This attempt at TLS was leftover from an earlier prototype. It never worked with Blender's build system, and was defined to just exist, not to actually do anything.
Before now it lived in source/blender/gpu for convenience. Only a few files in the gpu module use Gawain directly.
Tested on Mac, time to push and test on Windows.
Todo: some CMake magic to make it easy to
#include "gawain/some_header.h"
from any C or H file. Main problem here is the many editors that include GPU_immediate.h which includes Gawain's immediate.h -- is there a way to avoid changing every editor's CMakeLists?
Pass globals as a bare pointer, same as it sued to be prior to split kernel rework.
AMD CPU platform and Intel OpenCL were complaining about this.
Perhaps we shouldn't pass globals as pointer at all, this isn't something what is
really portable and can cause issues on 32 bit perhaps.
The range is controlled using the following command line arguments:
--cycles-resumable-start-chunk
--cycles-resumable-end-chunk
Those are 1-based index of range for rendering.
While this compiler is not officially supported yet, getting it to work is
a nice thing because more and more AMD cards will fall under MESA driver.
It's also nice to use explicit comparison with NULL, which makes it more
clear whether variable is a boolean or pointer. Even Rust enforces this!
Patch by Ian Bruce with own modifications.
Single program generally compiles kernels faster (2-3 times), loads faster,
takes less drive space (2-3 times), and reduces the number of cached kernels.
Reduces memory allocation for split kernel.
This allows for faster rendering due to bigger global size,
specially when GPU memory is limited.
Perfromance results:
R9 290 total render time
Before After Change
BMW 4:37 4:34 -1.1 %
Classroom 14:43 14:30 -1.5 %
Fishy Cat 11:20 11:04 -2.4 %
Koro 12:11 12:04 -1.0 %
Pabellon Barcelona 22:01 20:44 -5.8 %
Pabellon Barcelona(*) 15:32 15:09 -2.5 %
(*) without glossy connected to volume
Decoupled ray marching is not supported yet.
Transparent shadows are always enabled for volume rendering.
Changes in kernel/bvh and kernel/geom are from Sergey.
This simiplifies code significantly, and prepares it for
record-all transparent shadow function in split kernel.
