X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fthread.h;h=04e9a370cb9a5604ef7afa4a586263a3d594e28c;hp=26aed392fd34bf1977eb7f1edf7366ffbad67787;hb=950c8436edc50857b83eb3e0cbaca06407764655;hpb=eb50793cffd8ac059450a76760e2c3f8ae9cc931

diff --git a/src/thread.h b/src/thread.h
index 26aed392..04e9a370 100644
--- a/src/thread.h
+++ b/src/thread.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
   Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
   Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
-  Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
+  Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
 
   Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -29,8 +29,14 @@
 #include "position.h"
 #include "search.h"
 
-const int MAX_THREADS = 128;
-const int MAX_SPLITPOINTS_PER_THREAD = 8;
+struct Thread;
+
+const size_t MAX_THREADS = 128;
+const size_t MAX_SPLITPOINTS_PER_THREAD = 8;
+const size_t MAX_SLAVES_PER_SPLITPOINT = 4;
+
+/// Mutex and ConditionVariable struct are wrappers of the low level locking
+/// machinery and are modeled after the corresponding C++11 classes.
 
 struct Mutex {
   Mutex() { lock_init(l); }
@@ -57,13 +63,15 @@ private:
   WaitCondition c;
 };
 
-struct Thread;
+
+/// SplitPoint struct stores information shared by the threads searching in
+/// parallel below the same split point. It is populated at splitting time.
 
 struct SplitPoint {
 
   // Const data after split point has been setup
   const Position* pos;
-  const Search::Stack* ss;
+  Search::Stack* ss;
   Thread* masterThread;
   Depth depth;
   Value beta;
@@ -74,7 +82,7 @@ struct SplitPoint {
   MovePicker* movePicker;
   SplitPoint* parentSplitPoint;
 
-  // Shared data
+  // Shared variable data
   Mutex mutex;
   std::bitset<MAX_THREADS> slavesMask;
   volatile bool allSlavesSearching;
@@ -117,18 +125,18 @@ struct Thread : public ThreadBase {
   bool cutoff_occurred() const;
   bool available_to(const Thread* master) const;
 
-  void split(Position& pos, const Search::Stack* ss, Value alpha, Value beta, Value* bestValue, Move* bestMove,
+  void split(Position& pos, Search::Stack* ss, Value alpha, Value beta, Value* bestValue, Move* bestMove,
              Depth depth, int moveCount, MovePicker* movePicker, int nodeType, bool cutNode);
 
   SplitPoint splitPoints[MAX_SPLITPOINTS_PER_THREAD];
+  Pawns::Table pawnsTable;
   Material::Table materialTable;
   Endgames endgames;
-  Pawns::Table pawnsTable;
   Position* activePosition;
   size_t idx;
   int maxPly;
   SplitPoint* volatile activeSplitPoint;
-  volatile int splitPointsSize;
+  volatile size_t splitPointsSize;
   volatile bool searching;
 };
 
@@ -143,10 +151,13 @@ struct MainThread : public Thread {
 };
 
 struct TimerThread : public ThreadBase {
+
+  static const int Resolution = 5; // Millisec between two check_time() calls
+
   TimerThread() : run(false) {}
   virtual void idle_loop();
+
   bool run;
-  static const int Resolution = 5; // msec between two check_time() calls
 };
 
 
@@ -156,10 +167,10 @@ struct TimerThread : public ThreadBase {
 
 struct ThreadPool : public std::vector<Thread*> {
 
-  void init(); // No c'tor and d'tor, threads rely on globals that should
-  void exit(); // be initialized and are valid during the whole thread lifetime.
+  void init(); // No c'tor and d'tor, threads rely on globals that should be
+  void exit(); // initialized and are valid during the whole thread lifetime.
 
-  MainThread* main() { return static_cast<MainThread*>((*this)[0]); }
+  MainThread* main() { return static_cast<MainThread*>(at(0)); }
   void read_uci_options();
   Thread* available_slave(const Thread* master) const;
   void wait_for_think_finished();