These seem to be causing some stability issues, and really are just not that
useful in practice. Compiling them is slow already, so it does not improve
the user experience much to show an AO preview if it's not nearly instant.
Separate tile buffers on all devices only need to exist when denoising is active (so any overlap
being rendered simultaneously does not write to the same memory region).
When denoising is not active they can be distributed like all other memory when peer
memory support is available.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10858
Rendering on the CPU uses the Embree BVH layout, whether the OptiX denoiser is enabled or not.
This means the "build_bvh" function gets a "BVHEmbree" object to fill and not a "BVHMulti" as it
was assuming before, which caused crashes due to memory geting overwritten incorrectly. This
fixes that by redirecting Embree BVH builds to the Embree device.
Manifest Tasks: T83925
Adds support for building multiple BVH types in order to support using both CPU and OptiX
devices for rendering simultaneously. Primitive packing for Embree and OptiX is now
standalone, so it only needs to be run once and can be shared between the two. Additionally,
BVH building was made a device call, so that each device backend can decide how to
perform the building. The multi-device for instance creates a special multi-BVH that holds
references to several sub-BVHs, one for each sub-device.
Reviewed By: brecht, kevindietrich
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9718
Commit 009971ba7a changed it so Cycles creates a separate
Embree device for each Cycles device, but missed the multi-device case. A multi-device with
Embree BVH can occur when CPU rendering is used with OptiX denoising and BVH creation then
failed to get a valid pointer to the Embree device, which crashed. This fixes that by providing the
correct device pointer in the multi-device case as well.
Denoising devices do not need to load the full feature set of kernels, so only activate the denoising
feature for them (so that it is possible to use features that are supported by the render devices, but
not the denoising devices).
With this patch Cycles recognizing when a logical OptiX and CUDA device represent the same
physical GPU and attempts to eliminate unnecessary tile copies for viewport rendering if that
is the case for all active devices. In addition, denoising is now no longer performed on the first
available OptiX device only, but instead it will try to match CUDA and OptiX
rendering/denoising devices exactly to maximize utilization.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7975
This change modifies the multi-device implementation to support memory distribution
across devices, to reduce the overall memory footprint of large scenes and allow scenes to
fit entirely into combined GPU memory that previously had to fall back to host memory.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7426
Enabling viewport denoising causes Cycles to use a multi-device, which always returned NULL when
asked for OSL memory and would subsequently crash. This fixes that by returning the correct OSL
memory pointer from the CPU device in the special viewport denoising multi-device.
This fixes denoising being delayed until after all rendering has finished. Instead, tile-based
denoising is now part of the "RENDER" task again, so that it is all in one task and does not
cause issues with dedicated task pools where tasks are serialized.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6940
The OptiX denoiser can be a great help when rendering in the viewport, since it is really fast
and needs few samples to produce convincing results. This patch therefore adds support for
using any Cycles denoiser in the viewport also (but only the OptiX one is selectable because
the NLM one is too slow to be usable currently). It also adds support for denoising on a
different device than rendering (so one can e.g. render with the CPU but denoise with OptiX).
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6554
The acceleration structure built by OptiX may be different between GPUs, so cannot assume the memory size is the same for all.
This fixes that by moving the memory management for all OptiX acceleration structures into the responsibility of each device (was already the case for BLAS previously, now for TLAS too).
The main goals of this change is faster starting when using foreground
rendering.
This patch will build kernels in parallel to the update process of
the scene. When these optimized kernels are not available (yet) an AO
kernel will be used.
These AO kernels are fast to compile (3-7 seconds) and can be
reused by all scenes. When the final kernels become available we
will switch to these kernels.
In background mode the AO kernels will not be used.
Some kernels are being used during Scene update (displace, background
light). When these kernels are being used the process can halt until
these become available.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Maniphest Tasks: T61752
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4428
Mainly useful for debugging. Previously, when AVX2 was disabled
in the debug panel but BVH layout was kept on BVH8 nothing was
rendered.
Needed to make it so supported BVH layout mask for devices is
queried in "dynamic", so it is possible to use DebugFlags there.
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
* 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.
This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option,
which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering
to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible.
To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings
fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to
control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation
time.
Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features
are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation
denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a
flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future.
Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project:
- Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development
- The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details
on them will be included in the technical docs)
- The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for
mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review!
- And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things
that could and/or should work better!
This upgrade the drawing code to use latest opengl calls.
Also, it adds a fallback shader for opencolorio.
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Subscribers: merwin, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2652
The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the
file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being
picked up.
For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder
or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node
and cases like that.
Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some
time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming
from.
This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such
explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing
this.
Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL
support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move
forward.
Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto
Subscribers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
This is to help debug and track memory usage for generic buffers. We
have similar for textures already since those require a name, but for
buffers the name is only for debugging proposes.
