This patch enables TBB as the default task scheduler. TBB stands for Threading Building Blocks and is developed by Intel. The library contains several threading patters. This patch maps blenders BLI_task_* function to their counterpart. After this patch we can add more patterns. A promising one is TBB:graph that can be used for depsgraph, draw manager and compositor.
Performance changes depends on the actual hardware. It was tested on different hardwares from laptops to workstations and we didn't detected any downgrade of the performance.
* Linux Xeon E5-2699 v4 got FPS boost from 12 to 17 using Spring's 04_010_A.anim.blend.
* AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Animation playback goes from 9.5-10.5 FPS to 13.0-14.0 FPS on Agent 327 , 10_03_B.anim.blend.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7475
On Linux, precompiled libraries may be made with a glibc version that is
incompatible with the system libraries that Blender is built on. To solve
this we add a few -ffast-math symbols that can be missing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6930
An educated guess to put ensure order of static libraries initialization.
A bit weird, since OpenImageDenoise should be depending on TBB, but that
is likely being ensured by bf_compositor.
Linking succeeded on my Intel machine, and blenloader_test was passing
when doing manual test on buildbot.
Tests were missing a manifest, and were importing the
wrong version of Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls
causing blenloader_test, bmesh_core_test and alembic_test
to fail due a loader error.
This new test class minimally sets up Blender so that it can load blend
files and construct a depsgraph without crashing.
Note that it hasn't been tested on very complex blend files, so it may
still crash when the loaded blend file references/requires uninitialised
data structures.
The test will certainly crash with Blend files created with Blender
older than 2.80, as the versioning code requires space types to be
registered. This is normally done by initialising the window manager,
which is not done in this test. The WM requires Python to run, which in
turn requires that Blender finds the release directory in the same
directory that contains the running executable, which is not the case
for GTest tests (they are written to `bin/tests/executablename`.
Reviewed By: sergey, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6246
Problem was twofold
1) `GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG` is a property not a variable so
the test for it would always be false, unless you set a custom
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (like the buildbot does) the unit tests
would have a wrong working directory and complain about missing
dlls or blender executable
2) Tests added outside of `/test` (like libmv) would have no working
folder set since the variable would not be visible for them.
consulted @sergey who voiced the opinion that duplicating the code
to the test macro was slightly less evil than moving it to the main
CMakeLists.txt
In some heavy rigs matrix inverse can be 10% of computation time. This
reduces it to 2% by using Eigen's optimized 4x4 matrix inverse and SSE
matrix multiplication.
It is disabled by default, so should not affect existing configurations.
Main benefits of this goes as:
- Linux distros can use that to avoid libraries duplication and link
blender package against gflags package from the system.
- It it easier to test whether Blender works with updated version of
Gflags prior to re-bundling the library.
Currently the tests don't run on windows for the following reasons
1) render_graph_finalize has an linking issue due missing a bunch of libraries (not sure why this is not an issue for linux)
2) This one is more interesting, in test/python/cmakelists.txt ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE_BARE} and ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE} are flat out wrong, but for some reason this doesn't matter for most tests, cause ctest will actually go out and look for the executable and fix the path for you *BUT* only for the command, if you use them in any of the parameters it'll happily pass on the wrong path.
3) on linux you can just run a .py file, windows is not as awesome and needs to be told to run it with pyton.
4) had to use the NAME/COMMAND long form of add_test otherwise $<TARGET_FILE:blender> doesn't get expanded, why? beats me.
5) missing idiff.exe for msvc2015/x64 in the libs folder.
This patch addresses 1-4 , but given I have no working Linux build environment, I'm unsure if it'll break anything there
5 has been fixed in rBL61751
Reviewers: juicyfruit, brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: sergey
Subscribers: Blendify
Tags: #cycles, #automated_testing
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2367
Unfortunately this doesn't make all tests compilable due
to all sort of weird and wonderful bad levels includes
on Windows (G referenced from bf_blenlib) but at least
allows to selectively build tests for now.
The idea is to split them into two separate targets and have dedicated include
directories list for each of them in order to avoid some annoying include header
modifications in comparison with upstream.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1706
Generally for build systems, libraries that do not depend on other
libraries, such as system libraries, OpenGL etc always go at the end.
We could even get rid of some duplicate dependency libraries here but
auto duplication by build systems and differences between OSs make this
difficult.
GTest still duplicates all libraries twice to solve some issues which is
weird (maybe libs are not sorted correctly for some reason? needs
investigation)
