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-rw-r--r--common/kernel/command.cc2
-rw-r--r--common/place/placer_heap.cc13
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/common/kernel/command.cc b/common/kernel/command.cc
index 6d2dc939..65aa0299 100644
--- a/common/kernel/command.cc
+++ b/common/kernel/command.cc
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ po::options_description CommandHandler::getGeneralOptions()
"placer heap criticality exponent (int, default: 2)");
general.add_options()("placer-heap-timingweight", po::value<int>(), "placer heap timing weight (int, default: 10)");
general.add_options()("placer-heap-cell-placement-timeout", po::value<int>(),
- "allow placer to attempt up to the given number of iterations to place the cell (int, default: design size^2 / 8, 0 for no timeout)");
+ "allow placer to attempt up to max(10000, total cells^2 / N) iterations to place a cell (int N, default: 8, 0 for no timeout)");
#if !defined(__wasm)
general.add_options()("parallel-refine", "use new experimental parallelised engine for placement refinement");
diff --git a/common/place/placer_heap.cc b/common/place/placer_heap.cc
index ae04118b..781a7646 100644
--- a/common/place/placer_heap.cc
+++ b/common/place/placer_heap.cc
@@ -1817,10 +1817,15 @@ PlacerHeapCfg::PlacerHeapCfg(Context *ctx)
timing_driven = ctx->setting<bool>("timing_driven");
solverTolerance = 1e-5;
placeAllAtOnce = false;
- cell_placement_timeout = ctx->setting<int>("placerHeap/cellPlacementTimeout",
- // Set a conservative default. This is a rather large number and could probably
- // be shaved down, but for now it will keep the process from running indefinite.
- std::max(10000, (int(ctx->cells.size()) * int(ctx->cells.size()) / 8) + 1));
+
+ int timeout_divisor = ctx->setting<int>("placerHeap/cellPlacementTimeout", 8);
+ if (timeout_divisor > 0) {
+ // Set a conservative default. This is a rather large number and could probably
+ // be shaved down, but for now it will keep the process from running indefinite.
+ cell_placement_timeout = std::max(10000, (int(ctx->cells.size()) * int(ctx->cells.size()) / timeout_divisor));
+ } else {
+ cell_placement_timeout = 0;
+ }
hpwl_scale_x = 1;
hpwl_scale_y = 1;