Cycles: Free caches used by the synchronized objects

Issue this commit is addressed to is that particle system and particle modifier
will contain caches once derived mesh was requested and this cached data will
never be freed.

This could easily lead to unwanted memory peaks during synchronization stage
of rendering.

The idea is to have RNA function in object which would free caches which can't
be freed otherwise. This function is not intended to deal with derived final
since it might be used by other objects (for example by object with boolean
modifier).

This cache freeing is only happening in the background rendering and locked
interface rendering.

From quick tests with victor file this change reduces peak memory usage by
command line rendering by around 6% (1780MB vs. 1883MB). For rendering from
the interface it's about 12% (1763MB vs. 1998MB).

Reviewers: campbellbarton, lukastoenne

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1121

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_object.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_object.h
index 46ec4697737..1c6f7221bec 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_object.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_object.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ void BKE_object_update_base_layer(struct Scene *scene, struct Object *ob);
 void BKE_object_free(struct Object *ob);
 void BKE_object_free_ex(struct Object *ob, bool do_id_user);
 void BKE_object_free_derived_caches(struct Object *ob);
+void BKE_object_free_caches(struct Object *object);
 
 void BKE_object_modifier_hook_reset(struct Object *ob, struct HookModifierData *hmd);