This avoid recreating the GPU context for each individual
tests. This reduces the overhead drastically.
Excluding static_shaders and texture_pool tests I get for GPUVulkanTest:
`Before: 129 tests from 1 test suite ran. (26304 ms total) `
`After: 129 tests from 1 test suite ran. (6965 ms total) `
Including static_shaders and texture_pool tests I get for GPUMetalTest:
`Before: 124 tests from 1 test suite ran. (54654 ms total)`
`After: 124 tests from 1 test suite ran. (1870 ms total)`
Given the tests are run twice for the workarounds versions, the
speedup can be multiplied by 2.
Overall tests time is still largely dominated by shader compilation time.
However, there is still 3x improvement using this patch:
Including static_shaders and texture_pool tests I get for GPUVulkanTest,
GPUVulkanWorkaroundTest, GPUOpenGLTest, GPUOpenGLWorkaroundTest:
`Before: 516 tests from 4 test suites ran. (318878 ms total)`
`After: 516 tests from 4 test suites ran. (106593 ms total)`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138097
Adds an option to set the capture title when using renderdoc
`GPU_debug_capture_begin` has an optional `title` parameter to set
the title of the renderdoc capture.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118649
This PR enables shader validation testing on buildbot for Metal.
OpenGL isn't enabled as OpenGL requires an actual driver and GPU
attached to the build bot infrastructure. Also the OpenGL backend
caches data (glsl_patch) globally and requires a restart in order to
create the correct one.
Vulkan isn't enabled as it requires some changes:
* For windows it requires to install more recent vulkan software versions as
part of the buildbot windows configuration
* For Linux it requires to start a GHOST System without any X11/Wayland
This currently fails on the buildbot. We should check if we can use
`GHOST_SystemHeadless` with `GHOST_ContextVK`
Each shaders are compiled twice. Once based on the
actual features of the installed GPU/backend. And once with all
the work-arounds enabled, simulating a platform close to the
minimum requirements of Blender.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116040
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
* opengl_context -> system_gpu_context. This is the operating system OpenGL,
Metal or Vulkan context provided by GHOST.
* gpu_context -> blender_gpu_context. This is the GPUContext provided by
the Blender GPU module, which wraps the GHOST context and adds some state.
* Various functions create/destroy/enable/disable both contexts, these have
just gpu_context in the name now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108723
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
Vulkan test cases uses SRGB conversion. These test cases where failing
as the conversion table wasn't initialized.
This PR initializes the conversion table and fix the Vulkan data
conversion tests.
The renderdoc integration used to be behind the `--debug-gpu`
command line option. When using `--debug-gpu` outside renderdoc
error messages where displayed that aren't relevant.
This PR adds a specific command line option for the renderdoc
integration. This option will also enable `--debug-gpu`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106541
This PR uses renderdoc for frame capturing when enabled.
It enabled an easier workflow for frame capturing.
- Capture GPU API calls from test cases
- Capture GPU API calls from background threads
- Capture GPU API calls from background rendering.
Renderdoc is an important GPU debugger used by the Eevee/
Viewport module. Previously we needed to change code in
order to record background rendering, that could on its own
lead to other side-effects.
The integration with renderdoc can be enabled using
`WITH_RENDERDOC=On` compiler option. `GPU_debug_capture_begin`
and `GPU_debug_capture_end` can be added to the section
of the code you want to debug. When running Blender inside
renderdoc this part will automatically be captured.
All GPU test cases are now guarded by these calls. In order
to capture the test cases you need to start the test cases
from renderdoc and the captured GPU API calls will appear
where each capture is a single test case.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105921
This patch adds initial support for compute shaders to
the vulkan backend. As the development is oriented to the test-
cases we have the implementation is limited to what is used there.
It has been validated that with this patch that the following test
cases are running as expected
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_vbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ibo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ssbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_storage_buffer_create_update_read`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_2d`
This patch includes:
- Allocating VkBuffer on device.
- Uploading data from CPU to VkBuffer.
- Binding VkBuffer as SSBO to a compute shader.
- Execute compute shader and altering VkBuffer.
- Download the VkBuffer to CPU ram.
- Validate that it worked.
- Use device only vertex buffer as SSBO
- Use device only index buffer as SSBO
- Use device only image buffers
GHOST API has been changed as the original design was created before
we even had support for compute shaders in blender. The function
`GHOST_getVulkanBackbuffer` has been separated to retrieve the command
buffer without a backbuffer (`GHOST_getVulkanCommandBuffer`). In order
to do correct command buffer processing we needed access to the queue
owned by GHOST. This is returned as part of the `GHOST_getVulkanHandles`
function.
Open topics (not considered part of this patch)
- Memory barriers & command buffer encoding
- Indirect compute dispatching
- Rest of the test cases
- Data conversions when requested data format is different than on device.
- GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_1d is supported on AMD devices.
NVIDIA doesn't seem to support 1d textures.
Pull-request: #104518
MTLContext provides functionality for command encoding, binding management and graphics device management. MTLImmediate provides simple draw enablement with dynamically encoded data. These draws utilise temporary scratch buffer memory to provide minimal bandwidth overhead during workload submission.
This patch also contains empty placeholders for MTLBatch and MTLDrawList to enable testing of first pixels on-screen without failure.
The Metal API also requires access to the GHOST_Context to ensure the same pre-initialized Metal GPU device is used by the viewport. Given the explicit nature of Metal, explicit control is also needed over presentation, to ensure correct work scheduling and rendering pipeline state.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
(The diff is based on 043f59cb3b)
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15953
Backend initialization needs to be delayed until after the OpenGL context
is created. This worked fine in foreground mode because the OpenGL context
already exists for the window at the point GPU_backend_init_once was called,
but not for background mode.
Create the backend just in time in GPU_context_create as before, and
automatically free it when the last context id discarded. But check if any
GPU backend is supported before creating the OpenGL context.
Ref D15463, D15465
This causes an assert with libepoxy, but was wrong already regardless.
Refactor logic to work as follows:
* GPU_exit() deletes backend resources
* Destroy UI GPU resources with the context active
* Call GPU_backend_exit() after deleting the context
Ref D15291
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15465
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
The draw manager test case initialized ghost, gpu and draw manager. This
change splits the base test case to GPU specific and draw manager
specific test case.
The GPU test base test case will be used for low level GPU tests.
