Cycles: Use native saturate function for CUDA

This more a workaround for CUDA optimizer which can't optimize clamp(x, 0, 1)
into a single instruction and uses 4 instructions instead.

Original patch by @lockal with own modification:

  Don't make changes outside of the kernel. They don't make any difference
  anyway and term saturate() has a bit different meaning outside of kernel.

This gives around 2% of speedup in Barcelona file, but in more complex shader
setups with lots of math nodes with clamping speedup could be much nicer.

Subscribers: dingto

Projects: #cycles

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1224

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h b/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
index 6bb39ee485d..8910e26fcc6 100644
--- a/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
+++ b/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ccl_device_inline void kernel_write_data_passes(KernelGlobals *kg, ccl_global fl
 		float mist_inv_depth = kernel_data.film.mist_inv_depth;
 
 		float depth = camera_distance(kg, sd->P);
-		float mist = clamp((depth - mist_start)*mist_inv_depth, 0.0f, 1.0f);
+		float mist = saturate((depth - mist_start)*mist_inv_depth);
 
 		/* falloff */
 		float mist_falloff = kernel_data.film.mist_falloff;