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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2017-06-10	Cycles: Pass all buffers to each kernel call for OpenCL	Mai Lavelle
	Technically not passing all buffers used by a kernel is undefined behavior. We haven't had any issues with this so far on AMD or Nvidia, but it's known to be a problem with Intel and we received a report from AMD that this is a problem on newer hardware, so we need to make this change at some point. Unfortunately there a cost to being correct, about 5% for the benchmark scenes. For low sample counts it's even worse, I've seen up to 50% slowdown. For the latter case I think adjusting tile updating logic can help, but not sure what that would look like yet (it would be just a few lines change however).
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.
2017-03-16	Cycles: Workaround for compilation error caused by passing KernelGlobals	Sergey Sharybin
	Pass globals as a bare pointer, same as it sued to be prior to split kernel rework. AMD CPU platform and Intel OpenCL were complaining about this. Perhaps we shouldn't pass globals as pointer at all, this isn't something what is really portable and can cause issues on 32 bit perhaps.
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.