Added updated task launch implementation that now tracks task groups.

Within each function that launches tasks, we now can easily track which
tasks that function launched, so that the sync at the end of the function
can just sync on the tasks launched by that function (not all tasks
launched by all functions.)

Implementing this led to a rework of the task system API that ispc generates
code to call; the example task systems in examples/tasksys.cpp have been
updated to conform to this API.  (The updated API is also documented in
the ispc user's guide.)

As part of this, "launch[n]" syntax was added to launch a number of tasks
in a single launch statement, rather than requiring a loop over 'n' to
launch n tasks.

This commit thus fixes issue #84 (enhancement to launch multiple tasks from
a single launch statement) as well as issue #105 (recursive task launches
were broken).

examples/volume_rendering/Makefile

@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 
 ARCH = $(shell uname)
 
-TASK_CXX=../tasks_pthreads.cpp
+TASK_CXX=../tasksys.cpp
 TASK_LIB=-lpthread
-
-ifeq ($(ARCH), Darwin)
-  TASK_CXX=../tasks_gcd.cpp
-  TASK_LIB=
-endif
-
 TASK_OBJ=$(addprefix objs/, $(subst ../,, $(TASK_CXX:.cpp=.o)))
 
 CXX=g++

examples/volume_rendering/volume.ispc

@@ -343,11 +343,20 @@ volume_tile(uniform int x0, uniform int y0, uniform int x1,
 
 
 task void
-volume_task(uniform int x0, uniform int y0, uniform int x1,
-            uniform int y1, uniform float density[], uniform int nVoxels[3], 
+volume_task(uniform float density[], uniform int nVoxels[3], 
             const uniform float raster2camera[4][4],
             const uniform float camera2world[4][4], 
             uniform int width, uniform int height, uniform float image[]) {
+    uniform int dx = 8, dy = 8; // must match value in volume_ispc_tasks
+    uniform int xbuckets = (width + (dx-1)) / dx;
+    uniform int ybuckets = (height + (dy-1)) / dy;
+
+    uniform int x0 = (taskIndex % xbuckets) * dx;
+    uniform int y0 = (taskIndex / ybuckets) * dy;
+    uniform int x1 = x0 + dx, y1 = y0 + dy;
+    x1 = min(x1, width);
+    y1 = min(y1, height);
+
     volume_tile(x0, y0, x1, y1, density, nVoxels, raster2camera,
                  camera2world, width, height, image);
 }
@@ -370,9 +379,7 @@ volume_ispc_tasks(uniform float density[], uniform int nVoxels[3],
                   uniform int width, uniform int height, uniform float image[]) {
     // Launch tasks to work on (dx,dy)-sized tiles of the image
     uniform int dx = 8, dy = 8;
-    for (uniform int y = 0; y < height; y += dy)
-        for (uniform int x = 0; x < width; x += dx)
-            launch < volume_task(x, y, x+dx, y+dy, density, nVoxels, 
-                                 raster2camera, camera2world, width, height, 
-                                 image) >;
+    uniform int nTasks = ((width+(dx-1))/dx) * ((height+(dy-1))/dy);
+    launch[nTasks] < volume_task(density, nVoxels, raster2camera, camera2world, 
+                                 width, height, image) >;
 }

examples/volume_rendering/volume.vcxproj

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <ClCompile Include="volume.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="volume_serial.cpp" />
-    <ClCompile Include="../tasks_concrt.cpp" />
+    <ClCompile Include="../tasksys.cpp" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <CustomBuild Include="volume.ispc">