Current index builder is designed to be used in a single thread.
This makes all index buffer extractions single threaded.
This patch adds a thread safe solution enabling multithreaded
building of index buffers.
To reduce locking the solution would provide a task/thread local
index buffer builder (called sub builder).
When a thread is finished this thread local index buffer builder
can be joined with the initial index buffer builder.
GPU module impact
GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_init: Initialized a sub builder. The
index list is shared between the parent and sub buffer, but the
counters are localized. Ensuring that updating counters would
not need any locking.
GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_finish: merge the information of the
sub builder back to the parent builder. Needs to be invoked outside
the worker thread, or when sure that all worker threads have been
finished. Internal the function is not thread safe.
Mesh points extraction
For testing purposes the extract_points extractor has been migrated to
the new API. Herefore changes to the mesh extractor were needed.
- When creating tasks, the task number of current task is stored in ExtractTaskData including the total number of tasks.
- Adding two functions in MeshExtract.
- task_init will initialize the task specific userdata.
- task_finish should merge back the task specific userdata back.
- adding task_id parameter to the iteration functions so they can access the correct task data without any need for locking.
Before the points are extracted single threaded.
After the change the points aren't part of the single threaded extraction.
There is no noticeable change in end user performance.
