We previously had to mark the make_FunctionInterface function as
host/device as it could be used in either place. The ramifications
of this is that each time we launched a worklet any input parameter
had to either suppress cuda exceptions, or had to rely on the
DispatcherBase to suppress the warnings.
By making make_FunctionInterface only host callable ( as it is ),
we can remove all of our unneccesary suppression logic and better
expose real issues with code that is marked host/device but can't
be due to calling things such as std::abort
This adds an ExecutionSignature tag named Device that passes the
DeviceAdapterTag as an argument to the worklet's operator(). This allows
worklets to specialize their code based on the device.
Mask objects allow you to specify which output values should be
generated when a worklet is run. That is, the Mask allows you to skip
the invocation of a worklet for any number of outputs.
Rather than force all dispatchers to be templated on a device adapter,
instead use a TryExecute internally within the invoke to select a device
adapter.
Because this removes the need to declare a device when invoking a
worklet, this commit also removes the need to declare a device in
several other areas of the code.
By facilitating brigand library, we can throw a meaningful compile time
error if the placeholder in execution signature exceeds the bound in
control signature.
The original design of invoke and the transport infrastructure
relied on the implementation behavior of vtkm::cont types
such as ArrayHandle that used an internal shared_ptr to managed
state. This allowed passing by value instead of passing by
non-const ref when needing to transfer information to the device.
As VTK-m adds support for classes that use virtuals the ability
to pass by base pointer type allows for us to invoke worklets
using a base type without the risk of type slicing.
Additional by moving over to a non-const ref Invocation we
can update all transports that have 'output' to now be
by ref and therefore support types that can't be copied while
being 'more' correct.
This warning is emitted when constructing a tuple that contains
an object with `__host__`-only constructors.
warning #2885-D: calling a __host__ function(...) from a __host__ __device__ function(...) is not allowed
Previously, when a Worklet needed a scatter, the scatter object was
stored in the Worklet object. That was problematic because that means
the Scatter, which is a control object, was shoved into the execution
environment.
To prevent that, move the Scatter into the Dispatcher object. The
worklet still declares a ScatterType alias, but no longer has a
GetScatter method. Instead, the Dispatcher now takes a Scatter object in
its constructor. If using the default scatter (ScatterIdentity), the
default constructor is used. If using another type of Scatter that
requires data to set up its state, then the caller of the worklet needs
to provide that to the dispatcher. For convenience, worklets are
encouraged to have a MakeScatter method to help construct a proper
scatter object.
In trying to give error diagnostics with template definitions of invalid
types, the user encounters some pretty confusing error messages at
first. There is no way to get the compiler to give exactly the
diagnostics we want in a nice readable error message, so we are putting
some verbose instructions as comments in the code. However, a user might
not know to look at the source code since the error happens deep in an
unfamiliar (and complicated) class. Thus, add (yet another) error at the
front that gives a (hopefully) clear indication to look at the source
code for help in understanding the errors.
When one of the parameters to DispatcherBase::Invoke is incorrect, you
get an error in a strange place. It is deep in a call stack using some
heavily templated types rather than where the Invoke is actually called.
Formerly, the code was structured to give a very obfuscated error
message. Try to make this easier on users by first adding helpful hints
in the code around where the error is to explain why the error occured
and helpful advice on how to track down the problem. Second, reconfigure
the static_assert so that the compiler gives a readable error message.
Third, add some auxiliary error messages that provide additional
information about the types and classes involved in the error.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
Redesigns the TBB and Serial backends and the vtkm::exec::Task concept so that
we can re-use the same launching logic for all Worklets, instead of generating
per worlet code. To keep the performance the same the TilingTask now is past
a range of indices to work on, rather than a single index.
Binary size reduction:
WorkletTests_SERIAL old - 19MB
WorkletTests_SERIAL new - 18MB
WorkletTests_TBB old - 39MB
WorkletTests_TBB new - 18MB
libvtkAcceleratorsVTKm old - 48MB
libvtkAcceleratorsVTKm new - 19MB
Previously WorkletInvokeFunctor inherited from vtkm::exec::FunctorBase,
which is also the base class for all users Worklets and for all functors
based to DeviceAdapter::Schedule.
This is done for a few reasons. The first is that we reduce the
minimum size of user worklets. Previously the users worklet would hold
a reference to the error message, and so would the wrapper class added
when calling DeviceAdapter::Schedule. Now we only have the users worklet
holding a reference.
Second, by refactoring to have two base classes we can better improve
the documentation on what responsibilities FunctorBase.h has, compared
to TaskBase.
Previously the arguments to the operator of a vtkm::cont::arg::Transport
were the control object, the input domain object, and the output range.
If you wanted to, for example, check the size of an input array to make
sure it matched the input range, you would have to know the meaning of
the input domain object to query its range. This made it hard to create
generic transports, like TransportTagArrayIn, that accept data from
multiple different input domains but need to know the input range.
For some reason when VTK-m was being compiled as an accelerator in VTK,
Visual Studio 2013 gave a bunch of warnings about not being able to generate
assignment operators for many classes. This happened for classes with a
const ivar that could not be automatically set. (Automatic copy constructors
are fine on this count.) I'm not sure why these warnings did not happen
when just compiling VTK-m, nor am I sure why they were generated at all as
no code actually used the copy constructors.
This commit fixes the problems by adding a private declaration for assignment
operators that cannot be automatically created. No implementation is
provided, nor should any be needed.
Previously, the operator for a Transport class took the object being
transported to the execution environment and the size of the output
domain. This change also passes in the control-side argument for the
input domain. This will help check input array sizes as well as make
other potential transformations based on the input domain.
