Suspended pools allows to push huge amount of initial tasks
without any threading synchronization and hence overhead.
This gives ~50% speedup of cached rigid body with file from
T50027 and seems to have no negative affect in other scenes
here.
The idea is to allow some amount of tasks to be pushed from working
thread to it's local queue, so we can acquire some work without doing
whole mutex lock.
This should allow us to remove some hacks from depsgraph which was
added there to keep threads alive.
This allows us to avoid TLS stored in pool which gives us advantage of
using pre-allocated tasks pool for the pools created from non-main thread.
Even on systems with slow pthread TLS it should not be a problem because
we access it once at a pool construction time. If we want to use this more
often (for example, to get rid of push_from_thread) we'll have to do much
more accurate benchmark.
Basically move all thread-specific data (currently it's only task
memory pool) from a dedicated array of taskScheduler to TaskThread.
This way we can add more thread-specific data in the future with
less of a hassle.
This feature was adding extra complexity to task scheduling
which required yet extra variables to be worried about to be
modified in atomic manner, which resulted in following issues:
- More complex code to maintain, which increases risks of
something going wrong when we modify the code.
- Extra barriers and/or locks during task scheduling, which
causes extra threading overhead.
- Unable to use some other implementation (such as TBB) even for
the comparison tests.
Notes about other changes.
There are two places where we really had to use that limit.
One of them is the single threaded dependency graph. This will
now construct a single-threaded scheduler at evaluation time.
This shouldn't be a problem because it only happens when using
debugging command line arguments and the code simply don't
run in regular Blender operation.
The code seems a bit duplicated here across old and new
depsgraph, but think it's OK since the old depsgraph is already
gone in 2.8 branch and i don't see where else we might want
to use such a single-threaded scheduler.
When/if we'll want to do so, we can move it to a centralized
single-threaded scheduler in threads.c.
OpenGL render was a bit more tricky to port, but basically we
are using conditional variables to wait background thread to
do all the job.
Comments said that function was supposed to 'stop worker threads', but
it absolutely did not do anything like that, was merely wiping out TODO
queue of tasks from given pool (kind of subset of what
`BLI_task_pool_cancel()` does).
Misleading, and currently useless, we can always add it back if we need
it some day, but for now we try to simplify that area.
Freeing pool was calling `BLI_task_pool_stop()`, which only clears
pool's tasks that are in TODO queue, whithout ensuring no more tasks
from that pool are being processed in worker threads.
This could lead to use-after-free random (and seldom) crashes.
Now use instead `BLI_task_pool_cancel()`, which does waits for all tasks
being processed to finish, before returning.
Not really happy of per-pool threads limit, need to find better
approach to that. But at least it's possible to get rid of half
of the nastyness here by removing getter which was only used in
an assert statement.
That piece of code was already well-tested and this code becomes
obsolete in the new depsgraph and does no longer exists in blender
2.8 branch.
This was only used for progress report, and it's wrong because:
- Pool might in theory be re-used by different tasks
- We should not make any decision based on scheduling stats
Proper way is to take care of progress by the task itself.
Design Documents
----------------
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Layers
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/DataDesignRevised
User Commit Log
---------------
* New Layer and Collection system to replace render layers and viewport layers.
* A layer is a set of collections of objects (and their drawing options) required for specific tasks.
* A collection is a set of objects, equivalent of the old layers in Blender. A collection can be shared across multiple layers.
* All Scenes have a master collection that all other collections are children of.
* New collection "context" tab (in Properties Editor)
* New temporary viewport "collections" panel to control per-collection
visibility
Missing User Features
---------------------
* Collection "Filter"
Option to add objects based on their names
* Collection Manager operators
The existing buttons are placeholders
* Collection Manager drawing
The editor main region is empty
* Collection Override
* Per-Collection engine settings
This will come as a separate commit, as part of the clay-engine branch
Dev Commit Log
--------------
* New DNA file (DNA_layer_types.h) with the new structs
We are replacing Base by a new extended Base while keeping it backward
compatible with some legacy settings (i.e., lay, flag_legacy).
Renamed all Base to BaseLegacy to make it clear the areas of code that
still need to be converted
Note: manual changes were required on - deg_builder_nodes.h, rna_object.c, KX_Light.cpp
* Unittesting for main syncronization requirements
- read, write, add/copy/remove objects, copy scene, collection
link/unlinking, context)
* New Editor: Collection Manager
Based on patch by Julian Eisel
This is extracted from the layer-manager branch. With the following changes:
- Renamed references of layer manager to collections manager
- I doesn't include the editors/space_collections/ draw and util files
- The drawing code itself will be implemented separately by Julian
* Base / Object:
A little note about them. Original Blender code would try to keep them
in sync through the code, juggling flags back and forth. This will now
be handled by Depsgraph, keeping Object and Bases more separated
throughout the non-rendering code.
Scene.base is being cleared in doversion, and the old viewport drawing
code was poorly converted to use the new bases while the new viewport
code doesn't get merged and replace the old one.
Python API Changes
------------------
```
- scene.layers
+ # no longer exists
- scene.objects
+ scene.scene_layers.active.objects
- scene.objects.active
+ scene.render_layers.active.objects.active
- bpy.context.scene.objects.link()
+ bpy.context.scene_collection.objects.link()
- bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, use_active_layer=True, name=None)
+ bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, name=None)
- bpy.context.object.select
+ bpy.context.object.select = True
+ bpy.context.object.select = False
+ bpy.context.object.select_get()
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='SELECT')
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='DESELECT')
-AddObjectHelper.layers
+ # no longer exists
```
We (the Microsoft C++ team) use the Blender project as part of our "Real world code" tests.
I noticed a place in WIN32 specific code (dvpapi.cpp:85) where a string literal is losing
its const-ness when being passed to BLI_dynlib_open(). This is not permitted when using the
/permissive- conformance compiler switch (see our blog
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/11/16/permissive-switch/)
My suggested fix is to add const and propagate it where needed. Another possible fix would be
to explicitly cast away the const.
Reviewers: mont29, sergey, LazyDodo
Subscribers: Blendify, sergey, mont29, LazyDodo
Tags: #platform:_windows
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2495
The new `isect_ray_aabb_v3_simple` function replaces the `BKE_boundbox_ray_hit_check` and can be used in BVHTree Root (first AABB). So it is much more efficient.
Things like `BLI_uniquename` had nothing, but really nothing to do in
BLI_path_util files!
Also, got rid of length limitation in `BLI_uniquename_cb`, we can use
alloca here to avoid overhead of malloc while keeping free size (within
reasonable limits of course).
