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Znort 987 6fd06387 2011-08-15T12:02:34 On unix, make algo benchmark more generic
Znort 987 01886493 2011-08-15T11:59:00 Add set_non_blocking routing In preparation for upcoming generic unix automated algorithm benchmark method (as opposed to linux specific), add a utility method.
Znort 987 29f0f9bc 2011-08-15T11:55:12 Properly detect number of cores on WIN32
Znort 987 7158f9f9 2011-08-12T13:38:18 Add automated benchmark of the CPU hashers The --algo switch now accepts the "auto" argument. When "auto" is passed to --algo, cgminer starts by benchmarking all the CPU algorithms it nows about and picks the fastest. This is useful for benchmarking, but also for folks who run cgminer on a large number of heterogeneous computers because it saves them from having to configure each instance optimally. Caveat emptor: depending on the platform, some algorithms will fail with "illegal instruction" (e.g. via padlock code on non via platforms, or SSE4 code on non SSE4 platforms). To protect against this, cgminer runs the benchmarks in a child process. The crash, if any occurs in the child, and the parent marks this algo as "fails" and continues benchmarking the next algorithm. Unfortunately, this safeguard is only implemented for Linux because I have no clue how to do this on win32 (nor access to a win32 box).
Con Kolivas b73d93cd 2011-08-14T14:20:55 Bump version number.
Con Kolivas 1cca876b 2011-08-14T14:19:53 Update NEWS.
Con Kolivas 50504ef9 2011-08-14T13:57:58 If a work item has had any mining done on it, don't consider it discarded work.
Con Kolivas 656067a4 2011-08-14T12:30:50 Stale work test should respect age of rolled work as well.
Con Kolivas 23240805 2011-08-14T11:35:53 Stick to rolling only work from the current pool unless we're in load balance mode or lagging to avoid aggressive rolling imitating load balancing.
Con Kolivas 01aadda2 2011-08-14T11:24:38 Simply set the time of day when the work is decoded.
Con Kolivas 639d38fb 2011-08-14T07:54:45 Revert "Make sure to give work items a starting time only once when they're staged." This reverts commit 626ae10d7c90c8a21897343758e5dd0b00016950. Failed to address all work items.
Con Kolivas 626ae10d 2011-08-14T02:33:55 Make sure to give work items a starting time only once when they're staged.
Con Kolivas d6dd5d70 2011-08-14T01:54:47 Test each work item to see if it can be rolled instead of per-pool and roll whenever possible, adhering to the 60 second timeout.
Con Kolivas 95f87829 2011-08-13T23:59:58 The extra shift in the output actually appears detrimental in cgminer and there is a miniscule chance of missing the actual result if it ends up in the same spot as MAXBUFFERS.
Con Kolivas e9b8344a 2011-08-13T09:10:13 Free all work in one place allowing us to perform actions on it in the future.
Con Kolivas 6da13fb8 2011-08-12T23:58:00 Only put the message that a pool is down if not pinging it every minute.
Con Kolivas 510be5c9 2011-08-12T22:08:27 Summary on exit is sometimes getting lost without a flush of stdout.
Con Kolivas 42c22025 2011-08-12T21:43:33 The can_roll function fails inappropriately in stale_work.
Con Kolivas d39e5abf 2011-08-12T21:22:47 We can't hit this path since the earlier check for stale work will prevent us ever finding work it can roll here.
Con Kolivas 17e5e17e 2011-08-12T20:34:51 Only consider a pool lagging if we actually need the work and we have none staged despite queue requests stacking up.
Con Kolivas a466942f 2011-08-12T20:20:42 When pinging a sick cpu, flush finish and then ping it in a separate thread in the hope it recovers, but without blocking code elsewhere.
Con Kolivas 177e07ae 2011-08-12T14:25:44 Display last initialised time in gpu management info.
Con Kolivas 28880d0d 2011-08-13T20:54:20 Move the non cl_ variables into the cgpu info struct to allow creating a new cl state on reinit, preserving known GPU variables. Create a new context from scratch in initCQ in case something was corrupted to maximise our chance of succesfully creating a new worker thread.
Con Kolivas 071a0ad2 2011-08-12T13:00:25 Preinitialise the devices only once on startup.
Znort 987 2e31e168 2011-08-11T14:34:43 Add missing fflush(stdout) for --ndevs
Znort 987 353789da 2011-08-11T13:36:28 Use tab to indent code instead of spaces
Znort 987 83fa2158 2011-08-11T13:29:29 Lots more verbiage in error messages
Znort 987 1cbfcba2 2011-08-11T13:24:20 Disable --monitor-stderr on WIN32
Con Kolivas 467c52bb 2011-08-11T12:38:42 Allocate work from one function to be able to initialise variables added later.
Znort 987 79c989dd 2011-08-08T18:25:54 Add new option: --monitor <cmd> Option lets user specify a command <cmd> that will get forked by cgminer on startup. cgminer's stderr output subsequently gets piped directly to this command. This permits smart batch monitoring of the miner by a baby-sitter log parser while retaining the full benefit of the curses interface, e.g. when running cgminer under screen. Doing the same thing is possible using advanced bash redirection paraphernalia, but it is somewhat of a pain, especially when running screen'd. This option makes things more straightforward.
Con Kolivas 1725a1c0 2011-07-30T23:19:53 Fix non-opencl build.
Con Kolivas ef5e8bea 2011-07-30T22:02:26 Bump version number.
Con Kolivas 4cb90a8b 2011-07-30T22:01:49 News.
Con Kolivas bc2976f5 2011-07-30T21:56:51 Be more willing to get work from the backup pools if the work is simply being queued faster than it is being retrieved.
Con Kolivas ea226746 2011-07-30T17:08:20 Update NEWS.
Con Kolivas 8f186e61 2011-07-30T16:59:54 Restart threads by abstracting out the clcontext initialisation and using that instead of probing all cards.
Con Kolivas 411570d3 2011-07-30T16:36:19 Revert "Don't use asynchronous work with flushes as it decreases reliability and two threads per GPU achieves the same throughput." This reverts commit 7223508f7e5e77ca9b5ab7ffbc96817b3bbf2461. Bad idea. Need to work around sync lineup.
Con Kolivas decafea0 2011-07-30T16:36:02 Revert "Read buffers only after reading data back now that we're sync." This reverts commit 5f2c3151b474ac49635701ff3f56966c23abfd57. Bad idea. Need to rework around sync lineup.
Con Kolivas 5f2c3151 2011-07-30T16:33:43 Read buffers only after reading data back now that we're sync.
Con Kolivas 7223508f 2011-07-30T16:11:03 Don't use asynchronous work with flushes as it decreases reliability and two threads per GPU achieves the same throughput.
Con Kolivas f763b0db 2011-07-30T14:27:17 Don't free up any ram from the dying thread to avoid dereferences.
Con Kolivas 43faa113 2011-07-30T13:37:34 Use correct name in syslog.
Con Kolivas 5f667e7e 2011-07-30T13:36:08 Get rid of extra line feeds.
Con Kolivas 37115c0e 2011-07-30T13:33:52 RPC call debugging is a mess with \r in it so remove it.
Con Kolivas 59b64087 2011-07-30T13:28:25 So we can pthread cancel a stuck thread, but can't pthread join it. And we can't tq freeze the old queue or we could hang here. And we need to re-initialise all the opencl contexts so send a test command and if it succeeds reinit the card.
Con Kolivas 74a07eb4 2011-07-30T13:14:59 Revert "Send threads message to stop and then send cancel message but don't pthread_join them if they're stuck nor reinit the opencl code to not hang everything." This reverts commit 62521f3e53f06920cd101c47c8645f026d9b90b1. Not enough to restart a GPU.
Con Kolivas e100fcc6 2011-07-30T13:14:47 Revert "Send ping to wake up new threads." This reverts commit bf4c3626bce572c0e313a1edcca8a04608723cff. Prepare to rollback.
Con Kolivas bf4c3626 2011-07-30T12:00:12 Send ping to wake up new threads.
Con Kolivas 62521f3e 2011-07-30T10:16:03 Send threads message to stop and then send cancel message but don't pthread_join them if they're stuck nor reinit the opencl code to not hang everything.
Con Kolivas b2cbaa1a 2011-07-30T08:21:17 Send a hung device a command. If it returns, try to reinitialise it.
Con Kolivas a702f599 2011-07-30T02:31:29 Disable the reinit_thread option till we know it actually works.
Con Kolivas bb575a55 2011-07-30T02:16:29 Reference correct GPU and only try to restart if it reaches DEAD.
Con Kolivas 947a74bf 2011-07-30T01:23:17 Differentiate thread failure from GPU failure by declaring a GPU sick first and trying to restart the thread without re-initialising the card. If that fails, then try once more at ten minutes and declare it dead. This should prevent an attempted re-initialising of the GPU from taking out other GPUs.
Con Kolivas 20ce1ebf 2011-07-29T20:40:57 Typo.
Con Kolivas 0eaacb8c 2011-07-28T22:10:11 Merge pull request #23 from Kovensky/cgminer Use pkg-config to check for libcurl version (actually links this time) (actually merges this time)
Diogo Franco 44faebec 2011-07-28T23:26:22 Fix the Makefile.am for the last commit That LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG macro apparently did some things wrong too, like adding libraries to a non-standard "LIBCURL" variable instead of "LIBCURL_LIBS". Fixes linking after the previous commit.
Diogo Franco dc49d240 2011-07-28T22:17:58 Use pkg-config to check for libcurl version Fixes autogen on OSX Lion, might fix for other platforms which don't ship those libcurl m4 macros.
Con Kolivas 106d367b 2011-07-29T12:50:55 Revert "Use pkg-config to check for libcurl version" This reverts commit 98387f94acd8c2d335727dd7a6fd900d292a58bf. Broke generic building.
Con Kolivas 591666ea 2011-07-28T18:28:41 Merge pull request #21 from Kovensky/cgminer Use pkg-config to check for libcurl version
Diogo Franco 98387f94 2011-07-28T22:17:58 Use pkg-config to check for libcurl version Fixes autogen on OSX Lion, might fix for other platforms which don't ship those libcurl m4 macros.
Con Kolivas 38037606 2011-07-29T11:11:42 Reimplement the per-thread getwork count with proper accounting at get_work().
Con Kolivas 0fe22d8d 2011-07-29T11:02:47 Revert "Only update the thread getwork queue count if it actually results in a getwork request from the server." This reverts commit 2e607d44f2baa8e8f1156e7bd074128e1e0e8eeb. The count looks far too difficult to add up with this change since many are queued generically.
Con Kolivas 2e607d44 2011-07-29T10:39:58 Only update the thread getwork queue count if it actually results in a getwork request from the server.
Con Kolivas 4365896b 2011-07-29T10:17:36 Release the command queue created after we've copied the binary data.
Con Kolivas 283d5d23 2011-07-29T10:09:24 Create a command queue from the program created from source which allows us to flush the command queue in the hope it will not generate a zero sized binary any more.
Con Kolivas 1f837909 2011-07-29T01:16:39 Bump version number.
Con Kolivas 7a8ceee2 2011-07-29T01:15:57 Update news.
Con Kolivas 5b9bfedd 2011-07-29T00:40:47 Display the correct current hash as per blockexplorer, truncated to 16 characters, with just the time.
Con Kolivas 668ab18f 2011-07-28T23:14:47 More logging info.
Con Kolivas 53e05c64 2011-07-28T19:55:54 Log to the output file at any time with warnings and errors, instead of just when verbose mode is on.
Con Kolivas 5a64ebcc 2011-07-28T13:08:17 Update news.
Con Kolivas c94737ce 2011-07-28T12:44:50 Add http:// if it's not explicitly set for URL entries.
Con Kolivas 9c52bc20 2011-07-28T12:07:23 Add faq about logging.
Con Kolivas f0fe82ea 2011-07-28T10:49:36 Some Intel HD graphics support the opencl commands but return errors since they don't support opencl. Don't fail with them, just provide a warning and disable GPU mining.
Con Kolivas 10fa821e 2011-07-28T10:46:28 Update utility and efficiency figures when displaying them.
Con Kolivas 0006eb2d 2011-07-28T10:36:48 Make the "quiet" mode still update the status and display errors, and add a new --real-quiet option which disables all output and can be set once while running.
Con Kolivas da06a348 2011-07-28T10:03:31 The work length in the miner thread gets smaller but doesn't get bigger if it's under 1 second. This could end up leading to CPU under-utilisation and lower and lower hash rates. Fix it by increasing work length if it drops under 1 second.
Con Kolivas a0924933 2011-07-28T09:59:18 Restarting a hung GPU can hang the rest of the GPUs so just declare it dead and provide the information in the status.
Con Kolivas 013557a9 2011-07-27T22:30:06 Bump version number.
Con Kolivas b86df663 2011-07-27T22:29:40 Update news.
Con Kolivas 45faff2e 2011-07-27T22:28:41 Add debugging output to all tq_pop calls.
Con Kolivas 2e2b2ba1 2011-07-27T22:20:57 Add debugging output to tq_push calls.
Con Kolivas 70fa8f31 2011-07-27T21:58:08 Make the display options clearer.
Con Kolivas 4b52f440 2011-07-27T20:49:34 Update news.
Con Kolivas c7978f11 2011-07-27T20:40:06 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.
Con Kolivas e82e3902 2011-07-27T16:40:52 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.
Con Kolivas 9c12d496 2011-07-27T16:29:37 Attribute split work as local work generation.
Con Kolivas 720032da 2011-07-27T15:11:57 Make sure to decrease queued count if we discard the work.
Con Kolivas 967acd39 2011-07-27T15:06:04 Don't put an extra work item in the queue as each new device thread will do so itself.
Con Kolivas 82698fbf 2011-07-27T15:01:08 Do away with queueing work separately at the start and let each thread grab its own work as soon as it's ready.
Con Kolivas 6cc8d22b 2011-07-27T14:53:43 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.
Con Kolivas 45d54357 2011-07-27T14:29:51 Make cpu mining work submission asynchronous as well.
Con Kolivas 380d145c 2011-07-27T14:03:01 Make threads report out when they're queueing a request and report if they've failed.
Con Kolivas 324dd93b 2011-07-27T10:36:16 Don't take more than one lock at a time.
Con Kolivas 98f609b5 2011-07-27T10:31:44 Sanity check to prove locking.
Con Kolivas c7284028 2011-07-27T10:00:58 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.
Con Kolivas a4889582 2011-07-27T09:41:52 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.
Con Kolivas 6f905932 2011-07-27T08:32:25 Only free the thread structures if the thread still exists.
Con Kolivas 40bc82d4 2011-07-27T02:03:59 Don't adjust hash_div only up for GPUs. Disable hash_div adjustment for GPUs.
Con Kolivas 1aadfc58 2011-07-27T01:41:16 Two redraws in a row cause a crash in old libncurses so just do one redraw using the main window.