This patch optimises subsurface intersection queries on MetalRT. Currently intersect_local traverses from the scene root, retrospectively discarding all non-local hits. Using a lookup of bottom level acceleration structures, we can explicitly query only the relevant instance. On M1 Max, with MetalRT selected, this can give a render speedup of 15-20% for scenes like Monster which make heavy use of subsurface scattering.
Patch authored by Marco Giordano.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17153
This patch adds two new kernels: SORT_BUCKET_PASS and SORT_WRITE_PASS. These replace PREFIX_SUM and SORTED_PATHS_ARRAY on supported devices (currently implemented on Metal, but will be trivial to enable on the other backends). The new kernels exploit sort partitioning (see D15331) by sorting each partition separately using local atomics. This can give an overall render speedup of 2-3% depending on architecture. As before, we fall back to the original non-partitioned sorting when the shader count is "too high".
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16909
Also minor changes in comments:
- Reference BLENDER_HISTORY_FILE instead of the literal file-name
(simplifies looking up usage).
- Use usernames in tags, as noted in code-style.
Speckles and missing lights were experienced in scenes with Nishita Sky
Texture and a Sun Size smaller than 1.5°, such as in Lone Monk and Attic
scenes.
Increasing the precision of cosf fixes it.
While keeping SSE2, SSE4.1 and AVX2. This does not affect hardware support, it
only slightly reduces performance for some older CPUs.
To reduce maintenance cost and improve compile times.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16978
This functionality is related only to debugging of SYCL implementation
via single-threaded CPU execution and is disabled by default.
Host device has been deprecated in SYCL 2020 spec and we removed it
in 305b92e05f.
Since this is still very useful for debugging, we're restoring a
similar functionality here through SYCL 2020 Host Task.
This adds a new mirror image extension type for shaders and
geometry nodes (next to the existing repeat, extend and clip
options).
See D16432 for a more detailed explanation of `wrap_mirror`.
This also adds a new sampler flag `GPU_SAMPLER_MIRROR_REPEAT`.
It acts as a modifier to `GPU_SAMPLER_REPEAT`, so any `REPEAT`
flag must be set for the `MIRROR` flag to have an effect.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16432
In this case the blocksize may not the one we requested, which was assumed to be
the case. Instead get the effective block size from the compiler as was already
done for Metal and OneAPI.
This patch generalizes the OSL support in Cycles to include GPU
device types and adds an implementation for that in the OptiX
device. There are some caveats still, including simplified texturing
due to lack of OIIO on the GPU and a few missing OSL intrinsics.
Note that this is incomplete and missing an update to the OSL
library before being enabled! The implementation is already
committed now to simplify further development.
Maniphest Tasks: T101222
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15902
The distinction existed for legacy reasons, to easily port of Embree
intersection code without affecting the main vector types. However we are now
using SIMD for these types as well, so no good reason to keep the distinction.
Also more consistently pass these vector types by value in inline functions.
Previously it was partially changed for functions used by Metal to avoid having
to add address space qualifiers, simple to do it everywhere.
Also removes function declarations for vector math headers, serves no real
purpose.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16146
Known Issues:
- Command buffer failures when using binary archives (binary archives is disabled for Intel GPUs as a workaround)
- Wrong texture sampler being applied (to be addressed in the future)
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92212
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16253
Test kernel will now test functionalities related to kernel execution
with USM memory allocations instead of with SYCL buffers and accessors
as these aren't currently used in the backend.
JIT compilation of oneAPI kernels now happens during load stage
and proper message gets shown in the GUI during compilation.
Also, this implementation skips kernels that aren't needed for
the used scene, reducing overall (re)compilation time.
This is a minimal set of changes, allowing a lot of cleanup that can
happen afterward as it allows sycl method and objects to be used outside
of kernel.cpp.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15397
This patch optimises the Metal inlining policy. It gives a small speedup (2-3% on M1 Max) with no notable compilation slowdown vs what is already in master. Previously noted compilation slowdowns (as reported in T100102) were caused by forcing inlining for `ccl_device`, but we get better rendering perf by relying on compiler heuristics in these cases.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16081
This adds path guiding features into Cycles by integrating Intel's Open Path
Guiding Library. It can be enabled in the Sampling > Path Guiding panel in the
render properties.
This feature helps reduce noise in scenes where finding a path to light is
difficult for regular path tracing.
The current implementation supports guiding directional sampling decisions on
surfaces, when the material contains a least one diffuse component, and in
volumes with isotropic and anisotropic Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.
On surfaces, the guided sampling decision is proportional to the product of
the incident radiance and the normal-oriented cosine lobe and in volumes it
is proportional to the product of the incident radiance and the phase function.
The incident radiance field of a scene is learned and updated during rendering
after each per-frame rendering iteration/progression.
At the moment, path guiding is only supported by the CPU backend. Support for
GPU backends will be added in future versions of OpenPGL.
Ref T92571
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15286
Windows drivers 101.3430 fix an important GUI-related crash and it's
best to prevent users from running into it.
Linux drivers weren't affected but still had relevant gpu binary
compatibility fixes, so it makes sense to keep the min-supported version
aligned across OSes.
Now explicitly including math.h first before #defining funcitons.
This avoids undefined behavior and improves compatibility with
different SYCL compilers and backends.
The recent revert of Apple silicon inlining changes to avoid long compile times
worked on macOS 12, but in macOS 13 Beta it results in render errors. This may
be a compiler bug and perhaps get fixed in time, but try to be on the safe side
and ensure Blender 3.3.0 works regardless.
This brings part of the inlining back, which brings improved performance but
also longer compiler times again. Compile time is around 2min now, where the
previous full inlining was about 5-7min.
Patch by Michael Jones.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15897
sycl/L0 runtime reports compute-runtime version since Intel graphics
driver 101.3268 on Windows, when querying driver version from sycl.
Prior to this driver, it was 0. Now we can bump minimum requirement to
this one and filter-out devices returning 0.
Maniphest Tasks: T100648
This gave a 1.1x speedup, however also leads to very long compile times
that make it seems like Blender has stopped working.
This can be brought back in the future behind an option that users can
explicitly enabled.
Fix T100102
Ref D14923, D14763, T92212
Now all the same ones are available on CPU and GPU, which was previously not
possible due to lack of operator overloadng in OpenCL. Print functions are
no-ops on some GPUs.
Ref D15535
It should consistently use the Cycles pirmitive ID for self intersection detection,
not the one from the OptiX or Embree acceleration structure.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15632
Recently, performance with oneAPI have regressed due some recent
changes in Blender itself. This commit's changes is resolving this
and also improve compilation time for oneAPI backend first
execution (or Blender compilation time in case of AoT).
Regression have appeared after 5152c7c152 and not related to the
changes itself, but increase of kernels complexity introduced with
it. Changes in this commit is marking some Blender functions as
noinlined for oneAPI backend, which helps GPU compiler to deal with
this complexity without any negative side-effects on performance.
* OneAPI: remove separate float3 definition
* OneAPI: disable operator[] to match other GPUs
* OneAPI: make int3 compact to match other GPUs
* Use #pragma once
* Add __KERNEL_NATIVE_VECTOR_TYPES__ to simplify checks
* Remove unused vector3
Simplifies intersection code a little and slightly improves precision regarding
self intersection.
The parametric texture coordinate in shader nodes is still the same as before
for compatibility.
