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Job System + WebGL

Discussion in 'C# Job System' started by RSpicer, Mar 27, 2018.

  1. RSpicer

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    What's the current status of the Job System in WebGL builds (asm.js or WebAssembly)? What I've observed, in 2018.1b11:

    * IJobParallelFor works as expected in standalone builds and the editor, as long as I call job.Schedule().
    * Switch build type to WebGL, and jobs don't execute. They seem to silently fail -- even though I call jobHandle.Complete() in LateUpdate, the contents of the NativeArray the job modifies remain unmodified.
    * Add an explicit JobHandle.ScheduleBatchedJobs() and everything works, but it seems to run computation on the main JS thread.

    Is this intended? I don't mind wrapping a JobHandle.ScheduleBatchedJobs in a conditional for WebGL, but hopefully sooner or later the jobs can be offloaded to WebWorkers..
     
    RSpicer, Mar 27, 2018
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  2. Schubkraft

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    Afaik the job system is not supported for WebGL atm due to being single threaded.

    But just silently failing is not nice behaviour. Can you please submit a bug report for this with a repro project and ping the case number here? Thanks!
     
    Schubkraft, Mar 27, 2018
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  3. superpig

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    So firstly I believe you should be calling JobHandle.ScheduleBatchedJobs on all platforms, not just WebGL. But yeah, as @Schubkraft says, silent failure is almost certainly not the behaviour we expect.

    Secondly, what you're describing sounds like expected behaviour to me - AFAIK we do not currently support WebWorkers, and all jobs run on the main thread (including engine jobs, not just C# jobs). If the WebGL team add WebWorkers later then I imagine that your jobs will Just Work, though looking at the WebWorkers documentation it looks like using them efficiently for the jobsystem will be a pretty difficult task, what with all the isolated context stuff.
     
    superpig, Mar 28, 2018
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  4. RSpicer

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    Thank you for the reply! Sounds like the error case may be "in the Editor and Windows Standalone, jobs run when scheduled with jobInstance.Schedule(), without calling JobHandle.ScheduleBatchedJobs()," then. I'll submit a minimal repro case to the bug tracker tomorrow.
     
    RSpicer, Mar 30, 2018
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  5. LeonhardP

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    Did you submit that report yet? It would be much appreciated! Please reply with the case # if you do.
     
    LeonhardP, Apr 3, 2018
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