Blender Git Commit Log

Task scheduler: Optimize parallel loop over lists

The goal is to address performance regression when going from
few threads to 10s of threads. On a systems with more than 32
CPU threads the benefit of threaded loop was actually harmful.

There are following tweaks now:

- The chunk size is adaptive for the number of threads, which
minimizes scheduling overhead.

- The number of tasks is adaptive to the list size and chunk
size.

Here comes performance comparison on the production shot:

Number of threads DEG time before DEG time after
44 0.09 0.02
32 0.055 0.025
16 0.025 0.025
8 0.035 0.033