The idea is to accumulate all new tasks in a thread local queue
first without doing any thread synchronization (aka, locks and
conditional variables) and move those tasks to a scheduler queue
once they are all ready. This way we avoid per-task-pool lock
and only have one lock per bunch of tasks.
This is particularly handy when scheduling new dependency graph
node children. Brings FPS of cached simulation from the linked
below file from ~30 to ~50.
See documentation for BLI_task_pool_delayed_push_{begin, end}
and for TaskThreadLocalStorage::do_delayed_push.
Fixes T50027: Rigidbody playback and simulation performance regression with new depsgraph
Thanks Bastien for the review!
The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
Object Info node can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to multiple instances. This patch adds support for Viewport and BI.
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Example: {F499528}
Reviewers: merwin, brecht, dfelinto
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: duarteframos, fclem, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2425
We can not re-use anything for such pools, because we will know nothing about whether
the main thread is sleeping or not. So we identify such threads as 0, but we don't
use main thread's TLS.
This fixes dead-locks and crashes reported by Luca when doing playblasts.
Utility to get a file/dir in the path by index,
supporting negative indices to start from the end of the path.
Without this it wasn't straightforward to get
the a files parent directory name from a filepath.
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.
