It is per-material setting which could be found under the Volume settings
in the material and world context buttons.
There could still be some code-wise improvements, like using variable-size
macro for interp3d instead of having interp3d_ex to which you can pass the
interpolation method.
* CUDA can be compiled with Volume support again, change line 78 kernel_types.h for that.
Volumes are still fragile on GPU though, got some Memory/Address CUDA errors in tests.. needs to be investigated more deeply.
These are internally stored as a 3D image textures, but accessible like e.g.
UV coordinates though the attribute node and getattribute().
This is convenient for rendering e.g. smoke objects where data like density is
really a property of the mesh, and it avoids having to specify the smoke object
in a texture node, instead the material will work with any smoke domain.