Commit: a9bb8d8a73cad2edd96297c868ae3a3ab4b04e27
Author: Sergey Sharybin
Date:   Sun Apr 5 22:13:10 2015 +0500
Branches: master
https://developer.blender.org/rBa9bb8d8a73cad2edd96297c868ae3a3ab4b04e27

Cycles: de-duplicate fast/approximate erf function calculation

Our own implementation is in fact the same performance as in fast_math from
OpenShadingLanguage, but implementation from fast_math is using explicit madd
function, which increases chance of compiler deciding to use intrinsics.

===================================================================

M       intern/cycles/kernel/closure/bsdf_microfacet.h
M       intern/cycles/util/util_math_fast.h

===================================================================

diff --git a/intern/cycles/kernel/closure/bsdf_microfacet.h 
b/intern/cycles/kernel/closure/bsdf_microfacet.h
index b225e67..32cf36a 100644
--- a/intern/cycles/kernel/closure/bsdf_microfacet.h
+++ b/intern/cycles/kernel/closure/bsdf_microfacet.h
@@ -35,75 +35,6 @@
 
 CCL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
 
-/* Approximate erf and erfinv implementations.
- * Implementation comes straight from Wikipedia:
- *
- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function
- *
- * Some constants are baked into the code.
- */
-
-ccl_device_inline float approx_erff_do(float x)
-{
-       /* Such a clamp doesn't give much distortion to the output value
-        * and gives quite a few of the speedup.
-        */
-       if(x > 3.0f) {
-               return 1.0f;
-       }
-       float t = 1.0f / (1.0f + 0.47047f*x);
-       return  (1.0f -
-                t*(0.3480242f + t*(-0.0958798f + t*0.7478556f)) * expf(-x*x));
-}
-
-ccl_device_inline float approx_erff(float x)
-{
-       if(x >= 0.0f) {
-               return approx_erff_do(x);
-       }
-       else {
-               return -approx_erff_do(-x);
-       }
-}
-
-ccl_device_inline float approx_erfinvf_do(float x)
-{
-       if(x <= 0.7f) {
-               const float x2 = x * x;
-               const float a1 =  0.886226899f;
-               const float a2 = -1.645349621f;
-               const float a3 =  0.914624893f;
-               const float a4 = -0.140543331f;
-               const float b1 = -2.118377725f;
-               const float b2 =  1.442710462f;
-               const float b3 = -0.329097515f;
-               const float b4 =  0.012229801f;
-               return x * (((a4 * x2 + a3) * x2 + a2) * x2 + a1) /
-                         ((((b4 * x2 + b3) * x2 + b2) * x2 + b1) * x2 + 1.0f);
-       }
-       else {
-               const float c1 = -1.970840454f;
-               const float c2 = -1.624906493f;
-               const float c3 =  3.429567803f;
-               const float c4 =  1.641345311f;
-               const float d1 =  3.543889200f;
-               const float d2 =  1.637067800f;
-               const float z = sqrtf(-logf((1.0f - x) * 0.5f));
-               return (((c4 * z + c3) * z + c2) * z + c1) /
-                       ((d2 * z + d1) * z + 1.0f);
-       }
-}
-
-ccl_device_inline float approx_erfinvf(float x)
-{
-       if(x >= 0.0f) {
-               return approx_erfinvf_do(x);
-       }
-       else {
-               return -approx_erfinvf_do(-x);
-       }
-}
-
 /* Beckmann and GGX microfacet importance sampling. */
 
 ccl_device_inline void microfacet_beckmann_sample_slopes(
@@ -126,7 +57,7 @@ ccl_device_inline void microfacet_beckmann_sample_slopes(
        const float tan_theta_i = sin_theta_i/cos_theta_i;
        const float inv_a = tan_theta_i;
        const float cot_theta_i = 1.0f/tan_theta_i;
-       const float erf_a = approx_erff(cot_theta_i);
+       const float erf_a = fast_erff(cot_theta_i);
        const float exp_a2 = expf(-cot_theta_i*cot_theta_i);
        const float SQRT_PI_INV = 0.56418958354f;
        const float Lambda = 0.5f*(erf_a - 1.0f) + 
(0.5f*SQRT_PI_INV)*(exp_a2*inv_a);
@@ -156,31 +87,31 @@ ccl_device_inline void microfacet_beckmann_sample_slopes(
        float b = K > 0 ? (0.5f - sqrtf(K * (K - y_approx + 1.0f) + 0.25f)) / K 
: y_approx - 1.0f;
 
        /* Perform newton step to refine toward the true root. */
-       float inv_erf = approx_erfinvf(b);
+       float inv_erf = fast_ierff(b);
        float value  = 1.0f + b + K * expf(-inv_erf * inv_erf) - y_exact;
        /* Check if we are close enough already,
         * this also avoids NaNs as we get close to the root.
         */
        if(fabsf(value) > 1e-6f) {
                b -= value / (1.0f - inv_erf * tan_theta_i); /* newton step 1. 
*/
-               inv_erf = approx_erfinvf(b);
+               inv_erf = fast_ierff(b);
                value  = 1.0f + b + K * expf(-inv_erf * inv_erf) - y_exact;
                b -= value / (1.0f - inv_erf * tan_theta_i); /* newton step 2. 
*/
                /* Compute the slope from the refined value. */
-               *slope_x = approx_erfinvf(b);
+               *slope_x = fast_ierff(b);
        }
        else {
                /* We are close enough already. */
                *slope_x = inv_erf;
        }
-       *slope_y = approx_erfinvf(2.0f*randv - 1.0f);
+       *slope_y = fast_ierff(2.0f*randv - 1.0f);
 #else
        /* Use precomputed table on CPU, it gives better perfomance. */
        int beckmann_table_offset = kernel_data.tables.beckmann_offset;
 
        *slope_x = lookup_table_read_2D(kg, randu, cos_theta_i,
                beckmann_table_offset, BECKMANN_TABLE_SIZE, 
BECKMANN_TABLE_SIZE);
-       *slope_y = approx_erfinvf(2.0f*randv - 1.0f);
+       *slope_y = fast_ierff(2.0f*randv - 1.0f);
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/intern/cycles/util/util_math_fast.h 
b/intern/cycles/util/util_math_fast.h
index 4ad81e9..1acceee 100644
--- a/intern/cycles/util/util_math_fast.h
+++ b/intern/cycles/util/util_math_fast.h
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ ccl_device float fast_safe_powf(float x, float y)
  * bsdf_microfaset.h.
  */
 
-ccl_device float fast_erff(float x)
+ccl_device_inline float fast_erff(float x)
 {
        /* Examined 1082130433 values of erff on [0,4]: 1.93715e-06 max error. 
*/
        /* Abramowitz and Stegun, 7.1.28. */
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ ccl_device_inline float fast_erfcf(float x)
        return 1.0f - fast_erff(x);
 }
 
-ccl_device float fast_ierff(float x)
+ccl_device_inline float fast_ierff(float x)
 {
        /* From: Approximating the erfinv function by Mike Giles. */
        /* To avoid trouble at the limit, clamp input to 1-eps. */

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