Improve hydroelastic contact performance - #4142
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The mesh-SDF narrow phase funnels every edge that survives the Brent search through the global reducer's pre-prune probe, and in engaged assemblies such as the nut/bolt scene about 97% of those candidates are rejected there. The probe used to walk the seven reduction slots in a loop that exited on the first winning slot, and then looked up the voxel entry only if no slot won, so each rejected candidate paid up to ten dependent global memory round trips. Resolve the voxel entry alongside the normal-bin entry (inner contacts always need it, either to probe or to claim it) and read all slots before comparing, so the loads issue back to back. The decision is the same logical OR as before and the exported contacts are bit-identical; the nut/bolt SDF scene at 2000 worlds drops from about 7.9 ms to 7.4 ms per collide step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hydroelastic pipeline runs an exclusive prefix scan after the SDF broadphase and after each of the four octree refinement levels. Those scans used cub over the whole worst-case buffer, so their cost scaled with the allocated capacity rather than with the records that survived pruning. At 1000 nut/bolt worlds the seven scan launches took 1.8 ms of a 4.0 ms collide step, more than the marching-cubes kernel itself. Add a device-count-aware scan to scan_with_total: one launch sums fixed-size chunks of the active range, a single block scans the chunk sums and emits the total, and a final launch writes the per-element exclusive prefixes. Callers pass a preallocated scratch buffer so the path stays CUDA-graph safe; without scratch the previous cub path is used. The hydroelastic pipeline allocates scratch per level. Contacts are identical; the hydroelastic nut/bolt scene drops from 0.545 ms to 0.383 ms per step at 100 worlds and from 4.01 ms to 2.25 ms at 1000 worlds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The marching-cubes corner loop sampled the voxel's own SDF once per corner, and each sample resolved the subgrid indirection slot on its own before fetching a single texel. A fine voxel always lies inside one subgrid block that stores subgrid_size + 1 samples per axis, so the eight corners can be gathered with one slot lookup and four paired texel reads. Add _texture_read_voxel_corners_variant, which returns the corners in marching-cubes order and falls back to interpolating the enclosing coarse cell when the block has no fine data, and use it in mc_iterate_voxel_vertices. Corners on a face shared with a coarse-only neighbor now come from this block's fine border sample rather than the neighbor's coarse interpolation, which is at least as accurate. Nut/bolt hydroelastic contacts are bit-identical; the scene runs in 0.365 ms instead of 0.383 ms at 100 worlds and in 2.06 ms instead of 2.25 ms at 1000 worlds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The software trilinear sampler chose between the coarse and the fine texture in an if/else that also computed the texel coordinates, and the marching-cubes corner loop returned as soon as one corner was NaN. Both split the eight corner samples of the other shape's SDF into separate basic blocks, so each corner waited for its own slot lookup and texel fetches before the next one could start. Compute both coordinate sets and select them with predicated assignments, and record NaN corners in a flag that is checked after the loop. The arithmetic per path is unchanged, so contacts stay bit-identical; the generate kernel drops from 1044 us to 741 us at 1000 nut/bolt worlds, and the collide step from 2.06 ms to 1.95 ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mesh-SDF edge kernels alternate a cooperative culling pass, which synchronizes the whole block several times per pass, with a divergent per-edge search phase. With 256-thread blocks every barrier waits for eight warps, and the register cap of 128 per thread only allows two resident blocks per SM. Launch the kernels with 128-thread blocks and a launch bound of four blocks per SM instead. Occupancy and the register budget are unchanged, but each barrier now waits on four warps and the SM always has other blocks to schedule while one block synchronizes. A sweep over 64/128/256 threads, register caps, and block-count multipliers found this the best point; a tighter register cap (five blocks per SM) regressed sharply from spilling. Contacts are bit-identical. The nut/bolt SDF scene improves from 7.41 ms to 6.82 ms per collide step at 2000 worlds, with smaller gains at 20 and 200 worlds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GlobalContactReducer.clear_active launched at most 1024 threads and let them grid-stride over the active hashtable entries. Each entry needs a key store, seven slot-major value stores and, for hydroelastic reducers, the aggregate resets, all to hash-scattered addresses, so with 54k active entries the 8 resident warps spent about 80 us waiting on store latency. Launch up to 65536 threads instead; the kernel already strides over the device-side active count, and surplus threads exit immediately. The nut/bolt SDF scene at 2000 worlds drops from 6.82 ms to 6.73 ms per step (1.07 ms to 1.04 ms at 200 worlds), and the hydroelastic scene at 1000 worlds from 1.95 ms to 1.92 ms. Contacts are bit-identical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request optimizes hydroelastic and mesh-SDF contact generation. It adds scratch-backed scans, batched voxel sampling, revised reduction handling, updated CUDA launch sizing, validation tests, and collision-only benchmarks. ChangesContact Generation Optimizations
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In `@changelog/`+hydro-count-aware-scan-3c9f7a21.changed.md:
- Line 1: Add reproducible benchmark context to the changelog fragment for the
nut/bolt hydroelastic workload, including the benchmark command, backend,
device, and relevant configuration for both 100- and 1000-world runs; otherwise
remove the exact 30% and 44% improvement percentages while retaining the
qualitative optimization summary.
In `@changelog/`+reducer-clear-threads-6f0c2d95.changed.md:
- Line 1: Update the changelog’s numeric performance claims for the reducer and
block-size fragments to include the workload, exact world count, GPU/backend,
baseline, and measurement method; remove those numeric results instead if the
required context is unavailable. Leave the export-probes fragment unchanged.
In `@newton/_src/geometry/contact_reduction_global.py`:
- Around line 1587-1590: Update the use_inner voxel-key insertion flow around
hashtable_find_or_insert and export_contact_to_buffer so a failed contact-ID
allocation rolls back the newly inserted voxel key and its ht_active_slots
entry, preventing stale capacity usage. Preserve existing-key behavior and
concurrent replacement handling, and add a focused exhaustion test covering
ht_active_slots, ht_insert_failures, and emitted contacts.
In `@newton/_src/geometry/sdf_hydroelastic.py`:
- Line 1067: Update the broadphase scan call near broad_scan_scratch to pass
shape_pairs_sdf_sdf_count as the active shape-pair count, rather than scanning
the full max_num_shape_pairs capacity. Keep the count consistent with the
scatter kernel’s pair_count while preserving the existing scratch-buffer
behavior.
In `@newton/_src/geometry/sdf_texture.py`:
- Line 1281: Update _texture_read_voxel_corners_variant and its use in
mc_iterate_voxel_vertices so shared vertices apply a consistent coarse/fine
boundary rule, preferably selecting resolution per vertex rather than using one
slot for all eight corners. Add a focused regression test covering a coarse/fine
neighboring voxel boundary and verify generated shared edge vertices remain
coincident.
In `@newton/_src/geometry/utils.py`:
- Around line 1109-1115: Add focused unit tests for scan_with_total covering
empty, clamped, partial, and multi-chunk inputs; compare scratch-buffer and
fallback array-scan results, and verify representative CPU/CUDA contact
equivalence used by sdf_hydroelastic.py. Give each test a triple-double-quoted
docstring and anchor the coverage to scan_with_total and the relevant contact
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In `@newton/_src/geometry/contact_reduction_global.py`:
- Line 1103: Add boundary-focused unittest coverage for _clear_active_kernel via
GlobalContactReducer.clear_active(), covering counts 1023, 1024, 1025, and above
65,536 on every device from get_test_devices(). Assert that keys, slot-major
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- Line 1017: Rename scan_scratch_size to _scan_scratch_size to make the helper
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The switch to 128-thread mesh-SDF blocks kept the launch at twice the resident block count, i.e. two waves. When a pair's edges are split over several blocks the per-chunk work is very uneven (engaged versus free thread regions), and with only two waves the busy chunks dominate the tail: the nut/bolt scene at 100 worlds, which is what the CI contact benchmark runs, collided 25% slower than before the block-size change even though 20, 200, and 2000 worlds improved. Launch four times the resident block count instead so the hardware scheduler balances the chunk tail. Measured collide times in the example's default non-deterministic mode (ms, main -> now): 20 worlds 0.207 -> 0.189, 50: 0.358 -> 0.320, 100: 0.541 -> 0.512, 200: 0.967 -> 0.865, 400: 1.776 -> 1.555, 2000: 7.565 -> 6.519. Contacts are bit-identical. The CI step benchmark (MuJoCo solver, 20 frames) is back to parity within noise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The FastExampleContact*Defaults benchmarks time whole simulation frames of the nut/bolt examples at their default world counts, where the solver hides the collision cost: a 15% faster SDF collide step moves that benchmark by well under its noise. Add FastExampleContactSdfCollide and FastExampleContactHydroCollide, which build the same examples with 200 worlds, capture CollisionPipeline.collide alone into a CUDA graph, and replay it 20 times per sample. Setup cost is comparable to the defaults benchmarks (the same assets and SDF cache are reused) and each sample takes about 20 ms, so the PR gate grows by a few seconds. Locally the new benchmarks report 20.3 -> 17.2 ms (SDF) and 18.7 -> 10.8 ms (hydro) between main and this branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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5–14%faster execution for a nut/bolt SDF scene across20–2000worlds, but it does not support the inline25%figure for scenes around100pairs. Remove that figure or add its workload, device, repetitions, and measurement method. Keep only the four-wave and CPU-target rationale in the source comment.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Avoid publishing reducer voxel keys before contact allocation succeeds. Preserve canonical samples at coarse-fine SDF boundaries and scan only the live hydroelastic pair count. Expand regression coverage for reducer clearing, scan boundaries, and batched voxel-corner reads.
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The hardened voxel corner read fell back to eight per-vertex lookups for every voxel touching a subgrid block boundary, about a third of all marching-cubes voxels, so the hydroelastic generate kernel lost part of its gain. The per-vertex rule only differs from the batched read when a touched block lacks fine data: adjacent fine blocks store identical values for their shared border vertices (verified over ~24M shared vertices of the nut/bolt SDFs with zero mismatches). Read the slots of the touched neighbor blocks and keep the batched path when all of them are fine. Hydroelastic nut/bolt contacts stay bit-identical to main; the collide step improves from 0.371 to 0.364 ms at 100 worlds and from 2.11 to 2.05 ms at 1000 worlds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The hardened export path seeded still_wins with voxel_entry_missing, so a contact whose provisional normal-slot wins had already been superseded skipped the ownership check whenever the voxel key was unpublished. It then allocated a contact ID, its final slot updates were no-ops, and the ID stayed allocated but unreferenced, which can exhaust the buffer under contention. Run the ownership check first and treat the unpublished voxel entry as a claim only when no normal-slot win survives. Gate the try-update-or- reclaim path and the insert-failure reclaim on that same condition, so a claimant that loses the voxel slot after allocating returns its ID even when it held superseded normal wins. Add a deterministic test for the voxel-only claim path: a tying contact claims an unpublished voxel entry and allocates, and a later tie against the published entry allocates nothing. The provisional-supersession race itself cannot be reproduced deterministically from outside the function, and a wide race cannot assert exact ID counts because contacts that are materialized and later superseded also leave unreferenced IDs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The count-aware scan indexes its scratch buffer per chunk, but the scratch was sized for the CPU chunk of eight counts on every device, which is 256 times what the CUDA kernels can address. At large hydroelastic capacities that wasted well over 100 MB per pipeline. Derive the scratch length from the chunk size of the target device. Also drop an inline comment that repeated the docstring of the voxel corner read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1777-1787: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReclaim losing voxel-only allocations when reclamation is disabled.
When concurrent threads find the same missing voxel key, they can allocate separate contact IDs before one loses
reduction_try_update_slot. The defaultNarrowPhasepath passesenable_contact_reclamation=FalsetoGlobalContactReducer, so the losing call toreclaim_contact_idis a no-op.contact_countthen includes the unreferenced ID, and later valid contacts can fail from premature buffer exhaustion. Ensure voxel-only losing reservations remain reclaimable, or atomically claim the voxel slot before callingexport_contact_to_buffer. Add a regression test for concurrent voxel-only contenders with reclamation disabled.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 1130: Extend the ASV benchmark coverage for scan_with_total to compare
its fixed-num_blocks path against the fallback path for empty, small-active, and
near-capacity inputs on both CPU and CUDA, using representative input sizes that
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- Line 245: Add assertions around the scan setup using _scan_scratch_size and
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Description
Improve hydroelastic and mesh-SDF contact performance by scanning only active records, reducing texture lookups, and increasing parallelism in contact generation and cleanup. Also avoid publishing voxel keys when contact allocation is exhausted.
Checklist
Test plan
Run the SDF and hydroelastic contact ASV benchmarks in
asv/benchmarks/simulation/bench_contacts.py.Bug fix
Steps to reproduce:
Minimal reproduction:
Covered by
test_centered_two_spatial_depths_full_buffer_does_not_publish_voxel_key.Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
Bug Fixes
Testing