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2023-09-04til: support multi-pass renderingVito Caputo
Modules can now use the til_module_t.finish_frame() return value to trigger re-rendering by returning 1, returning 0 finishes the frame. A smattering of til_module_t.finish_frame() implementations were largely mechanically updated to match this change by returning 0, since nothing actually uses multi-pass rendering yet. The impetus for this is experimenting with the flow module doing two passes of threaded rendering per frame. A first pass to sample the flow field and update the elements, per-cpu, but drawing nothing. Then a second pass to render the elements in a tiled manner.
2023-09-03modules/voronoi: spot-fix a crash Phil reportedVito Caputo
The repro is: --seed=0x64f6820b '--module=compose,layers=blank\,pixbounce\\\,pixmap_size\\\=0.8\\\,pixmap\\\=err\,pixbounce\\\,pixmap_size\\\=0.4\\\,pixmap\\\=ignignokt,texture=voronoi\,cells\=512\,randomize\=on' '--video=mem,size=3840x2160' The major culprit seems to be the combination of high resolution, and small number of voronoi cells (cells=512), with randomize=on which exercises jumpfill every frame. The way jumpfill is implemented currently is racy by design to allow threading, and mostly works fine despite not really being how the algorithm is intended to work. The assumption has been, something like: "the seeds are already placed before the threaded phase, so the threaded jumpfill should at least find stable seed cells in the face of racing against other tiles being jumpfilled simultaneously" But it appears that assumption isn't always true, in that we won't necessarily find one of the seed cells at the start of the jumpfill when there aren't that many cells (512) compared to the area of the voronoi (3840x2160). By noticing when we've finished a tile's jumpfill with remaining unassigned cells, we can just repeat the jumpfill, with time passed, and the other tiles will have made progress on their work propagating more knowledge of where cells are... so the subsequent pass will probably leave nothing unassigned. This approach sucks, but stops the crashing. It'd also be possible to just change the way cells are looked up so there's no potential for a NULL pointer dereference, just have some uninitialized cell color which gets shown erroneously in the output. That avoids the computational cost of repeating the tile's jumpfill, and likely nobody would notice the likely single pixel of error for a single frame. I'm just doing this quick and dirty fix to prevent the crashing for now, and would like to just revisit voronoi more thoroughly with an eye towards decoupling the voronoi cost from the resolution. It's a cheap hack the way there's a distance entry per pixel, done just to simplify the implementation when I slapped it together on a Zephyr train ride.
2023-08-30modules/voronoi: handle baking errors in voronoi_setup()Vito Caputo
More setup_func conversion to returning the failed setting on errors during res_setup baking.
2023-08-05til_setup,*: add til_setup_t.creator pointerVito Caputo
Particularly with nested modules it's annoying to have to stow the module separate from the setup during the setup process. If the baked setup included the module pointer in the non-module-specific-setup part of the setup, then nested settings could finalize using the generic module setup wrapper and just rely on this til_setup_t.creator pointer to contain the appropriate module. Which should enable tossing out a bunch of copy-n-pasta surrounding nested modules setup. Note this has to be a void* since til_setup_t is a generic thing used equally by both the fb code and the module code. Hence why this is called "creator" and not "module", as well as the void* as opposed to til_module_t*. Also if rototiller ever grows a sound backend, the setup machinery will be reused there as well, and it'll be yet another creator handle that isn't an til_fb_ops_t or a til_module_t. It's assumed that the callers producing these setups won't be trying to pass them to the wrong places i.e. a module setup getting passed to an fb backend and vice versa. I'm mildly annoyed about having to move the various til_module_t blocks to above the module's foo_setup(), but it seemed like the least annoying option. This may be revisited.
2023-06-13*: smattering of random small fixes to silence -WallVito Caputo
I thought the build was already using -Wall but that seems to not be the case, maybe got lost somewhere along the line or messed up in configure.ac After forcing a build with -Wall -Werror, these showed up. Fixed up in the obvious way, nothing too scary.
2023-05-30til,*: pivot to til_setup_t for context pathsVito Caputo
This changes til_setup_t* from optional to required for til_module_context_t creation, while dropping the separate path parameter construction and passing throughout.
2023-05-28til_setup,*: note settings path in til_setup_tVito Caputo
This commit adds passing the settings instance to til_setup_new() which is used for deriving a path for the setup via til_settings_print_path() on the supplied settings. That path gets an allocated copy left in the returned til_setup_t at til_setup_t.path This path will exist for the lifetime of the til_setup_t, to be freed along with the rest of the baked setup instance when the refcount reaches 0. The incoming til_settings_t is only read @ til_setup_new() in constructing the path, no reference is kept. Basically the til_settings_t* is just passed in for convenience reasons, since constructing the path needs memory and may fail, this approach lets the existing til_setup_new() call error handling also capture the path allocation failures as-is turning til_setup_new() into a bit more of a convenience helper. Note that now all code may assume a til_setup_t has a set and valid til_setup_t.path, which should be useful for context creates when a setup is available.
2023-05-28*: use NULL for free() in til_setup_new()Vito Caputo
Commit 7c8086020 switched the til_setup_new() api to support NULL free_func for free(). This mechanical change pivots to that instead of the awkwardly cast free() parameters.
2023-05-28modules/voronoi: make cell color randomization conditionalVito Caputo
When voronoi is overlayed the colors get sampled, so randomizing them is pointless work every frame.
2023-05-27modules/voronoi: threaded calculate_distances()Vito Caputo
This seems to work on my 2c/4t laptop and is certainly faster. But I'm not being careful about using atomics loading/storing the d->cell pointer, which seems problematic. Surprisingly things aren't crashing here despite that, maybe on a non-x86 smp box it'd be a different story.
2023-05-27modules/voronoi: split voronoi_calculate_distances()Vito Caputo
Preparatory commit for doing the voronoi distance calculations in parallel when possible, as part of render_fragment() instead of all in prepare_frame(). Not all of the distance calculation work can easily be threaded, but it should be possible to compute the post-seed distances concurrently within the spatial bounds of the tiled fragment. This commit doesn't actually change anything functionally, as it's just splitting the old voronoi_calculate_distances() into two and calling them both in succession still from voronoi_prepare_frame(). Subsequent commits will work towards making the render_pass() fragment-aware then ultimately moved to voronoi_render_fragment()
2023-05-27modules/voronoi: remove dirty= setting and variantVito Caputo
This variant is kind of a broken hack, and its brokenness becomes more apparent in a threaded voronoi world. So just drop it for now. I am interested in more voronoi variants, but they can't compromise correctness/introduce instabilities or significantly interfere with performance improvements like threaded rendering. The dithered-ish look of dirty=on was an interesting variant though... bummer.
2023-05-27modules/voronoi: constify til_fb_fragment_tVito Caputo
trivial change; voronoi_sample_colors() only reads from the fragment
2023-05-11modules/*: stop storing setup by value in contextsVito Caputo
With setup refcounting and a reference bound to the context, we should just dereference the single instance. The way setups are used it just as a read-only thing to affect context behavior... Note I've left the module-type-specific setup pointer despite it duplicating the setup pointer in the module_context. This is just a convenience thing so the accessors don't have to cast the general til_setup_t* to my_module_setup_t* everywhere.
2023-05-11til_module_context: reference setup from module contextVito Caputo
This just does the obvious pulling in of til_setup_t, holding the reference throughout the lifetime of the module context.
2023-05-11modules/*: remove use of static default setupsVito Caputo
There was a time when it made sense for context creates needing setups but not receiving them to still be functional with some sane defaults. But with recursive settings, we really shouldn't ever have orphaned nested module uses unreachable by a proper setup. So let's just get rid of this fallback, and exclusively rely on the baked setups provided by the .setup() methods. They still have preferred defaults, and the proper setup production machinery is what should be responsible for applying those at runtime where they may also be overridden or otherwise influenced.
2023-05-11til_settings: introduce til_setting_spec_t concept vs. descVito Caputo
For recursive settings the individual setting being described needs to get added to a potentially different settings instance than the one being operated on at the top of the current setup_func phase. The settings instance being passed around for a setup_func to operate on is constified, mainly to try ensure modules don't start directly mucking with the settings. They're supposed to just describe what they want next and iterate back and forth, with the front-end creating the settings from the returned descs however is appropriate, eventually building up the settings to completion. But since it's the setup_func that decides which settings instance is appropriate for containing the setting.. at some point it must associate a settings instance with the desc it's producing, one that is going to be necessarily written to. So here I'm just turning the existing til_setting_desc_t to a "spec", unchanged. And introducing a new til_setting_desc_t embedding the spec, accompanied by a non-const til_settings_t* "container". Now what setup_funcs use to express settings are a spec, otherwise identically to before. Instead of cloning a desc to allocate it for returning to the front-end, the desc is created from a spec with the target settings instance passed in. This turns the desc step where we take a constified settings instance and cast it into a non-const a more formal act of going from spec->desc, binding the spec to a specific settings instance. It will also serve to isolate that hacky cast to a til_settings function, and all the accessors of til_setting_desc_t needing to operate on the containing settings instance can just do so. As of this commit, the container pointer is just sitting in the desc_t but isn't being made use of or even assigned yet. This is just to minimize the amount of churn happening in this otherwise mostly mechanical and sprawling commit. There's also been some small changes surrounding the desc generators and plumbing of the settings instance where there previously wasn't any. It's unclear to me if desc generators will stay desc generators or turn into spec generators. For now those are mostly just used by the drm_fb stuff anyways, modules haven't made use of them, so they can stay a little crufty harmlessly for now.
2023-01-20til: pass module to .context_create()/til_module_context_new()Vito Caputo
Let's make it so til_module_context_t as returned from til_module_context_new() can immediately be freed via til_module_context_free(). Previously it was only after the context propagated out to til_module_context_create() that it could be freed that way, as that was where the module member was being assigned. With this change, and wiring up the module pointer into til_module_t.create_context() as well for convenient providing to til_module_context_new(), til_module_t.create_context() error paths can easily cleanup via `return til_module_context_free()` But this does require the til_module_t.destroy_context() be able to safely handle partially constructed contexts, since the mid-create failure freeing won't necessarily have all the members initialized. There will probably be some NULL derefs to fix up, but at least the contexts are zero-initialized @ new.
2023-01-11* turn til_fb_fragment_t.stream into a discrete parameterVito Caputo
This was mostly done out of convenience at the expense of turning the fragment struct into more of a junk drawer. But properly cleaning up owned stream pipes on context destroy makes the inappropriateness of being part of til_fb_fragment_t glaringly apparent. Now the stream is just a separate thing passed to context create, with a reference kept in the context for use throughout. Cleanup of the owned pipes on the stream supplied to context create is automagic when the context gets destroyed. Note that despite there being a stream in the module context, the stream to use is still supplied to all the rendering family functions (prepare/render/finish) and it's the passed-in stream which should be used by these functions. This is done to support the possibility of switching out the stream frame-to-frame, which may be interesting. Imagine doing things like a latent stream and a future stream and switching between them on the fly for instance. If there's a sequencing composite module, it could flip between multiple sets of tracks or jump around multiple streams with the visuals immediately flipping accordingly. This should fix the --print-pipes crashing issues caused by lack of cleanup when contexts were removed (like rtv does so often).
2023-01-10*: introduce paths for module contextsVito Caputo
There needs to be a way to address module context instances by name externally, in a manner complementary to settings and taps. This commit adds a string-based path to til_module_context_t, and modifies til_module_create_context() to accept a parent path which is then concatenated with the name of the module to produce the module instance's new path. The name separator used in the paths is '/' just like filesystem paths, but these paths have no relationship to filesystems or files. The root module context creation in rototiller's main simply passes "" as the parent path, resulting in a "/" root as one would expect. There are some obvious complications introduced here however: - checkers in particular creates a context per cpu, simply using the same seed and setup to try make the contexts identical at the same ticks value. With this commit I'm simply passing the incoming path as the parent for creating those contexts, but it's unclear to me if that will work OK. With an eye towards taps deriving their parent path from the context path, I guess these taps would all get the same parent and hash to the same value despite being duplicated. Maybe it Just Works, but one thing is clear - there won't be any way to address the per-cpu taps as-is. Maybe that's desirable though, there's probably not much use in trying to control the taps at the CPU granularity. - when the recursive settings stuff lands, it should bring along the ability to explicitly name settings blocks. Those names should override the module name in constructing the path. I've noted as such in the code. - these paths probably need to be hashed @ initialization time so there needs to be a hash function added to til, and a hash value accompanying the name in the module context. It'd be dumb to keep recomputing the hash when these paths get used for hash table lookups multiple times per frame... there's probably more I'm forgetting right now, but this seems like a good first step. fixup root path
2022-08-07til: til_fb_fragment_t **fragment_ptr all the thingsVito Caputo
Preparatory commit for enabling cloneable/swappable fragments There's an outstanding issue with the til_fb_page_t submission, see comments. Doesn't matter for now since cloning doesn't happen yet, but will need to be addressed before they do.
2022-06-10til: introduce til_frame_plan_t and .cpu_affinityVito Caputo
modules/checkers w/fill_module=$module requires a consistent mapping of cpu to fragnum since it creates a per-cpu til_module_context_t for the fill_module. The existing implementation for threaded rendering maximizes performance by letting *any* scheduled to run thread advance fragnum atomically and render the acquired fragnum indiscriminately. A side effect of this is any given frame, even rendered by the same module, will have a random mapping of cpus/threads to fragnums. With this change, the simple til_module_t.prepare_frame() API of returning a bare fragmenter function is changed to instead return a "frame plan" in til_frame_plan_t. Right now til_frame_plan_t just contains the same fragmenter as before, but also has a .cpu_affinity member for setting if the frame requires a stable relationship of cpu/thread to fragnum. Setting .cpu_affinity should be avoided if unnecessary, and that is the default if you don't mention .cpu_affinity at all when initializing the plan in the ergonomic manner w/designated initializers. This is because the way .cpu_affinity is implemented will leave threads spinning while they poll for *their* next fragnum using atomic intrinsics. There's probably some room for improvement here, but this is good enough for now to get things working and correct.
2022-06-10til: add ticks to til_module_context_tVito Caputo
Also wire this up to the til_module_context_new() helper and all its callers. This is in preparation for modules doing more correct delta-T derived animation.
2022-05-29*: pivot to til_module_context_tVito Caputo
- modules now allocate their contexts using til_module_context_new() instead of [cm]alloc(). - modules simply embed til_module_context_t at the start of their respective private context structs, if they do anything with contexts - modules that do nothing with contexts (lack a create_context() method), will now *always* get a til_module_context_t supplied to their other methods regardless of their create_context() presence. So even if you don't have a create_context(), your prepare_frame() and/or render_fragment() methods can still access seed and n_cpus from within the til_module_context_t passed in as context, *always*. - modules that *do* have a create_context() method, implying they have their own private context type, will have to cast the til_module_context_t supplied to the other methods to their private context type. By embedding the til_module_context_t at the *start* of their private context struct, a simple cast is all that's needed. If it's placed somewhere else, more annoying container_of() style macros are needed - this is strongly discouraged, just put it at the start of struct. - til_module_create_context() now takes n_cpus, which may be set to 0 for automatically assigning the number of threads in its place. Any non-zero value is treated as an explicit n_cpus, primarily intended for setting it to 1 for single-threaded contexts necessary when embedded within an already-threaded composite module. - modules like montage which open-coded a single-threaded render are now using the same til_module_render_fragment() as everything else, since til_module_create_context() is accepting n_cpus. - til_module_create_context() now produces a real type, not void *, that is til_module_context_t *. All the other module context functions now operate on this type, and since til_module_context_t.module tracks the module this context relates to, those functions no longer require both the module and context be passed in. This is especially helpful for compositing modules which do a lot of module context creation and destruction; the module handle is now only needed to create the contexts. Everything else operating on that context only needs the single context pointer, not module+context pairs, which was unnecessarily annoying. - if your module's context can be destroyed with a simple free(), without any deeper knowledge or freeing of nested pointers, you can now simply omit destroy_context() altogether. When destroy_context() is missing, til_module_context_free() will automatically use libc's free() on the pointer returned from your create_context() (or on the pointer that was automatically created if you omitted create_context() too, for the bare til_module_context_t that got created on your behalf anyways). For the most part, these changes don't affect module creation. In some ways this eases module creation by making it more convenient access seed and n_cpus if you had no further requirement for a context struct. In other ways it's slightly annoying to have to do type-casts when you're working with your own context type, since before it was all void* and didn't require casts when assigning to your typed context variables. The elimination for requiring a destroy_context() method in simple free() of private context scenarios removes some boilerplate in simple cases. I think it's a wash for module writers, or maybe a slight win for the simple cases.
2022-05-21modules/*: first stab at utilizing supplied seedsVito Caputo
This is a mostly mechanical change of using rand_r() in place of rand(), using the provided seed as the seed state. There's some outstanding rand()s outside of create_context() which should probably get switched over, with the seed being stowed in the context struct. I didn't bother going deeper on this at the moment in the interests of getting to sleep soon.
2022-05-21modules/voronoi: silence warning about fmt mismatchVito Caputo
n_cells is a size_t, use %zu clang complained, gcc doesn't, huh
2022-05-21til: supply a seed to til_module_t.create_context()Vito Caputo
In the recent surge of ADD-style rtv+compose focused development, a bunch of modules were changed to randomize initial states at context_create() so they wouldn't be so repetitive. But the way this was done in a way that made it impossible to suppress the randomized initial state, which sometimes may be desirable in compositions. Imagine for instance something like the checkers module, rendering one module in the odd cells, and another module into the even cells. Imagine if these modules are actually the same, but if checkers used one seed for all the odd cells and another seed for all the even cells. If the modules used actually utilized the seed provided, checkers would be able to differentiate the odd from even by seeding them differently even when the modules are the same. This commit is a step in that direction, but rototiller and all the composite modules (rtv,compose,montage) are simply passing rand() as the seeds. Also none of the modules have yet been modified to actually make use of these seeds. Subsequent commits will update modules to seed their pseudo-randomized initial state from the seed value rather than always calling things like rand() themselves.
2022-05-03modules/voronoi: slightly underscale to prevent OOB accessVito Caputo
We don't actually want to produce indices 0-width and 0-height
2022-05-01modules/*: make use of generic fragmentersVito Caputo
Just one case, modules/submit, was using 32x32 tiles and is now using 64x64. I don't expect it to make any difference. While here I fixed up the num_cpus/n_cpus naming inconsistencies, normalizing on n_cpus.
2022-05-01til: wire n_cpus up to the fragmenter functionVito Caputo
Fragmenting is often dimensioned according to the number of cpus, and by not supplying this to the fragmenter it was made rather common for module contexts to plumb this themselves - in some cases incorporating a context type/create/destroy rigamarole for the n_cpus circuit alone. So just plumb it in libtil, and the prepare_frame functions can choose to ignore it if they have something more desirable onhand. Future commits will remove a bunch of n_cpus from module contexts in favor of this.
2022-04-29modules/voronoi: voronoi diagram moduleVito Caputo
This adds a voronoi diagram module, which when used as an overlay produces a mosaic effect. Some settings: cells=N number of voronoi cells randomize={on,off} randomizes the cell locations every frame dirty={on,off} uses a faster sloppy/dithery-looking method Some TODO items: - use a more space efficient representation of the distance buffer, maybe use uint16_t relative offsets into the cells rather than pointers - capping their quantity to 64KiB - anti-alias edges between cells
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