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Author SHA1 Message Date
c29c61f840 Fix T102292: deadlock in geometry nodes evaluation with task isolation
As described in the comment on `BLI_task_isolate`, deadlocks can happen
when isolation is used with threading primitives that separate spawning tasks
from executing them. All threads are waiting the tasks to complete but no
thread is able to continue working due to task isolation.

The fix is to not pass lazy-threading hints through task isolations. This way
isolated regions can't create new tasks in a scheduler further up the call stack.
This may lead to minor slowdowns because less threading may be used.
It's generally possible to get rid of the slowdown again by sending the
lazy-threading hint before entering the isolated region.
2022-11-06 15:07:32 +01:00
5517c848bd Cleanup: spelling in comments 2022-09-21 12:00:01 +10:00
5c81d3bd46 Geometry Nodes: improve evaluator with lazy threading
In large node setup the threading overhead was sometimes very significant.
That's especially true when most nodes do very little work.

This commit improves the scheduling by not using multi-threading in many
cases unless it's likely that it will be worth it. For more details see the comments
in `BLI_lazy_threading.hh`.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15976
2022-09-20 11:08:05 +02:00