It's effectively always enabled, only not on some unsupported OpenCL devices.
For testing those it's not useful to disable these features. This is replaced
by the more fine grained feature toggles that we have now.
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
Displacement and Background kernels are selectively used, but always compiled. This patch will not compile these kernels when they are not needed.
Displacement kernel is only used for true displacement.
Background kernel is only used when there is a (Cycles)Light of type `LIGHT_BACKGROUND`.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Tags: #cycles
Maniphest Tasks: T61971
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4412
We've had many reported crashes on Windows where we suspect there is a
corrupted OpenCL driver. The purpose here is to keep Blender generally
usable in such cases.
Now it always shows None / CUDA / OpenCL in the preferences, and only when
selecting one will it reveal if there are any GPUs available. This should
avoid crashes when opening the preferences or on startup.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4265
This commit adds a sample-based profiler that runs during CPU rendering and collects statistics on time spent in different parts of the kernel (ray intersection, shader evaluation etc.) as well as time spent per material and object.
The results are currently not exposed in the user interface or per Python yet, to see the stats on the console pass the "--cycles-print-stats" argument to Cycles (e.g. "./blender -- --cycles-print-stats").
Unfortunately, there is no clear way to extend this functionality to CUDA or OpenCL, so it is CPU-only for now.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey, swerner
Reviewed By: brecht, swerner
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3892
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.
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 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
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
* 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
* Use common TextureInfo struct for all devices, except CUDA fermi.
* Move image sampling code to kernels/*/kernel_*_image.h files.
* Use arrays for data textures on Fermi too, so device_vector<Struct> works.
Image textures were being packed into a single buffer for OpenCL, which
limited the amount of memory available for images to the size of one
buffer (usually 4gb on AMD hardware). By packing textures into multiple
buffers that limit is removed, while simultaneously reducing the number
of buffers that need to be passed to each kernel.
Benchmarks were within 2%.
Fixes T51554.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2745
