From: Matthias Maier Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:04:20 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Port hardware concurrency detection to C++11 X-Git-Tag: v9.3.0-rc1~1538^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99e3e6a0d4cefb5c5b624ac8194ee256bd7eec90;p=dealii.git Port hardware concurrency detection to C++11 --- diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/multithread_info.h b/include/deal.II/base/multithread_info.h index 18de23ca19..1b618a90c7 100644 --- a/include/deal.II/base/multithread_info.h +++ b/include/deal.II/base/multithread_info.h @@ -55,13 +55,11 @@ public: MultithreadInfo() = delete; /** - * The number of CPUs in the system. At the moment detection of CPUs is only - * implemented on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac computers. It is one if detection - * failed or is not implemented on your system. + * The number of CPUs in the system. * - * If it is one, although you are on a multi-processor machine, please refer - * to the documentation in multithread_info.cc near to the - * error directive. + * This internally calls + * [std::thread::hardware_concurrency](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/thread/hardware_concurrency) + * but sets the result to 1 if the call returns an error. */ static unsigned int n_cores(); @@ -116,24 +114,10 @@ public: initialize_multithreading(); private: - /** - * Private function to determine the number of CPUs. Implementation for - * Linux, OSF, SGI, and Sun machines; if no detection of the number of CPUs - * is supported, or if detection fails, this function returns one. - */ - static unsigned int - get_n_cpus(); - /** * Variable representing the maximum number of threads. */ static unsigned int n_max_threads; - - /** - * Variable representing the number of cores in the system. This is computed - * by get_n_cpus() and is returned by n_cores(). - */ - static const unsigned int n_cpus; }; diff --git a/source/base/multithread_info.cc b/source/base/multithread_info.cc index 410ce1b8b8..1484bafaeb 100644 --- a/source/base/multithread_info.cc +++ b/source/base/multithread_info.cc @@ -16,16 +16,9 @@ #include #include -#ifdef DEAL_II_HAVE_UNISTD_H -# include -#endif - -#if (defined(__MACH__) && defined(__APPLE__)) || defined(__FreeBSD__) -# include -# include -#endif - #include +#include // for std::getenv +#include #ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_TBB # define TBB_SUPPRESS_DEPRECATED_MESSAGES 1 @@ -35,77 +28,16 @@ DEAL_II_NAMESPACE_OPEN -/* Detecting how many processors a given machine has is something that - varies greatly between operating systems. For a few operating - systems, we have figured out how to do that below, but some others - are still missing. If you find a way to do this on your favorite - system, please let us know. - */ - - -#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__sun__) || defined(__osf__) || defined(_AIX) - -unsigned int -MultithreadInfo::get_n_cpus() -{ - return sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); -} - -#elif (defined(__MACH__) && defined(__APPLE__)) || defined(__FreeBSD__) -// This is only tested on a dual G5 2.5GHz running MacOSX 10.3.6 -// and on an Intel Mac Book Pro. -// If it doesn't work please contact the mailinglist. -unsigned int -MultithreadInfo::get_n_cpus() -{ - int mib[2]; - int n_cpus; - std::size_t len; - - mib[0] = CTL_HW; - mib[1] = HW_NCPU; - len = sizeof(n_cpus); - sysctl(mib, 2, &n_cpus, &len, nullptr, 0); - - return n_cpus; -} - -#else - -// If you get n_cpus=1 although you are on a multi-processor machine, -// then this may have two reasons: either because the system macros, -// e.g.__linux__, __sgi__, etc. weren't defined by the compiler or the -// detection of processors is really not implemented for your specific -// system. In the first case you can add e.g. -D__sgi__ to your -// compiling flags, in the latter case you need to implement the -// get_n_cpus() function for your system. -// -// In both cases, this #else case is compiled, a fact that you can -// easily verify by uncommenting the following #error directive, -// recompiling and getting a compilation error right at that line. -// After definition of the system macro or the implementation of the -// new detection this #error message during compilation shouldn't -// occur any more. -// -// Please send all new implementations of detection of processors to -// the deal.II mailing list, such that it can be included into the -// next deal.II release. - -//#error Detection of Processors not supported on this OS. Setting n_cpus=1 by -// default. - -unsigned int -MultithreadInfo::get_n_cpus() -{ - return 1; -} - -#endif unsigned int MultithreadInfo::n_cores() { - return MultithreadInfo::n_cpus; + // There is a slight semantic change between our n_cores() call and the + // std::thread alternative: in case of an error the latter one returns 0 + // in contrast to a 1 that n_cores() used to do. For compatibility, let's + // translate to our numbering scheme: + const unsigned int n_cores = std::thread::hardware_concurrency(); + return n_cores == 0 ? 1 : n_cores; } @@ -117,8 +49,7 @@ MultithreadInfo::set_thread_limit(const unsigned int max_threads) // then also see if something was given in the environment { - const char *penv = getenv("DEAL_II_NUM_THREADS"); - if (penv != nullptr) + if (const char *penv = std::getenv("DEAL_II_NUM_THREADS")) { unsigned int max_threads_env = numbers::invalid_unsigned_int; try @@ -163,7 +94,7 @@ MultithreadInfo::set_thread_limit(const unsigned int max_threads) dummy.initialize(n_max_threads); #endif if (n_max_threads == numbers::invalid_unsigned_int) - n_max_threads = get_n_cpus(); + n_max_threads = n_cores(); } @@ -188,8 +119,7 @@ MultithreadInfo::is_running_single_threaded() std::size_t MultithreadInfo::memory_consumption() { - // only simple data elements, so - // use sizeof operator + // only simple data elements, so use sizeof operator return sizeof(MultithreadInfo); } @@ -207,8 +137,6 @@ MultithreadInfo::initialize_multithreading() } - -const unsigned int MultithreadInfo::n_cpus = MultithreadInfo::get_n_cpus(); unsigned int MultithreadInfo::n_max_threads = numbers::invalid_unsigned_int; namespace