This setting allows to set the GPU intensity value directly without any modifiers, it does not
get any more raw than this! Look at the xintensity description raw for examples of regular
intensity values. You can also set this value through the ncurses interface by pressing:
G -> A -> select device id -> enter value.
Minor xintensity code cleanup as well.
Conflicts:
driver-opencl.c
miner.h
sgminer.c
All of this is credited to ArGee of RGMiner, he did the initial ground work for this setting.
This new setting allows for a much finer grained intensity setting and also opens up for dual gpu threads on devices not previously able to. Note: make sure to use lower thread-concurrency values when you increase cpu threads.
Intensity is currently used to spawn GPU threads as a simple 2^value setting.
I:13 = 8192 threads
I:15 = 32768 threads
I:17 = 131072 threads
I:18 = 262144 threads
I:19 = 524288 threads
I:20 = 1048576 threads
Notice how the higher settings increase thread count tremendously.
Now enter the xintensity setting (Yes, I am a genius with my naming convention!).
It is simply a shader multiplier, obviously based on the amount of shaders you got on a card, this should allow the same value to scale with different card models.
6970 with 1536 shaders: xI:64 = 98304 threads
R9 280X with 2048 shaders: xI:64 = 131072 threads
R9 290 with 2560 shaders: xI:64 = 180224 threads
R9 290X with 2816 shaders: xI:64 = 163840 threads
6970 with 1536 shaders: xI:300 = 460800 threads
R9 280X with 2048 shaders: xI:300 = 614400 threads
R9 290 with 2560 shaders: xI:300 = 768000 threads
R9 290X with 2816 shaders: xI:300 = 844800 threads
It's now much easier to control thread intensity and it potentially allows for a uniform way of setting the intensity on your system. I'm very interested in constructive feedback, as I do not have access to a lot of different card models.
This change has been tested on 6970, R9 290, R9 290X - all with equal or a little better speeds than regular intensity setting after a little tuning, but your mileage may vary. Don't fret it, if this doesn't work for you, the regular intensity setting is still available.
Conflicts:
driver-opencl.c
sgminer.c
It is exactly what it says, now you can finally put that Frankenrig configuration in one file.
The parameter follows the same design as gpu-engine and gpu-memclock.
This patch is an initial attempt to re-structure cgminer source
code from its monolithic design (with nearly all code being
concentrated in main.c) to a more modular one.
In this first stage, the conditionally compiled functions for
GPU and CPU mining were extracted into dedicated files:
* device-cpu.h and device-cpu.c covering WANT_CPUMINE functions
* device-gpu.h and device-gpu.c covering HAVE_OPENCL functions
The main.c file is left untouched as reference, while the
remainder without the extracted parts is located in cgminer.c.
The Makefile.am has been updated to use the re-structured
source files for the build.
Above pure re-structuring *NO* functional modifications were
made. The sources were tested to compile and run on on a
current Linux system with working CPU and GPU mining
(Bitforce not tested due to loack of hardware).
Jan Berdajs