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authorVito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>2023-08-19 09:29:18 -0700
committerVito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>2023-08-19 12:11:09 -0700
commitacdb14ebe504c0a0c361bc9bdb306fcfcebe2b8a (patch)
tree1fcfb58c1040dcca09c097f4ed94038d4002b777 /src/modules/swarm/swarm.c
parent0a8088b3b34f9efed3f8905969a1d16bfd485a65 (diff)
til_stream: the first tap per-frame should drive the pipe
In the case of clones there's multiple identical contexts at the same path, putting their taps on the same pipe. Since these clones likely exist for the purpose of parallel rendering, chaotically scheduled, it's arbitrary which of the clones will render first in a given frame. So it would just be a matter of luck if the first to render was also the driving tap established at context create time. Until the driving context rendered, the non-driving contexts would render potentially stale values from their taps, carried from the last frame. Then the driving tap's context would render, advancing all taps it drove, and it plus any subsequent renders sharing the pipe in the frame would have the new tapped values, producing randomly inconsistent results. You can easily cause this today with checkers::fill_module=plato, since plato has some taps for the orbit/spin rates, and checkers uses context clones for parallel fill_module= rendering. Note this is orthogonal to cases like modules/rkt, where hooks are used to steal ownership of the pipes when they're created. rkt also becomes the driver of the taps from its ctor hook, since it bridges Rocket data to the taps, and this commit does potentially interfere with that by introducing a per-frame competition to determine driver. But since rkt is the top-level rendering module when its in use, calling into the per-scene module contexts when appropriate, it's guaranteed to always win the race as long as it maintains its taps using Rocket-provided values before rendering the scene - which is the way it works today.
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