This brings separate initialization for libcuda and libnvrtc, which
fixes Cycles nvrtc compilation not working on build machines without
CUDA hardware available.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3045
We should actually be using CL_DEVICE_MEM_BASE_ADDR_ALIGN for sub buffers,
previous change in this code was incorrect. Renamed the function now to
make the specific purpose of this alignment clear, it's not required for
data types in general.
This patch changes the huge list of projects in visual studio into a nice tree matching the source folder structure. see D2823 for details.
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D2823
nvcc is very picky regarding compiler versions, severely limiting the compiler we can use, this commit adds a nvrtc based compiler that'll allow us to build the cubins even if the host compiler is unsupported. for details see D2913.
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D2913
This was we can introduce other types of BVH, for example, wider ones, without
causing too much mess around boolean flags.
Thoughs:
- Ideally device info should probably return bitflag of what BVH types it
supports.
It is possible to implement based on simple logic in device/ and mesh.cpp,
rest of the changes will stay the same.
- Not happy with workarounds in util_debug and duplicated enum in kernel.
Maybe enbum should be stores in kernel, but then it's kind of weird to include
kernel types from utils. Soudns some cyclkic dependency.
Reviewers: brecht, maxim_d33
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3011
Debug flags are to be controlling render behavior, nothing to do with low level
system utilities.
it was simple to hack, but logically is wrong. Lets do things where they are
supposed to be done!
In that case it can now fall back to CPU memory, at the cost of reduced
performance. For scenes that fit in GPU memory, this commit should not
cause any noticeable slowdowns.
We don't use all physical system RAM, since that can cause OS instability.
We leave at least half of system RAM or 4GB to other software, whichever
is smaller.
For image textures in host memory, performance was maybe 20-30% slower
in our tests (although this is highly hardware and scene dependent). Once
other type of data doesn't fit on the GPU, performance can be e.g. 10x
slower, and at that point it's probably better to just render on the CPU.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2056
Previously, the NLM kernels would be launched once per offset with one thread per pixel.
However, with the smaller tile sizes that are now feasible, there wasn't enough work to fully occupy GPUs which results in a significant slowdown.
Therefore, the kernels are now launched in a single call that handles all offsets at once.
This has two downsides: Memory accesses to accumulating buffers are now atomic, and more importantly, the temporary memory now has to be allocated for every shift at once, increasing the required memory.
On the other hand, of course, the smaller tiles significantly reduce the size of the memory.
The main bottleneck right now is the construction of the transformation - there is nothing to be parallelized there, one thread per pixel is the maximum.
I tried to parallelize the SVD implementation by storing the matrix in shared memory and launching one block per pixel, but that wasn't really going anywhere.
To make the new code somewhat readable, the handling of rectangular regions was cleaned up a bit and commented, it should be easier to understand what's going on now.
Also, some variables have been renamed to make the difference between buffer width and stride more apparent, in addition to some general style cleanup.
Goal is to reduce OpenCL kernel recompilations.
Currently viewport renders are still set to use 64 closures as this seems to
be faster and we don't want to cause a performance regression there. Needs
to be investigated.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2775
This is a prequisite for getting host memory allocation to work. There appears
to be no support for 3D textures using host memory. The original version of
this code was written by Stefan Werner for D2056.
Some drivers may report very large allocation sizes, which could cause
unnecessary memory usage. This is now limited to 2gb which should
still be enough to get the needed performance benefits without waste.
* Remove tex_* and pixels_* functions, replace by mem_*.
* Add MEM_TEXTURE and MEM_PIXELS as memory types recognized by devices.
* No longer create device_memory and call mem_* directly, always go
through device_only_memory, device_vector and device_pixels.
CPU rendering will be restricted to a BVH2, which is not ideal for raytracing
performance but can be shared with the GPU. Decoupled volume shading will be
disabled to match GPU volume sampling.
The number of CPU rendering threads is reduced to leave one core dedicated to
each GPU. Viewport rendering will also only use GPU rendering still. So along
with the BVH2 usage, perfect scaling should not be expected.
Go to User Preferences > System to enable the CPU to render alongside the GPU.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2873
This change affects CUDA GPUs not connected to a display or connected to a
display but supporting compute preemption so that the display does not
freeze. I couldn't find an official list, but compute preemption seems to be
only supported with GTX 1070+ and Linux (not GTX 1060- or Windows).
This helps improve small tile rendering performance further if there are
sufficient samples x number of pixels in a single tile to keep the GPU busy.
