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xoto10andStéphane Nicolet 69204f0720 Smarter time management near stop limit
This patch makes Stockfish search same depth again if > 60% of optimum time is
already used, instead of trying the next iteration. The idea is that the next
iteration will generally take about the same amount of time as has already been
used in total. When we are likely to begin the last iteration, as judged by total
time taken so far > 0.6 * optimum time, searching the last depth again instead of
increasing the depth still helps the other threads in lazy SMP and prepares better
move ordering for the next moves.

STC :
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 13436 W: 2695 L: 2558 D: 8183
Ptnml(0-2): 222, 1538, 3087, 1611, 253
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e1618a761fe5f83a67dd964

LTC :
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {0.00,2.00}
Total: 32160 W: 4261 L: 4047 D: 23852
Ptnml(0-2): 211, 2988, 9448, 3135, 247
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e162ca061fe5f83a67dd96d

The code was revised as suggested by @vondele for multithreading:

STC (8 threads):
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {0.00,2.00}
Total: 16640 W: 2049 L: 1885 D: 12706
Ptnml(0-2): 119, 1369, 5158, 1557, 108
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e19826a2cc590e03c3c2f52

LTC (8 threads):
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 16536 W: 2758 L: 2629 D: 11149
Ptnml(0-2): 182, 1758, 4296, 1802, 224
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e18b91a27dab692fcf9a140

Thanks to those discussing Stockfish lazy SMP on fishcooking which made me
try this, and to @vondele for suggestions and doing related tests.

See full discussion in the pull request thread:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2482

Bench: 4586187
2020-01-12 22:37:24 +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/>.
*/
#include <cassert>
#include <algorithm> // For std::count
#include "movegen.h"
#include "search.h"
#include "thread.h"
#include "uci.h"
#include "syzygy/tbprobe.h"
#include "tt.h"
ThreadPool Threads; // Global object
/// Thread constructor launches the thread and waits until it goes to sleep
/// in idle_loop(). Note that 'searching' and 'exit' should be already set.
Thread::Thread(size_t n) : idx(n), stdThread(&Thread::idle_loop, this) {
wait_for_search_finished();
}
/// Thread destructor wakes up the thread in idle_loop() and waits
/// for its termination. Thread should be already waiting.
Thread::~Thread() {
assert(!searching);
exit = true;
start_searching();
stdThread.join();
}
/// Thread::bestMoveCount(Move move) return best move counter for the given root move
int Thread::best_move_count(Move move) {
auto rm = std::find(rootMoves.begin() + pvIdx,
rootMoves.begin() + pvLast, move);
return rm != rootMoves.begin() + pvLast ? rm->bestMoveCount : 0;
}
/// Thread::clear() reset histories, usually before a new game
void Thread::clear() {
counterMoves.fill(MOVE_NONE);
mainHistory.fill(0);
captureHistory.fill(0);
for (bool inCheck : { false, true })
for (StatsType c : { NoCaptures, Captures })
for (auto& to : continuationHistory[inCheck][c])
for (auto& h : to)
h->fill(0);
for (bool inCheck : { false, true })
for (StatsType c : { NoCaptures, Captures })
continuationHistory[inCheck][c][NO_PIECE][0]->fill(Search::CounterMovePruneThreshold - 1);
}
/// Thread::start_searching() wakes up the thread that will start the search
void Thread::start_searching() {
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lk(mutex);
searching = true;
cv.notify_one(); // Wake up the thread in idle_loop()
}
/// Thread::wait_for_search_finished() blocks on the condition variable
/// until the thread has finished searching.
void Thread::wait_for_search_finished() {
std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(mutex);
cv.wait(lk, [&]{ return !searching; });
}
/// Thread::idle_loop() is where the thread is parked, blocked on the
/// condition variable, when it has no work to do.
void Thread::idle_loop() {
// If OS already scheduled us on a different group than 0 then don't overwrite
// the choice, eventually we are one of many one-threaded processes running on
// some Windows NUMA hardware, for instance in fishtest. To make it simple,
// just check if running threads are below a threshold, in this case all this
// NUMA machinery is not needed.
if (Options["Threads"] > 8)
WinProcGroup::bindThisThread(idx);
while (true)
{
std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(mutex);
searching = false;
cv.notify_one(); // Wake up anyone waiting for search finished
cv.wait(lk, [&]{ return searching; });
if (exit)
return;
lk.unlock();
search();
}
}
/// ThreadPool::set() creates/destroys threads to match the requested number.
/// Created and launched threads will immediately go to sleep in idle_loop.
/// Upon resizing, threads are recreated to allow for binding if necessary.
void ThreadPool::set(size_t requested) {
if (size() > 0) { // destroy any existing thread(s)
main()->wait_for_search_finished();
while (size() > 0)
delete back(), pop_back();
}
if (requested > 0) { // create new thread(s)
push_back(new MainThread(0));
while (size() < requested)
push_back(new Thread(size()));
clear();
// Reallocate the hash with the new threadpool size
TT.resize(Options["Hash"]);
// Init thread number dependent search params.
Search::init();
}
}
/// ThreadPool::clear() sets threadPool data to initial values.
void ThreadPool::clear() {
for (Thread* th : *this)
th->clear();
main()->callsCnt = 0;
main()->previousScore = VALUE_INFINITE;
main()->previousTimeReduction = 1.0;
}
/// ThreadPool::start_thinking() wakes up main thread waiting in idle_loop() and
/// returns immediately. Main thread will wake up other threads and start the search.
void ThreadPool::start_thinking(Position& pos, StateListPtr& states,
const Search::LimitsType& limits, bool ponderMode) {
main()->wait_for_search_finished();
main()->stopOnPonderhit = stop = false;
increaseDepth = true;
main()->ponder = ponderMode;
Search::Limits = limits;
Search::RootMoves rootMoves;
for (const auto& m : MoveList<LEGAL>(pos))
if ( limits.searchmoves.empty()
|| std::count(limits.searchmoves.begin(), limits.searchmoves.end(), m))
rootMoves.emplace_back(m);
if (!rootMoves.empty())
Tablebases::rank_root_moves(pos, rootMoves);
// After ownership transfer 'states' becomes empty, so if we stop the search
// and call 'go' again without setting a new position states.get() == NULL.
assert(states.get() || setupStates.get());
if (states.get())
setupStates = std::move(states); // Ownership transfer, states is now empty
// We use Position::set() to set root position across threads. But there are
// some StateInfo fields (previous, pliesFromNull, capturedPiece) that cannot
// be deduced from a fen string, so set() clears them and to not lose the info
// we need to backup and later restore setupStates->back(). Note that setupStates
// is shared by threads but is accessed in read-only mode.
StateInfo tmp = setupStates->back();
for (Thread* th : *this)
{
th->nodes = th->tbHits = th->nmpMinPly = 0;
th->rootDepth = th->completedDepth = 0;
th->rootMoves = rootMoves;
th->rootPos.set(pos.fen(), pos.is_chess960(), &setupStates->back(), th);
}
setupStates->back() = tmp;
main()->start_searching();
}