New auto-calibrating system hires timer.

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Caspian Rychlik-Prince 2005-03-08 14:46:46 +00:00
parent 4946bf9b60
commit 43a4117e42
1 changed files with 139 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -55,13 +55,69 @@ public final class Sys {
/** Debug flag. */
public static final boolean DEBUG = Boolean.getBoolean("org.lwjgl.Sys.debug");
/** OS Name */
private final static String OS_NAME = System.getProperty("os.name");
/** OS Name */
private final static String OS_NAME = System.getProperty("os.name");
/** The implementation instance to delegate platform specific behavior to */
private final static SysImplementation implementation;
/*
* Timer calibration. The hires timers on some systems - notably SpeedStep chips,
* HyperThreaded chips, or dual-processor/cores, are notoriously inaccurate. We
* therefore need to calibrate the hires timer with a lowres timer that is known
* to keep much more accurate time. System.currentTimeMillis() keeps accurate time
* down to a worst-case resolution of 50ms, which is good enough for us as it means
* at worst we will have 3-4 frames at the wrong rate if a hires timer resolution
* change occurs.
*/
/** Master control: override all our clever recalibration */
private static final boolean OVERRIDE_CALIBRATION = Boolean.getBoolean("org.lwjgl.Sys.overrideCalibration");
/** Turn on debugging for calibration */
private static final boolean DEBUG_CALIBRATION = Boolean.getBoolean("org.lwjgl.Sys.debugCalibration");
/**
* Timer calibration error, expressed as % variance either side of the baseline in the
* system property org.lwjhgl.Sys.timerError. 35.0% is the default.
*/
private static final double UPPER_TIMER_ERROR = 1.0 + Double.parseDouble(System.getProperty("org.lwjgl.Sys.timerError", "35.0")) / 100.0;
private static final double LOWER_TIMER_ERROR = 1.0 - Double.parseDouble(System.getProperty("org.lwjgl.Sys.timerError", "35.0")) / 100.0;
/** Short term recalibration threshold */
private static final long SHORT_RECALIBRATION_THRESHOLD = Long.parseLong(System.getProperty("org.lwjgl.Sys.shortRecalibrationThreshold", "50"));
/** Long term recalibration threshold */
private static final long LONG_RECALIBRATION_THRESHOLD = Long.parseLong(System.getProperty("org.lwjgl.Sys.longRecalibrationThreshold", "1000"));
/** Last recalibration timer value, in milliseconds */
private static long recalibrationThen;
/** Current recalibration timer value, in milliseconds */
private static long recalibrationNow;
/** Total hires ticks that have passed since we started using recalibrated time */
private static long ticksSinceRecalibration;
/** Last lowres timer time, in milliseconds */
private static long lowresThen;
/** Current lowres timer time, in milliseconds */
private static long lowresNow;
/** Last hires timer time, in ticks */
private static long hiresThen;
/** Current hires timer time, in ticks */
private static long hiresNow;
/** Baseline hires resolution */
private static long defaultResolution;
/** Current hires resolution */
private static long currentResolution;
static {
implementation = createImplementation();
System.loadLibrary(LIBRARY_NAME);
@ -117,12 +173,90 @@ public final class Sys {
}
/**
* Obtains the number of ticks that the hires timer does in a second.
* Obtains the number of ticks that the hires timer does in a second. This method is fast;
* it should be called as frequently as possible, as it recalibrates the timer.
*
* @return timer resolution in ticks per second or 0 if no timer is present.
*/
public static long getTimerResolution() {
return implementation.getTimerResolution();
// Check for explicit override
if (OVERRIDE_CALIBRATION) {
return implementation.getTimerResolution();
}
// Firstly make sure we have at least some notion of a baseline
if (defaultResolution == 0L) {
defaultResolution = implementation.getTimerResolution();
currentResolution = defaultResolution;
if (DEBUG_CALIBRATION) {
System.err.println("Initial timer calibration "+defaultResolution+" ticks per second");
}
}
lowresNow = System.currentTimeMillis() & 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFL;
hiresNow = getTime();
if (lowresNow > lowresThen + SHORT_RECALIBRATION_THRESHOLD && hiresNow > hiresThen) {
// We've had a lowres timer update. We can use this to calibrate the hires timer
// resolution.
double millis = lowresNow - lowresThen;
double ticks = hiresNow - hiresThen;
lowresThen = lowresNow;
hiresThen = hiresNow;
double ticksPerSecond = 1000.0 * ticks / millis;
// If the ticksPerSecond we've calcuated is out by more than the error % from
// the baseline resolution, we will discreetly replace the returned timer resolution
// by our calculated. If this persists for more than a second or so we will adjust
// the baseline resolution to the average that we've calculated over the second.
double errorRatio = ticksPerSecond / (double) defaultResolution;
if (errorRatio < LOWER_TIMER_ERROR || errorRatio > UPPER_TIMER_ERROR) {
// We're outside the acceptable range so we will use the newly calculated ticks
// per second. If we were already using recalibrated time, we start counting
// the ticks that pass over a certain length of time. If that duration is exceeded
// and we're still using recalibrated time, we permanently recalibrate.
long tempResolution = (long) ticksPerSecond;
if (DEBUG_CALIBRATION) {
System.err.println("Temporary recalibration to "+tempResolution+" ticks per second");
}
if (currentResolution == defaultResolution) {
// Start timing
ticksSinceRecalibration = 0L;
recalibrationThen = lowresNow;
recalibrationNow = lowresNow;
} else {
// Continue counting ticks
ticksSinceRecalibration += getTime();
recalibrationNow = lowresNow;
long totalTicksSinceRecalibrationStarted = recalibrationNow - recalibrationThen;
if (totalTicksSinceRecalibrationStarted > LONG_RECALIBRATION_THRESHOLD) {
// Ok, we've now been operating at a different resolution for long enough.
// Let's choose a new default resolution based on the average we've
// calculated since it first started needing recalibrating
long actualRecalibrationDuration = recalibrationNow - recalibrationThen;
defaultResolution = (long) (1000.0 * totalTicksSinceRecalibrationStarted / actualRecalibrationDuration);
tempResolution = defaultResolution;
if (DEBUG_CALIBRATION) {
System.err.println("Permanent recalibration to "+defaultResolution+" ticks per second");
}
}
}
// Temporarily change current resolution to the recently calculated resolution
currentResolution = tempResolution;
} else {
// Recalibrate the baseline using the operating system
defaultResolution = implementation.getTimerResolution();
if (DEBUG_CALIBRATION && currentResolution != defaultResolution) {
System.err.println("Resetting to system calibration "+defaultResolution+" ticks per second");
}
currentResolution = defaultResolution;
}
}
return currentResolution;
}
/**