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2017-06-10	Cycles: Add kernel to enqueue inactive rays	Mai Lavelle
	The queue will be used to make reuse of inactive threads to keep the GPU more busy.
2017-05-16	Cycles: Fix building with native only option	Mai Lavelle
	Approach suggested by Lukas S.
2017-05-07	Cycles: Implement denoising option for reducing noise in the rendered image	Lukas Stockner
	This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option, which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible. To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation time. Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future. Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project: - Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development - The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details on them will be included in the technical docs) - The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review! - And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things that could and/or should work better!
2017-05-03	Cycles: Split kernel - sort shaders	Hristo Gueorguiev
	Reduce thread divergence in kernel_shader_eval. Rays are sorted in blocks of 2048 according to shader->id. On R9 290 Classroom is ~30% faster, and Pabellon Barcelone is ~8% faster. No sorting for CUDA split kernel. Reviewers: sergey, maiself Reviewed By: maiself Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2598
2017-05-02	Cycles: Branched path tracing for the split kernel	Mai Lavelle
	This implements branched path tracing for the split kernel. General approach is to store the ray state at a branch point, trace the branched ray as normal, then restore the state as necessary before iterating to the next part of the path. A state machine is used to advance the indirect loop state, which avoids the need to add any new kernels. Each iteration the state machine recreates as much state as possible from the stored ray to keep overall storage down. Its kind of hard to keep all the different integration loops in sync, so this needs lots of testing to make sure everything is working correctly. We should probably start trying to deduplicate the integration loops more now. Nonbranched BMW is ~2% slower, while classroom is ~2% faster, other scenes could use more testing still. Reviewers: sergey, nirved Reviewed By: nirved Subscribers: Blendify, bliblubli Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2611
2017-03-29	Cycles: Make all #include statements relative to cycles source directory	Sergey Sharybin
	The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being picked up. For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node and cases like that. Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming from. This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing this. Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move forward. Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto Subscribers: brecht Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
2017-03-16	Cycles: Define ccl_local variables in kernel functions	Sergey Sharybin
	Declaring ccl_local in a device function is not supported by certain compilers.
2017-03-09	Cycles: split kernel_shadow_blocked to AO & DL parts	Hristo Gueorguiev
	Reduces memory allocation for split kernel. This allows for faster rendering due to bigger global size, specially when GPU memory is limited. Perfromance results: R9 290 total render time Before After Change BMW 4:37 4:34 -1.1 % Classroom 14:43 14:30 -1.5 % Fishy Cat 11:20 11:04 -2.4 % Koro 12:11 12:04 -1.0 % Pabellon Barcelona 22:01 20:44 -5.8 % Pabellon Barcelona() 15:32 15:09 -2.5 % () without glossy connected to volume
2017-03-09	Cycles: SSS and Volume rendering in split kernel	Hristo Gueorguiev
	Decoupled ray marching is not supported yet. Transparent shadows are always enabled for volume rendering. Changes in kernel/bvh and kernel/geom are from Sergey. This simiplifies code significantly, and prepares it for record-all transparent shadow function in split kernel.
2017-03-08	Cycles: Remove sum_all_radiance kernel	Mai Lavelle
	This was only needed for the previous implementation of parallel samples. As we don't have that any more it can be removed. Real reason for removal tho is this: `per_sample_output_buffers` was being calculated too small and artifacts resulted. The tile buffer is already the correct size and calculating the size for `per_sample_output_buffers` is a bit difficult with the current layout of the code. As `per_sample_output_buffers` was only needed for `sum_all_radiance`, removing that kernel and writing output to the tile buffer directly fixes the artifacts.
2017-03-08	Cycles: Split path initialization into own kernel	Mai Lavelle
	This makes it easier to initialize things correctly in the data_init kernel before they are needed by path tracing.
2017-03-08	Cycles: CPU implementation of split kernel	Mai Lavelle

2016-07-18	Fix Cycles kernel build without render passes support.	Brecht Van Lommel

2016-05-20	Cycles: Fix long compile time with MSVC.	Thomas Dinges
	Compile time per kernel increased alot after recent image commits, re-shuffle some code to fix this. Patch by "LazyDodo". Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2012
2016-01-15	Cycles-Bake: Custom Baking passes	Dalai Felinto
	The combined pass is built with the contributions the user finds fit. It is useful for lightmap baking, as well as non-view dependent effects baking. The manual will be updated once we get closer to the 2.77 release. Meanwhile the new page can be found here: http://dalaifelinto.com/blender-manual/render/cycles/baking.html Reviewers: sergey, brecht Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1674
2015-12-30	Cycles: Optionally output luminance from the shader evaluation kernel	Sergey Sharybin
	This makes it possible to move some parts of evaluation from host to the device and hopefully reduce memory usage by avoid having full RGBA buffer on the host. Reviewers: juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, brecht Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, brecht Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1702
2015-12-30	Cycles: Deduplicte CPU kernel declaration and definition code	Sergey Sharybin
	Main goal is to make kernel signatures editing easier and less prone to the errors caused by missing function signature update or so. This will also make it easier to add new CPU architectures. Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97, brecht Reviewed By: dingto, lukasstockner97, brecht Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1703