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This commit contains all the work related on the AMD megakernel split work
which was mainly done by Varun Sundar, George Kyriazis and Lenny Wang, plus
some help from Sergey Sharybin, Martijn Berger, Thomas Dinges and likely
someone else which we're forgetting to mention.
Currently only AMD cards are enabled for the new split kernel, but it is
possible to force split opencl kernel to be used by setting the following
environment variable: CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1.
Not all the features are supported yet, and that being said no motion blur,
camera blur, SSS and volumetrics for now. Also transparent shadows are
disabled on AMD device because of some compiler bug.
This kernel is also only implements regular path tracing and supporting
branched one will take a bit. Branched path tracing is exposed to the
interface still, which is a bit misleading and will be hidden there soon.
More feature will be enabled once they're ported to the split kernel and
tested.
Neither regular CPU nor CUDA has any difference, they're generating the
same exact code, which means no regressions/improvements there.
Based on the research paper:
https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/laine2013hpg_paper.pdf
Here's the documentation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LuXW-CV-sVJkQaEGZlMJ86jZ8FmoPfecaMdR-oiWbUY/edit
Design discussion of the patch:
https://developer.blender.org/T44197
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1200
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The goal is to be able to compile kernel with nodes which are actually needed
to render current scene, hence improving performance of the kernel,
The idea is:
- Have few node groups, starting with a group which contains nodes are used
really often, and then couple of groups which will be extension of this one.
- Have feature-based nodes disabling, so it's possible to disable nodes related
to features which are not used with the currently used nodes group.
This commit only lays down needed routines for this approach, actual split will
happen later after gathering statistics from bunch of production scenes.
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This warning provided too much false-positive issues in release version of the
kernel, making it really easy to miss actual warnings.
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Was rather harmless since compiler will optimize it out, but nice to get
rid of this anyway.
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Basically title says it all. Could be not totally optimized but the code is there now.
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This was already mixed a bit, but the dot belongs there.
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This commit implements traversal for QBVH tree, which is based on the old loop
code for traversal itself and Embree for node intersection.
This commit also does some changes to the loop inspired by Embree:
- Visibility flags are only checked for primitives.
Doing visibility check for every node cost quite reasonable amount of time
and in most cases those checks are true-positive.
Other idea here would be to do visibility checks for leaf nodes only, but
this would need to be investigated further.
- For minimum hair width we extend all the nodes' bounding boxes.
Again doing curve visibility check is quite costly for each of the nodes and
those checks returns truth for most of the hierarchy anyway.
There are number of possible optimization still, but current state is good
enough in terms it makes rendering faster a little bit after recent watertight
commit.
Currently QBVH is only implemented for CPU with SSE2 support at least. All
other devices would need to be supported later (if that'd make sense from
performance point of view).
The code is enabled for compilation in kernel. but blender wouldn't use it
still.
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Most of them are not currently used but are essential for the further work.
- CPU kernels with SSE2 support will now have sse3b, sse3f and sse3i
- Added templatedversions of min4, max4 which are handy to use with register
variables.
- Added util_swap function which gets arguments by pointers.
So hopefully it'll be a portable version of std::swap.
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Add compile-time check for particular glibc version which fixed the issue.
This makes it so own-compiled blender is the fastest in the world, and the
only issue remains what should we do for release builds.
After some discussion with Campbell we decided to keep it as is for now
because slowdown is not that much noticeable. We'll disable this workaround
for release builds when all the majority of the distros will switch to the
new version of glibc.
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It is per-material setting which could be found under the Volume settings
in the material and world context buttons.
There could still be some code-wise improvements, like using variable-size
macro for interp3d instead of having interp3d_ex to which you can pass the
interpolation method.
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This is the first step towards supporting cubic interpolation for voxel
data (such as smoke and fire). It is not epxosed to the interface at all
yet, this is to be done soon after this change.
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include the parens around value before cast,
in some cases was causing double/float promotion by only casting the left value.
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Single precision exponent on 64bit linux tends to be order of magnitude slower
than double precision version even with single<->double precision conversion.
Some feedback in the mailing lists also suggests that logf() is also slow, but
this i didn't confirm here in the studio yet.
Depending on the shader setup it gives ~3% with the secret agent shot and up to
around 15% with the bmw scene here.
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This makes the code a bit easier to understand, and might come in handy
if we want to reuse more Embree code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D482
Code by Brecht, with fixes by Lockal, Sergey and myself.
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This was faster for my AMD system but slower for Intel.
However with gcc4.9,-O3 I was able to get roughly the same speed before/after.
Revert since this isnt giving such clear benefits on most systems.
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Gives ~3% speedup for image.blend test, and 6% for image heavy file.
Overall speedup in real-world use is likely much less.
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All textures are sampled bi-linear currently with the exception of OSL there texture sampling is fixed and set to smart bi-cubic.
This patch adds user control to this setting.
Added:
- bits to DNA / RNA in the form of an enum for supporting multiple interpolations types
- changes to the image texture node drawing code ( add enum)
- to ImageManager (this needs to know to allocate second texture when interpolation type is different)
- to node compiler (pass on interpolation type)
- to device tex_alloc this also needs to get the concept of multiple interpolation types
- implementation for doing non interpolated lookup for cuda and cpu
- implementation where we pass this along to osl ( this makes OSL also do linear untill I add smartcubic to the interface / DNA/ RNA)
Reviewers: brecht, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: dingto, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D317
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MSVC 2008 ignores alignement attribute when assigning from unaligned
float4 vector, returned from other function. Now Cycles uses unaligned
loads instead of casts for win32 in x86 mode.
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The AVX kernel functions for reading image textures could be get used from non-AVX
kernels. These are C++ class methods and need to be marked for inlining, all other
functions are static so they don't leak into other kernels.
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Recently added SSE macros for noise texture can be moved here as well, but I leave this for later.
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More information in this post:
http://code.blender.org/
Thanks to all contributes for giving their permission!
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conversion.
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well as I would like, but it works, just add a subsurface scattering node and
you can use it like any other BSDF.
It is using fully raytraced sampling compatible with progressive rendering
and other more advanced rendering algorithms we might used in the future, and
it uses no extra memory so it's suitable for complex scenes.
Disadvantage is that it can be quite noisy and slow. Two limitations that will
be solved are that it does not work with bump mapping yet, and that the falloff
function used is a simple cubic function, it's not using the real BSSRDF
falloff function yet.
The node has a color input, along with a scattering radius for each RGB color
channel along with an overall scale factor for the radii.
There is also no GPU support yet, will test if I can get that working later.
Node Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders#BSSRDF
Implementation notes:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Subsurface_Scattering
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to OpenGL/CUDA/OSL rendering.
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Regular rendering now works tiled, and supports save buffers to save memory
during render and cache render results.
Brick texture node by Thomas.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Textures#Brick_Texture
Image texture Blended Box Mapping.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Textures#Image_Texture
http://mango.blender.org/production/blended_box/
Various bug fixes by Sergey and Campbell.
* Fix for reading freed memory in some node setups.
* Fix incorrect memory read when synchronizing mesh motion.
* Fix crash appearing when direct light usage is different on different layers.
* Fix for vector pass gives wrong result in some circumstances.
* Fix for wrong resolution used for rendering Render Layer node.
* Option to cancel rendering when doing initial synchronization.
* No more texture limit when using CPU render.
* Many fixes for new tiled rendering.
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feature enabling #defines a bit.
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By default lighting from the world is computed solely with indirect light
sampling. However for more complex environment maps this can be too noisy, as
sampling the BSDF may not easily find the highlights in the environment map
image. By enabling this option, the world background will be sampled as a lamp,
with lighter parts automatically given more samples.
Map Resolution specifies the size of the importance map (res x res). Before
rendering starts, an importance map is generated by "baking" a grayscale image
from the world shader. This will then be used to determine which parts of the
background are light and so should receive more samples than darker parts.
Higher resolutions will result in more accurate sampling but take more setup
time and memory.
Patch by Mike Farnsworth, thanks!
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* Reduce kernel arguments size, helps compile for apple nvidia.
* Fix use of unitialized variable in displace kernel.
* Use build flags in opencl kernel md5 hash.
* Reorganize code for kernel feature #defines a bit.
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* Fix excessive fireflies in Velvet BSDF (patch by David).
* Disable some unused SSE code
* Remove RTTI disabling flags for now, this is giving some compile issues and
was only needed of OSL which we're not using yet.
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modifications and build instructions will follow later.
Cycles uses code from some great open source projects, many thanks them:
* BVH building and traversal code from NVidia's "Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs":
http://code.google.com/p/understanding-the-efficiency-of-ray-traversal-on-gpus/
* Open Shading Language for a large part of the shading system:
http://code.google.com/p/openshadinglanguage/
* Blender for procedural textures and a few other nodes.
* Approximate Catmull Clark subdivision from NVidia Mesh tools:
http://code.google.com/p/nvidia-mesh-tools/
* Sobol direction vectors from:
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~fkuo/sobol/
* Film response functions from:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/software/softlib/dorf.php
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