Cycling over 1026 nonces is a remnant of old code not relevant now and can just lead to repeat submission of the same block increasing rejects.

Remove it.

findnonce.c

@@ -152,19 +152,17 @@ static void *postcalc_hash(void *userdata)
 	struct thr_info *thr = pcd->thr;
 	dev_blk_ctx *blk = &pcd->work->blk;
 	struct work *work = pcd->work;
-	uint32_t start = 0;
 
 	cl_uint A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H;
 	cl_uint W[16];
-	cl_uint nonce;
-	cl_uint best_g;
-	uint32_t end;
+	cl_uint nonce = 0;
 	int entry = 0;
 
+	pthread_detach(pthread_self());
 cycle:
 	while (entry < MAXBUFFERS) {
 		if (pcd->res[entry]) {
-			start = pcd->res[entry++];
+			nonce = pcd->res[entry++];
 			break;
 		}
 		entry++;
@@ -172,10 +170,6 @@ cycle:
 	if (entry == MAXBUFFERS)
 		goto out;
 
-	best_g = ~0;
-	end = start + 1026;
-
-	for (nonce = start; nonce != end; nonce+=1) {
 	A = blk->cty_a; B = blk->cty_b;
 	C = blk->cty_c; D = blk->cty_d;
 	E = blk->cty_e; F = blk->cty_f;
@@ -205,21 +199,12 @@ cycle:
 	FR(32); FR(40);
 	FR(48); PFR(56);
 
-		if (unlikely(H == 0xA41F32E7)) {
+	if (likely(H == 0xA41F32E7)) {
 		if (unlikely(submit_nonce(thr, work, nonce) == false)) {
 			applog(LOG_ERR, "Failed to submit work, exiting");
-				break;
-			}
-
-			G += 0x1f83d9ab;
-			G = ByteReverse(G);
-
-			if (G < best_g)
-				best_g = G;
-		}
+			goto out;
 		}
-
-	if (unlikely(best_g == ~0)) {
+	} else {
 		if (opt_debug)
 			applog(LOG_DEBUG, "No best_g found! Error in OpenCL code?");
 		hw_errors++;
@@ -228,7 +213,6 @@ cycle:
 	if (entry < MAXBUFFERS)
 		goto cycle;
 out:
-	pthread_detach(pthread_self());
 	free(pcd);
 	return NULL;
 }