This patch followed allow_exhaustive_searches feature modification and
continued to modify the encoder to achieve the determinism in the row
based multi-threaded encoding. While row-mt = 1 and using multiple
threads, the adaptive feature in encoder was disabled, which gave
BDRate gain(at speed 1, -0.6% ~ -0.7%; at speed 2, -0.46% ~ -0.59%),
but some encoder speed losses(7% ~ 10% at speed 1 and 3% ~ 6% at
speed 2). These speed losses were acceptable considering the speed
gains obtained from row-mt.
Change-Id: I60d87a25346ebc487a864b57d559f560b7e398bb
A previous patch turned on allow_exhaustive_searches feature only for
FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content. This patch further modified the feature
by removing the exhaustive search limit, and made it no longer adaptive.
As a result, the 2 counts that recorded the number of motion searches
were removed, which helped achieve the determinism in the row based
multi-threading encoding. Tests showed that this patch didn't cause
the encoder much slower.
Used exhaustive_searches_thresh for this speed feature, and removed
allow_exhaustive_searches. Also, refactored the speed feature code
to follow the general speed feature setting style.
Change-Id: Ib96b182c4c8dfff4c1ab91d2497cc42bb9e5a4aa
Change it to row based array to avoid the slow down cause by sync.
row-mt on, speed 8, 2 threads: ~4% speedup for VGA on ARM benefited
from adaptive_rd_threshold.
Change-Id: I887e65a53af20a6c4f48d293daaee09dab3512cf
(Yunqing Wang)
This patch implements the row-based multi-threading within tiles in
the encoding pass, and substantially speeds up the multi-threaded
encoder in VP9.
Speed tests at speed 1 on STDHD(using 4 tiles) set show that the
average speedups of the encoding pass(second pass in the 2-pass
encoding) is 7% while using 2 threads, 16% while using 4 threads,
85% while using 8 threads, and 116% while using 16 threads.
Change-Id: I12e41dbc171951958af9e6d098efd6e2c82827de
(yunqingwang)
1. Rebased the patch. Incorporated recent first pass changes.
2. Turned on the first pass unit test.
Change-Id: Ia2f7ba8152d0b6dd6bf8efb9dfaf505ba7d8edee
