Don't Terminate the ticker thread (#3748)

[ghc-hetmet.git] / includes / rts / Constants.h

diff --git a/includes/rts/Constants.h b/includes/rts/Constants.h
index 82f3bdd..54a1ca7 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/rts/Constants.h
+++ b/includes/rts/Constants.h
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@
 #define MAX_CHARLIKE           255
 #define MIN_CHARLIKE           0
 
+/* Each byte in the card table for an StgMutaArrPtrs covers
+ * (1<<MUT_ARR_PTRS_CARD_BITS) elements in the array.  To find a good
+ * value for this, I used the benchmarks nofib/gc/hash,
+ * nofib/gc/graph, and nofib/gc/gc_bench.
+ */
+#define MUT_ARR_PTRS_CARD_BITS 7
+
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    STG Registers.
 
@@ -263,6 +270,13 @@
  */
 #define TSO_MARKED 64
 
+/*
+ * Used to communicate between stackSqueeze() and
+ * threadStackOverflow() that a thread's stack was squeezed and the
+ * stack may not need to be expanded.
+ */
+#define TSO_SQUEEZED 128
+
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    RET_DYN stack frames
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -282,4 +296,13 @@
 #error RESERVED_STACK_WORDS may be wrong!
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * The number of times we spin in a spin lock before yielding (see
+ * #3758).  To tune this value, use the benchmark in #3758: run the
+ * server with -N2 and the client both on a dual-core.  Also make sure
+ * that the chosen value doesn't slow down any of the parallel
+ * benchmarks in nofib/parallel.
+ */
+#define SPIN_COUNT 1000
+
 #endif /* RTS_CONSTANTS_H */