From 4b52f44054252b0f6ac379e2b743b12e2b06f3fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:49:34 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update news. --- NEWS | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index eaf283c9..bb77f3bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,36 @@ +Version 1.5.1 + +- Two redraws in a row cause a crash in old libncurses so just do one redraw +using the main window. +- Don't adjust hash_div only up for GPUs. Disable hash_div adjustment for GPUs. +- Only free the thread structures if the thread still exists. +- Update both windows separately, but not at the same time to prevent the double +refresh crash that old libncurses has. Do the window resize check only when +about to redraw the log window to minimise ncurses cpu usage. +- Abstract out the decay time function and use it to make hash_div a rolling +average so it doesn't change too abruptly and divide work in chunks large enough +to guarantee they won't overlap. +- Sanity check to prove locking. +- Don't take more than one lock at a time. +- Make threads report out when they're queueing a request and report if they've +failed. +- Make cpu mining work submission asynchronous as well. +- Properly detect stale work based on time from staging and discard instead of +handing on, but be more lax about how long work can be divided for up to the +scantime. +- Do away with queueing work separately at the start and let each thread grab +its own work as soon as it's ready. +- Don't put an extra work item in the queue as each new device thread will do so +itself. +- Make sure to decrease queued count if we discard the work. +- Attribute split work as local work generation. +- If work has been cloned it is already at the head of the list and when being +reinserted into the queue it should be placed back at the head of the list. +- Dividing work is like the work is never removed at all so treat it as such. +However the queued bool needs to be reset to ensure we *can* request more work +even if we didn't initially. + + Version 1.5.0 - July 26, 2011 - Increase efficiency of slow mining threads such as CPU miners dramatically. Do