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Revision 5d13082 by Sergey Sharybin (master) December 3, 2020, 13:51 (GMT) |
Tracking: Improve multithreading of tracking many markers This change solves a bottleneck which was caused by attempt to cache postprocessed search areas used for tracking. It was a single cache used by all threads, which required to have some synchronization mechanism. This synchronization turned out to be making all threads to idle while one thread is accessing the cache. The access was not cheap, so the multi-threading did not provide expected speedup. Current solution is to remove the cache of search areas. This avoids any threading synchronization overhead because there is no need for it anymore. The downside is that for certain configurations tracking became slower when comparing to master branch. There is no expected slowdown compared to 2.91 release. The slowdown is mainly experienced when using big search area and keyframe matching strategy. Other cases should still be within a ballpark of performance of single-threaded code prior to this change. The reason why is it so is because while this change makes it so the image accessors needs to process images multiple times the complexity of this process is almost the same as all the overhead for the cache lookup and maintenance. Here are Some numbers gained on different configurations. CPU: Intel Xeom CPU E5-2699 v4 OS: Linux Footage: Old_Factory MVI_4005.mov from the first part of Track Match Blend training which can be found on the Blender Cloud. Tracking 443 markers across 250 frames. The unit is seconds. File: F9433209 2.91: 401.520874 before: 358.650055 after: 14.966302 Tracking single marker across 250 frames. The unit is seconds. File: F9433211 2.91 before after Big keyframe 1.307203 1.005324 1.227300 Big previous frame 1.144055 0.881139 0.944044 Small keyframe 0.434015 0.197760 0.224982 Small previous frame 0.463207 0.218058 0.234172 All at once 2.338268 1.481220 1.518060 |
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Full Hash: 5d1308262218db60e22088bd7f16587cf28148e0
Parent Commit: a6c4e39
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