stockfish/src/tt.cpp

/*
  Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
  Copyright (C) 2004-2020 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)

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*/

#include <cstring>   // For std::memset
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

#include "bitboard.h"
#include "misc.h"
#include "thread.h"
#include "tt.h"
#include "uci.h"

TranspositionTable TT; // Our global transposition table

/// TTEntry::save() populates the TTEntry with a new node's data, possibly
/// overwriting an old position. Update is not atomic and can be racy.

void TTEntry::save(Key k, Value v, bool pv, Bound b, Depth d, Move m, Value ev) {

  // Preserve any existing move for the same position
  if (m || (uint16_t)k != key16)
      move16 = (uint16_t)m;

  // Overwrite less valuable entries (cheapest checks first)
  if (b == BOUND_EXACT
      || (uint16_t)k != key16
      || d - DEPTH_OFFSET > depth8 - 4)
  {
      assert(d > DEPTH_OFFSET);
      assert(d < 256 + DEPTH_OFFSET);

      key16     = (uint16_t)k;
      depth8    = (uint8_t)(d - DEPTH_OFFSET);
      genBound8 = (uint8_t)(TT.generation8 | uint8_t(pv) << 2 | b);
      value16   = (int16_t)v;
      eval16    = (int16_t)ev;
  }
}


/// TranspositionTable::resize() sets the size of the transposition table,
/// measured in megabytes. Transposition table consists of a power of 2 number
/// of clusters and each cluster consists of ClusterSize number of TTEntry.

void TranspositionTable::resize(size_t mbSize) {

  Threads.main()->wait_for_search_finished();

  aligned_large_pages_free(table);

  clusterCount = mbSize * 1024 * 1024 / sizeof(Cluster);

  table = static_cast<Cluster*>(aligned_large_pages_alloc(clusterCount * sizeof(Cluster)));
  if (!table)
  {
      std::cerr << "Failed to allocate " << mbSize
                << "MB for transposition table." << std::endl;
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

  clear();
}


/// TranspositionTable::clear() initializes the entire transposition table to zero,
//  in a multi-threaded way.

void TranspositionTable::clear() {

  std::vector<std::thread> threads;

  for (size_t idx = 0; idx < Options["Threads"]; ++idx)
  {
      threads.emplace_back([this, idx]() {

          // Thread binding gives faster search on systems with a first-touch policy
          if (Options["Threads"] > 8)
              WinProcGroup::bindThisThread(idx);

          // Each thread will zero its part of the hash table
          const size_t stride = size_t(clusterCount / Options["Threads"]),
                       start  = size_t(stride * idx),
                       len    = idx != Options["Threads"] - 1 ?
                                stride : clusterCount - start;

          std::memset(&table[start], 0, len * sizeof(Cluster));
      });
  }

  for (std::thread& th : threads)
      th.join();
}


/// TranspositionTable::probe() looks up the current position in the transposition
/// table. It returns true and a pointer to the TTEntry if the position is found.
/// Otherwise, it returns false and a pointer to an empty or least valuable TTEntry
/// to be replaced later. The replace value of an entry is calculated as its depth
/// minus 8 times its relative age. TTEntry t1 is considered more valuable than
/// TTEntry t2 if its replace value is greater than that of t2.

TTEntry* TranspositionTable::probe(const Key key, bool& found) const {

  TTEntry* const tte = first_entry(key);
  const uint16_t key16 = (uint16_t)key;  // Use the low 16 bits as key inside the cluster

  for (int i = 0; i < ClusterSize; ++i)
      if (tte[i].key16 == key16 || !tte[i].depth8)
      {
          tte[i].genBound8 = uint8_t(generation8 | (tte[i].genBound8 & 0x7)); // Refresh

          return found = (bool)tte[i].depth8, &tte[i];
      }

  // Find an entry to be replaced according to the replacement strategy
  TTEntry* replace = tte;
  for (int i = 1; i < ClusterSize; ++i)
      // Due to our packed storage format for generation and its cyclic
      // nature we add 263 (256 is the modulus plus 7 to keep the unrelated
      // lowest three bits from affecting the result) to calculate the entry
      // age correctly even after generation8 overflows into the next cycle.
      if (  replace->depth8 - ((263 + generation8 - replace->genBound8) & 0xF8)
          >   tte[i].depth8 - ((263 + generation8 -   tte[i].genBound8) & 0xF8))
          replace = &tte[i];

  return found = false, replace;
}


/// TranspositionTable::hashfull() returns an approximation of the hashtable
/// occupation during a search. The hash is x permill full, as per UCI protocol.

int TranspositionTable::hashfull() const {

  int cnt = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
      for (int j = 0; j < ClusterSize; ++j)
          cnt += table[i].entry[j].depth8 && (table[i].entry[j].genBound8 & 0xF8) == generation8;

  return cnt / ClusterSize;
}