From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:15:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Get rid of timer thread
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c9205860c5ab0e4f3180298e3f7082be259772c;hp=9c9205860c5ab0e4f3180298e3f7082be259772c

Get rid of timer thread

Unfortunately std::condition_variable::wait_for()
is not accurate in general case and the timer thread
can wake up also after tens or even hundreds of
millisecs after time has elapsded. CPU load, process
priorities, number of concurrent threads, even from
other processes, will have effect upon it.

Even official documentation says: "This function may
block for longer than timeout_duration due to scheduling
or resource contention delays."

So retire timer and use a polling scheme based on a
local thread counter that counts search() calls and
a small trick to keep polling frequency constant,
independently from the number of threads.

Tested for no regression at very fast TC 2+0.05 th 7:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 32969 W: 6720 L: 6620 D: 19629

TC 2+0.05 th 1:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 7765 W: 1917 L: 1765 D: 4083

And at STC TC, both single thread
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 15587 W: 3036 L: 2905 D: 9646

And with 7 threads
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 8149 W: 1367 L: 1227 D: 5555

bench: 8639247
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