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Sami KiminkiandJoost VandeVondele 39437f4e55 Advise the kernel to use huge pages (Linux)
Align the TT allocation by 2M to make it huge page friendly and advise the
kernel to use huge pages.

Benchmarks on my i7-8700K (6C/12T) box: (3 runs per bench per config)

                    vanilla (nps)               hugepages (nps)              avg
==================================================================================
bench             | 3012490  3024364  3036331   3071052  3067544  3071052    +1.5%
bench 16 12 20    | 19237932 19050166 19085315  19266346 19207025 19548758   +1.1%
bench 16384 12 20 | 18182313 18371581 18336838  19381275 19738012 19620225   +7.0%

On my box, huge pages have a significant perf impact when using a big
hash size. They also speed up TT initialization big time:

                                  vanilla (s)  huge pages (s)  speed-up
=======================================================================
time stockfish bench 16384 1 1  | 5.37         1.48            3.6x

In practice, huge pages with auto-defrag may always be enabled in the
system, in which case this patch has no effect. This
depends on the values in /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
and /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2463

No functional change
2020-01-27 11:16:10 +01:00

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/*
Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, 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
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/>.
*/
#ifndef MISC_H_INCLUDED
#define MISC_H_INCLUDED
#include <cassert>
#include <chrono>
#include <ostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "types.h"
const std::string engine_info(bool to_uci = false);
const std::string compiler_info();
void prefetch(void* addr);
void start_logger(const std::string& fname);
void* aligned_ttmem_alloc(size_t size, void** mem);
void dbg_hit_on(bool b);
void dbg_hit_on(bool c, bool b);
void dbg_mean_of(int v);
void dbg_print();
typedef std::chrono::milliseconds::rep TimePoint; // A value in milliseconds
static_assert(sizeof(TimePoint) == sizeof(int64_t), "TimePoint should be 64 bits");
inline TimePoint now() {
return std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>
(std::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count();
}
template<class Entry, int Size>
struct HashTable {
Entry* operator[](Key key) { return &table[(uint32_t)key & (Size - 1)]; }
private:
std::vector<Entry> table = std::vector<Entry>(Size); // Allocate on the heap
};
enum SyncCout { IO_LOCK, IO_UNLOCK };
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, SyncCout);
#define sync_cout std::cout << IO_LOCK
#define sync_endl std::endl << IO_UNLOCK
/// xorshift64star Pseudo-Random Number Generator
/// This class is based on original code written and dedicated
/// to the public domain by Sebastiano Vigna (2014).
/// It has the following characteristics:
///
/// - Outputs 64-bit numbers
/// - Passes Dieharder and SmallCrush test batteries
/// - Does not require warm-up, no zeroland to escape
/// - Internal state is a single 64-bit integer
/// - Period is 2^64 - 1
/// - Speed: 1.60 ns/call (Core i7 @3.40GHz)
///
/// For further analysis see
/// <http://vigna.di.unimi.it/ftp/papers/xorshift.pdf>
class PRNG {
uint64_t s;
uint64_t rand64() {
s ^= s >> 12, s ^= s << 25, s ^= s >> 27;
return s * 2685821657736338717LL;
}
public:
PRNG(uint64_t seed) : s(seed) { assert(seed); }
template<typename T> T rand() { return T(rand64()); }
/// Special generator used to fast init magic numbers.
/// Output values only have 1/8th of their bits set on average.
template<typename T> T sparse_rand()
{ return T(rand64() & rand64() & rand64()); }
};
/// Under Windows it is not possible for a process to run on more than one
/// logical processor group. This usually means to be limited to use max 64
/// cores. To overcome this, some special platform specific API should be
/// called to set group affinity for each thread. Original code from Texel by
/// Peter Österlund.
namespace WinProcGroup {
void bindThisThread(size_t idx);
}
#endif // #ifndef MISC_H_INCLUDED