Reduces the GLSL to MSL translation stage of shader compilation from 120 ms to 5 ms for complex EEVEE materials. This manifests in faster overall compilations, and faster cache hits for secondary compilations, as the MSL variant is needed as a key.
Startup time is also improved for both first-run and second-run. Note that this change does not affect shader compilation times within the Metal API.
Also disables shader output to disk
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Depends on D16990
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17033
Replace texelFetch calls with a texture point-sample rather than a textureRead call. This increases texture cache utilisation when mixing between sampled calls and reads. Bounds checking can also be removed from these functions, reducing instruction count and branch divergence, as the sampler routine handles range clamping.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Depends on D16923
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17021
This patch adds support for compilation and execution of GLSL compute shaders. This, along with a few systematic changes and fixes, enable realtime compositor functionality with the Metal backend on macOS. A number of GLSL source modifications have been made to add the required level of type explicitness, allowing all compilations to succeed.
GLSL Compute shader compilation follows a similar path to Vertex/Fragment translation, with added support for shader atomics, shared memory blocks and barriers.
Texture flags have also been updated to ensure correct read/write specification for textures used within the compositor pipeline. GPU command submission changes have also been made in the high level path, when Metal is used, to address command buffer time-outs caused by certain expensive compute shaders.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Ref T99210
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T99210, T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16990
AMD GPUs do not appear to produce consistent results with other GPUs when using textureGather in the Metal backend. Disabling for now to ensure correct function of outline rendering.
This may require an additional sub-pixel offset in the texture sampling calls, to achieve correct behaviour.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T103412
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T103412, T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16934
This patch fixes an issue where Blender 3.5 alpha with the Metal GPU backend enabled on Japanese macOS fails to compile shaders and crashes on startup.
In a Japanese environment, `defaultCStringEncoding` is the legacy MacJapanese encoding, and it erroneously converts backslashes (0x5c) to Yen symbols (¥).
Therefore, Metal shader compile fails with the following log and Blender crashes.
```
2022-12-29 13:50:10.200 Blender[13404:246707] Compile Error - Metal Shader Library (Stage: 0), error Error Domain=MTLLibraryErrorDomain Code=3 "program_source:225:74: error: non-ASCII characters are not allowed outside of literals and identifiers
template<typename T, access A = access::sample> struct STRUCT_NAME { ¥
^
program_source:226:14: error: no template named 'TEX_TYPE'
thread TEX_TYPE<T, A> *texture; ¥
^
program_source:226:39: error: non-ASCII characters are not allowed outside of literals and identifiers
thread TEX_TYPE<T, A> *texture; ¥
^
program_source:227:29: error: non-ASCII characters are not allowed outside of literals and identifiers
thread sampler *samp; ¥
^
...
```
We can use `stringWithUTF8String` instead.
Reviewed By: fclem, MichaelPW
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16881
`batch_for_shader` is an utility function that creates the correct
vertex buffer based on the given shader. In the shader interface
the `attr_types_` contains the GPUType for each location in the
vertex buffer.
When using Metal, the `attr_types_` was never updated, resulting
in using incorrect or non-existing data types. This patch fixes
this by updating the `attr_types_` when building the shader
interface.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17042
Implementation didn't count the string terminator when allocating
memory to store `msl_patch_default`. The string terminator could
be overwritted by other memory adding some undefined behavior.
* Add missing constructor for squared matrix types.
* Use using instead of define for typenames.
* Add `==, !=, unary-` operators
* Catch all functional style constructors inside the regex
The Metal backend already supports output for the 6 clipping planes via gl_ClipDistances equivalent, however, functionality to toggle clipping plane enablement was missing.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Depends on D16777
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16813
- Support for non-contiguous shader resource bindings for all cases required by create-info
- Implement missing geometry shader alternative path for edit curve handle.
- Add support for non-float dummy textures to address all cases where default bindings may be required.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Depends on D16721
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16777
Implementing non-geometry-shader path for rendering stencil shadows,
used by the workbench engine.
Patch also contains a few small modifications to Create-info to ensure
usage of gl_FragDepth is explicitly specified.
This is required for testing of the patch.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16436
Required by Metal backend for efficient shader compilation. EEVEE material
resource binding permutations now controlled via CreateInfo and selected
based on material options. Other existing CreateInfo's also modified to
ensure explicitness for depth-writing mode. Other missing bindings also
addressed to ensure full compliance with the Metal backend.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16243
MTLContext provides functionality for command encoding, binding management and graphics device management. MTLImmediate provides simple draw enablement with dynamically encoded data. These draws utilise temporary scratch buffer memory to provide minimal bandwidth overhead during workload submission.
This patch also contains empty placeholders for MTLBatch and MTLDrawList to enable testing of first pixels on-screen without failure.
The Metal API also requires access to the GHOST_Context to ensure the same pre-initialized Metal GPU device is used by the viewport. Given the explicit nature of Metal, explicit control is also needed over presentation, to ensure correct work scheduling and rendering pipeline state.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
(The diff is based on 043f59cb3b)
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15953
Full support for translation and compilation of shaders in Metal, using
GPUShaderCreateInfo. Includes render pipeline state creation and management,
enabling all standard GPU viewport rendering features in Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White, Marco Giordano
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15563
