below the same split point. It is populated at splitting time.
@@ -45,7 +60,7 @@ struct SplitPoint {
   // Const data after split point has been setup
   const Position* pos;
   Search::Stack* ss;
-  Thread* masterThread;
+  Thread* master;
   Depth depth;
   Value beta;
   int nodeType;
@@ -56,7 +71,7 @@ struct SplitPoint {
   SplitPoint* parentSplitPoint;
 
   // Shared variable data
-  std::mutex mutex;
+  Spinlock spinlock;
   std::bitset<MAX_THREADS> slavesMask;
   volatile bool allSlavesSearching;
   volatile uint64_t nodes;
@@ -108,7 +123,7 @@ struct Thread : public ThreadBase {
   size_t idx;
   int maxPly;
   SplitPoint* volatile activeSplitPoint;
-  volatile int splitPointsSize;
+  volatile size_t splitPointsSize;
   volatile bool searching;
 };
 
@@ -147,7 +162,7 @@ struct ThreadPool : public std::vector<Thread*> {
   void start_thinking(const Position&, const Search::LimitsType&, Search::StateStackPtr&);
 
   Depth minimumSplitDepth;
-  std::mutex mutex;
+  Spinlock spinlock;
   std::condition_variable sleepCondition;
   TimerThread* timer;
 };