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Make the getting of work asynchronous from the mining threads requests by always having one work item queued.

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This prevents drops in hash rates when getting work from a pool that is slow to respond.
Use a local static struct work in get_work that is used to queue one extra work item.
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Con Kolivas 2011-06-25 13:40:42 +10:00
parent 0cef8f8da4
commit f6486efb71
1 changed files with 51 additions and 16 deletions
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cpu-miner.c
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@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ int longpoll_thr_id;
struct work_restart *work_restart = NULL;
pthread_mutex_t time_lock;
static pthread_mutex_t hash_lock;
static pthread_mutex_t get_lock;
static double total_mhashes_done;
static struct timeval total_tv_start, total_tv_end;
static int accepted, rejected;
@ -591,35 +592,67 @@ static void hashmeter(int thr_id, struct timeval *diff,
total_mhashes_done / total_secs, accepted, rejected);
}
static bool get_work(struct thr_info *thr, struct work *work)
/* Since we always have one extra work item queued, set the thread id to 0
* for all the work and just give the work to the first thread that requests
* work */
static bool get_work(struct work *work)
{
static struct work *work_heap = NULL;
struct thr_info *thr = &thr_info[0];
struct workio_cmd *wc;
struct work *work_heap;
bool ret = false;
/* fill out work request message */
wc = calloc(1, sizeof(*wc));
if (!wc)
return false;
if (unlikely(!wc))
goto out;
wc->cmd = WC_GET_WORK;
wc->thr = thr;
/* send work request to workio thread */
if (!tq_push(thr_info[work_thr_id].q, wc)) {
if (unlikely(!tq_push(thr_info[work_thr_id].q, wc))) {
workio_cmd_free(wc);
return false;
goto out;
}
/* wait for response, a unit of work */
work_heap = tq_pop(thr->q, NULL);
if (!work_heap)
return false;
/* work_heap is a static var so it is protected by get_lock */
pthread_mutex_lock(&get_lock);
if (likely(work_heap)) {
memcpy(work, work_heap, sizeof(*work));
/* Wait for next response, a unit of work - it should be queued */
free(work_heap);
work_heap = tq_pop(thr->q, NULL);
} else {
/* wait for 1st response, or 1st response after failure */
work_heap = tq_pop(thr->q, NULL);
if (unlikely(!work_heap))
goto out_unlock;
/* copy returned work into storage provided by caller */
memcpy(work, work_heap, sizeof(*work));
free(work_heap);
/* send for another work request for the next time get_work
* is called. */
wc = calloc(1, sizeof(*wc));
if (unlikely(!wc)) {
free(work_heap);
work_heap = NULL;
goto out_unlock;
}
return true;
wc->cmd = WC_GET_WORK;
wc->thr = thr;
if (unlikely(!tq_push(thr_info[work_thr_id].q, wc))) {
workio_cmd_free(wc);
free(work_heap);
work_heap = NULL;
goto out_unlock;
}
}
ret = true;
out_unlock:
pthread_mutex_unlock(&get_lock);
out:
return ret;
}
static bool submit_work(struct thr_info *thr, const struct work *work_in)
@ -689,7 +722,7 @@ static void *miner_thread(void *userdata)
bool rc;
/* obtain new work from internal workio thread */
if (unlikely(!get_work(mythr, &work))) {
if (unlikely(!get_work(&work))) {
applog(LOG_ERR, "work retrieval failed, exiting "
"mining thread %d", mythr->id);
goto out;
@ -875,7 +908,7 @@ static void *gpuminer_thread(void *userdata)
if (need_work) {
gettimeofday(&tv_workstart, NULL);
/* obtain new work from internal workio thread */
if (unlikely(!get_work(mythr, work))) {
if (unlikely(!get_work(work))) {
applog(LOG_ERR, "work retrieval failed, exiting "
"gpu mining thread %d", mythr->id);
goto out;
@ -1238,6 +1271,8 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
return 1;
if (unlikely(pthread_mutex_init(&hash_lock, NULL)))
return 1;
if (unlikely(pthread_mutex_init(&get_lock, NULL)))
return 1;
#ifdef HAVE_SYSLOG_H
if (use_syslog)