In preparation of supporting vulkan. Draw/GPU tests should use
GPU_TEST or DRAW_TEST macros. These macros will run the test
on available drawing context backends like OpenGL or Vulkan.
As in master there is only an OpenGL backend nothing changed.
One drawback to trying to predict the number of threads that will be
used in the `task_graph` is that we are only sure of the number when the
threads are running.
Using `BLI_task_parallel_range` allows the driver to
choose the best thread distribution through `parallel_reduce`.
The benefit is most evident on hardware with fewer cores.
This is the result on an 4-core laptop:
||before:|after:
|---|---|---|
|large_mesh_editing:|Average: 5.203638 FPS|Average: 5.398925 FPS
||rdata 15ms iter 43ms (frame 193ms)|rdata 14ms iter 36ms (frame 187ms)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11558
Current index builder is designed to be used in a single thread.
This makes all index buffer extractions single threaded.
This patch adds a thread safe solution enabling multithreaded
building of index buffers.
To reduce locking the solution would provide a task/thread local
index buffer builder (called sub builder).
When a thread is finished this thread local index buffer builder
can be joined with the initial index buffer builder.
`GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_init`: Initialized a sub builder. The
index list is shared between the parent and sub buffer, but the
counters are localized. Ensuring that updating counters would
not need any locking.
`GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_finish`: merge the information of the
sub builder back to the parent builder. Needs to be invoked outside
the worker thread, or when sure that all worker threads have been
finished. Internal the function is not thread safe.
For testing purposes the extract_points extractor has been migrated to
the new API. Herefore changes to the mesh extractor were needed.
* When creating tasks, the task number of current task is stored in
ExtractTaskData including the total number of tasks.
* Adding two functions in `MeshExtract`.
** `task_init` will initialize the task specific userdata.
** `task_finish` should merge back the task specific userdata back.
* adding task_id parameter to the iteration functions so they can
access the correct task data without any need for locking.
There is no noticeable change in end user performance.
Reviewed By: mano-wii
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11499
