C++ requires specific alignment of the allocations which was not an
issue when using GCC but uncovered issue when using Clang on OSX.
Perhaps some versions of Clang might show errors on other platforms
as well.
We don't have vectors re-allocation happening multiple times from inside
a loop anymore, so we can safely switch to a memory guarded allocator for
vectors and keep track on the memory usage at various stages of rendering.
Additionally, when building from inside Blender repository, Cycles will
use Blender's guarded allocator, so actual memory usage will be displayed
in the Space Info header.
There are couple of tricky aspects of the patch:
- TaskScheduler::exit() now explicitly frees memory used by `threads`.
This is needed because `threads` is a static member which destructor
isn't getting called on Blender's exit which caused memory leak print
to happen.
This shouldn't give any measurable speed issues, reallocation of that
vector is only one of fewzillion other allocations happening during
synchronization.
- Use regular guarded malloc (not aligned one). No idea why it was
made to be aligned in the first place. Perhaps some corner case tests
or so. Vector was never expected to be aligned anyway. Let's see if
we'll have actual bugs with this.
Reviewers: dingto, lukasstockner97, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1774
This way we solve possible issues caused by regular allocator not being aware of
some classes preferring 16 bytes alignment needed for SSE to work properly. This
caused random crashes during rendering.
Now we always use aligned allocation in GuardedAllocator which shouldn't be any
measurable performance impact and the code is only used by developers after
defining special symbol, so there is no impact on release builds at all.
It's actually a bad level call, but it's inside ifdef block and disabled by
default and only intended to be used for development purposes.
Main idea of this change is to combine statistics coming from Cycles and
Blender during scene synchronization step, to see if further changes are
actually reducing memory footprint.
The commit implements a guarded allocator which can be used by STL classes
such as vectors, maps and so on. This allocator will keep track of current
and peak memory usage which then can be queried.
New code for allocator is only active when building Cycles with debug flag
(WITH_CYCLES_DEBUG) and doesn't distort regular builds too much.
Additionally now we're using own subclass of std::vector which allows us
to implement shrink_to_fit() method which would ensure capacity of the
vector is as big as it should be (without this making vector smaller will
still use all previous memory allocated).
