File: System\Linq\Parallel\Scheduling\Scheduling.cs
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
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// Scheduling.cs
//
// Infrastructure for setting up concurrent work, marshaling exceptions, determining
// the recommended degree-of-parallelism, and so forth.
//
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
namespace System.Linq.Parallel
{
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // A simple helper class that offers common task scheduling functionality.
    //
 
    internal static class Scheduling
    {
        // Whether to preserve order by default, when neither AsOrdered nor AsUnordered is used.
        internal const bool DefaultPreserveOrder = false;
 
        // The default degree of parallelism.
        internal static readonly int DefaultDegreeOfParallelism = Math.Min(Environment.ProcessorCount, MAX_SUPPORTED_DOP);
 
        // The size to use for bounded buffers.
        internal const int DEFAULT_BOUNDED_BUFFER_CAPACITY = 512;
 
        // The number of bytes we want "chunks" to be, when partitioning, etc. We choose 4 cache
        // lines worth, assuming 128b cache line.  Most (popular) architectures use 64b cache lines,
        // but choosing 128b works for 64b too whereas a multiple of 64b isn't necessarily sufficient
        // for 128b cache systems.  So 128b it is.
        internal const int DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_CHUNK = 128 * 4;
 
        // The number of milliseconds before we assume a producer has been zombied.
        internal const int ZOMBIED_PRODUCER_TIMEOUT = Timeout.Infinite;
 
        // The largest number of partitions that PLINQ supports.
        internal const int MAX_SUPPORTED_DOP = 512;
 
 
        //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // Calculates the proper amount of DOP.  This takes into consideration dynamic nesting.
        //
 
        internal static int GetDefaultDegreeOfParallelism()
        {
            return DefaultDegreeOfParallelism;
        }
 
        //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // Gets the recommended "chunk size" for a particular CLR type.
        //
        // Notes:
        //     We try to recommend some reasonable "chunk size" for the data, but this is
        //     clearly a tradeoff, and requires a bit of experimentation. A larger chunk size
        //     can help locality, but if it's too big we may end up either stalling another
        //     partition (if enumerators are calculating data on demand) or skewing the
        //     distribution of data among the partitions.
        //
 
        internal static int GetDefaultChunkSize<T>()
        {
            int chunkSize;
 
            if (typeof(T).IsValueType)
            {
                // Marshal.SizeOf fails for value types that don't have explicit layouts. We
                // just fall back to some arbitrary constant in that case. Is there a better way?
                {
                    // We choose '128' because this ensures, no matter the actual size of the value type,
                    // the total bytes used will be a multiple of 128. This ensures it's cache aligned.
                    chunkSize = 128;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Assert((DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_CHUNK % IntPtr.Size) == 0, "bytes per chunk should be a multiple of pointer size");
                chunkSize = (DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_CHUNK / IntPtr.Size);
            }
 
            TraceHelpers.TraceInfo("Scheduling::GetDefaultChunkSize({0}) -- returning {1}", typeof(T), chunkSize);
 
            return chunkSize;
        }
    }
}