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feat(analysis): Viewshed, IDW and Kriging take as many times the work as the threads they run on (#1291 step 2) - #1376
Part of #1291, step 2 (desktop caps scaled to the machine): the work caps. It follows #1372 (the memory caps).
What
Viewshed, IDW Interpolation and Kriging refuse a run whose work passes a cap tuned for one thread, "about a second or two" of it. Since these tools make their rows on several cores (#1254, #1273, #1283), the same work takes a fraction of that time, so the caps were much stricter than meant (#1291, problem 2).
A run's cap is now the one-thread cap times the threads it runs on:
Tool
One-thread cap
On 16 threads
Viewshed (ray steps)
400 million
6.4 billion
IDW (cell-point pairs)
400 million
6.4 billion
Kriging
40 million
640 million
On 16 threads these tools measured 8–11× faster here (#1365, #1368, #1369), so a run at the scaled cap takes up to about twice the time the cap was tuned for, not 16 times. In the browser, on one thread, the caps are as they were. A 0.5 m viewshed (#1291's swissALTI3D example) reaches about 2.5 times the radius on 16 threads, since its work grows with the cube of the radius. The error now names the cap on this computer and the threads it counted.
All three honour Cancel and report progress (#1311, #1317), so a longer run can be stopped.
How
parallel::work_cap(one_thread, threads) is new: the cap times the threads, saturating.
Each tool works out its threads first (threads_for_rows, with the same work value as before), then checks the cap, still before it allocates its output.
The tools' default cell sizes (tools.rs, IDW's and Kriging's pickers) still follow the one-thread caps, so a tool makes the same default grid on any computer. Only a finer cell size asked for gets the larger cap.
Not in this part
Kernel Density works through its points on one thread, so a cap per thread doesn't apply. It keeps MAX_DENSITY_WORK.
Network routing, sketch editing and deep-learning classification: their caps bound serial loops or are already generous, and are left as they are.
Tests
a_work_cap_grows_with_the_threads_a_run_takes: the cap times the threads, one thread for none, no overflow.
idw_past_one_threads_work_is_refused_on_one_naming_the_cap: 500 million pairs on one thread are refused, and the error names the 400 million cap and the one thread.
The viewshed, IDW and Kriging tests on several threads pass unchanged. hostile_params_never_panic takes as long as on main (70 s for the engine's first shard on this machine).
cargo xtask ci passes locally (fmt, clippy, tests, layers), apart from two tests that fail only on this machine (GDAL and a damaged-Shapefile fixture).
Docs: the analysis guide says how the limits follow the threads.
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New Features
Viewshed, IDW Interpolation, and Kriging can process larger workloads on desktop computers when multiple cores are used. The supported work limit scales with the number of threads.
Important
Web runs remain subject to single-thread work limits. Runs that exceed the applicable limit are refused, and the error message reports the limit and thread count.
Documentation
The user guide explains these work limits and how they apply to desktop and web runs.
… as the threads they run on (opengeos#1291 step 2)
Their work caps were tuned for one thread, "about a second or two". Since they run their rows on
several cores (opengeos#1254, opengeos#1273, opengeos#1283) the same work takes a fraction of that, so the caps were much
stricter than meant. A run's cap is now the one-thread cap times the threads it runs on
(parallel::work_cap), worked out before the check: up to 16 times on the desktop, unchanged in
the browser and on one thread. The error names the cap on this computer and the threads.
The tools' default cell sizes still follow the one-thread caps, so they make the same grid on any
computer. Kernel Density works on one thread and keeps its cap; the topology check's waits for
opengeos#1347–opengeos#1349, which rework it.
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Walkthrough
Kriging, Viewshed, and IDW now use work limits that scale with the selected thread count. The guide describes these limits for desktop and web runs.
Changes: Analysis work limits
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Shared thread-adjusted cap crates/analysis/src/parallel.rs
Added work_cap, which scales a one-thread limit by at least one thread using saturating multiplication. Tests cover zero, one, and multiple threads, and overflow.
Analysis tool work checks crates/analysis/src/kriging.rs, crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
Kriging, Viewshed, and IDW check estimated work against a cap scaled to the selected thread count. Errors include the cap and thread count. The guide describes the desktop and web limits, and an IDW test checks an over-cap error.
Issue 1291: The PR scales work caps for Viewshed, IDW, and Kriging by desktop thread count while retaining one-thread limits for web runs.
Issue 1252: The PR applies thread-scaled limits to IDW and Kriging, and also to Viewshed.
Issue 1111: The PR adjusts the work limits for the threaded Viewshed, IDW, and Kriging analysis paths.
Issue 1227: The PR scales the IDW work cap according to the selected thread count.
Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1273: This PR changes work checks in the row-parallel IDW and Kriging paths added by PR #1273.
opengeos/RustGIS#1283: This PR scales the Viewshed work cap using the selected thread count in the row-parallel path added by PR #1283.
opengeos/RustGIS#1311: This PR updates preflight checks in the Viewshed, IDW, and Kriging paths that use the processing contract added by PR #1311.
Suggested reviewers:giswqs, quanguet0409
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Desktop runs can accept more work than their actual workers justify if worker creation fails, causing longer runtimes. This bounded fallback concern warrants owner awareness or follow-up; no broader merge-blocking failure is established.
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Verdict: no bugs or security issues found. The change is sound as written. Two low-confidence notes below; no inline comments posted.
Bugs: None found. Checked:
In all three tools the cap is one_thread_cap × threads, with threads ≥ 1 and saturating multiplication. A run can only be accepted more often than before, never less. (High confidence.)
The cap check still runs before new_band in viewshed, IDW and Kriging, so refused runs don't allocate output. (High confidence.)
Viewshed computes ray_work from the unclipped radius but takes threads from the clipped row count. For thin windows this makes the cap smaller, which is the conservative direction, so the per-thread time bound still holds. (High confidence.)
The IDW check now runs after the power validation instead of before it. Only the error that wins changes for inputs that fail both checks. (High confidence this is harmless.)
Security: None found.
Performance:
Low confidence (~35%). The docs and PR say a run at the scaled cap "takes about as long" as a one-thread run at the original cap. That assumes linear scaling to available_parallelism(), which counts logical CPUs. With SMT, or with viewshed's memory-bound DEM reads, 16 threads may take 1.5–2× the one-thread budget. Consider softening the wording, or basing the thread count on physical cores.
Quality:
Medium confidence (~60%). No test exercises the new scaled cap for viewshed or Kriging. Only the IDW refusal and the work_cap helper are tested. This is a test-coverage point, so it may wait for the release quality pass.
The claim that hostile_params_never_panic takes as long as on main can't be verified from the diff. The higher caps mean junk parameters that were previously refused may now run up to 16× more work on a 16-core machine.
AGENTS.md: Compliant on the points I checked. No unwrap, expect, panic or unsafe is added. Refusals are returned as errors, not silent drops. Tests and the analysis guide are updated. The analysis crate has no tl! or i18n usage, so the translation rule doesn't apply to its error strings.
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Base the work cap on the workers that actually start.
49-49: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Poor tradeoff
Base the work cap on the workers that actually start.
work_cap multiplies the one-thread cap by the requested thread count. for_each_row then starts only the workers whose spawn_scoped succeeds (.ok() drops failures silently), and the calling thread always runs the remaining rows. If spawns fail, a run admitted under the scaled cap can take roughly the requested-thread multiple of the one-thread time, until the user cancels. The results stay correct. Consider passing the started worker count into the cap check, or returning an error when a spawn fails.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/parallel.rs at line 49:
Update the work_cap check and for_each_row worker setup so the cap reflects
workers that successfully start, not the requested thread count; alternatively,
propagate spawn_scoped failures instead of silently dropping them and proceeding
under the requested-thread cap. Preserve the existing row-processing behavior
when all requested workers start.
Add admission tests above the 16-thread caps for IDW, Viewshed, and Kriging.
Add admission tests above the 16-thread caps for IDW, Viewshed, and Kriging.
The one-thread test checks only that one thread refuses work above 400 million. The existing multi-thread tests stay below the one-thread caps, so a call site that reverts to a fixed cap would still pass every test. Viewshed and Kriging have no admission test.
Test each tool's cap check through its entry point with an explicit thread count. Work above the 16-thread cap is refused before any computation, so these tests stay cheap. Assert that the error names the thread-scaled cap. A reverted fixed cap would name the one-thread value and fail the assertion. A helper that is tested alone would not catch this, because a caller could still bypass it.
For IDW, add this case to the body of idw_past_one_threads_work_is_refused_on_one_naming_the_cap, after its existing assertion. Rename the test to cover both cases:
let many:Vec<_> = pts.iter().cycle().take(7_000).cloned().collect();let e = idw_on(Some(16),&many,&extent,0.01,2.0,0,"idw").unwrap_err();assert!(
e.contains(&format!("{} cell-point pairs",crate::parallel::work_cap(MAX_IDW_WORK,16))) && e.contains("on 16 thread(s)"),"{e}");
The 1000 × 1000 grid with 7,000 points is 7 billion pairs, above the 6,400,000,000 cap for 16 threads.
For Kriging, call the entry point that takes the thread count with Some(16), the default neighbour count, and a 1000 × 1000 grid at cell size 0.01 with 100 points. That gives 1,000,000 × (100 + 576) work units, above the 640,000,000 cap. Assert that the error contains crate::parallel::work_cap(MAX_KRIGING_WORK, 16).
For Viewshed, call viewshed_on(Some(16), ...) with a radius whose ray-step count exceeds crate::parallel::work_cap(MAX_VIEWSHED_WORK, 16) at the fixture's cell size. Assert that the error contains that cap.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs around lines 1232 - 1234:
Add entry-point admission tests for IDW, Kriging, and Viewshed using an explicit
16-thread count and workloads above each tool’s scaled cap; assert each error
names the 16-thread cap. Extend and rename
`idw_past_one_threads_work_is_refused_on_one_naming_the_cap` to cover the
16-thread case alongside its existing one-thread assertion. For Kriging and
Viewshed, use their thread-count entry points and workloads that exceed their
respective caps, verifying rejection occurs before computation.
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hostile_params_never_panic: measured, not inferred: the engine's first shard (tests::hostile_params_never_panic_0) takes 70 s on main and 70 s on this branch on that machine; the hostile values are refused by the cell and memory caps (25 M cells for a viewshed, max_pixels() for IDW and Kriging) before the work cap matters.
A refusal test for Viewshed and Kriging: the scaled path is the same work_cap call in all three, covered by a_work_cap_grows_with_the_threads_a_run_takes and the IDW refusal test. Leaving the other two for the release quality pass.
Bugs: None found. The cap is one_thread_cap × threads, checked before any output allocation, and it reuses the same threads value the run uses. The browser stays at one thread because threads_for_rows returns 1 on wasm. work_cap saturates, and the tools' default grid sizes still use the unchanged one-thread constants (tools.rs:2620, tools.rs:2760), so defaults don't change across machines.
Minor, confidence low: for_each_row silently skips threads that fail to spawn (.ok() in parallel.rs), so the cap can be sized for more threads than actually run. The effect is a longer run than the doc describes, not a crash or wrong output.
Security: None found. Inputs are still bounded before work and allocation, and no new unchecked arithmetic was introduced.
Performance: No regressions in the code. The change deliberately raises the work ceiling to 16× on 16 cores, and the PR body records that hostile_params_never_panic takes about 70 s as a result. Confidence high.
Quality:
Test gap, low severity, confidence high: the acceptance path has no test. Only the one-thread refusal is covered (inline comment at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:1232). Neither the viewshed nor the kriging refusal path is tested.
Design note, confidence medium: the accept/refuse result now depends on the machine's core count, so a scripted run with an explicit cell size can pass on one machine and fail on another. The error names the thread count, and the docs say the default grid is still fixed, but the CLI and Python users may not expect this.
AGENTS.md: No violations in the changed lines. The new messages use format!, the same pattern as the rest of the analysis crate's errors, which don't go through tl!. The unwrap rules are respected. The docs describe the change.
Already raised: 0. The prior-review thread list is empty.
Posted inline: 2 comments, on crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:1232 (test gap) and docs/user-guide/analysis.md:76 (the "about twice as long" bound rests on a single 16-thread measurement; logical CPUs and memory bandwidth can make it worse).
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Part of #1291, step 2 (desktop caps scaled to the machine): the work caps. It follows #1372 (the memory caps).
What
Viewshed, IDW Interpolation and Kriging refuse a run whose work passes a cap tuned for one thread, "about a second or two" of it. Since these tools make their rows on several cores (#1254, #1273, #1283), the same work takes a fraction of that time, so the caps were much stricter than meant (#1291, problem 2).
A run's cap is now the one-thread cap times the threads it runs on:
On 16 threads these tools measured 8–11× faster here (#1365, #1368, #1369), so a run at the scaled cap takes up to about twice the time the cap was tuned for, not 16 times. In the browser, on one thread, the caps are as they were. A 0.5 m viewshed (#1291's swissALTI3D example) reaches about 2.5 times the radius on 16 threads, since its work grows with the cube of the radius. The error now names the cap on this computer and the threads it counted.
All three honour Cancel and report progress (#1311, #1317), so a longer run can be stopped.
How
parallel::work_cap(one_thread, threads)is new: the cap times the threads, saturating.threads_for_rows, with the same work value as before), then checks the cap, still before it allocates its output.tools.rs, IDW's and Kriging's pickers) still follow the one-thread caps, so a tool makes the same default grid on any computer. Only a finer cell size asked for gets the larger cap.Not in this part
MAX_DENSITY_WORK.MAX_WORKwaits for fix(analysis): keep polar geometry through the geometry tools (#1033) #1347, fix(engine): edit polar features on the ground (#1033) #1348 and fix(analysis): measure radius searches on the ground near a pole, and meet at the poles (#1033) #1349, which rework howtopology.rscounts against it.Tests
a_work_cap_grows_with_the_threads_a_run_takes: the cap times the threads, one thread for none, no overflow.idw_past_one_threads_work_is_refused_on_one_naming_the_cap: 500 million pairs on one thread are refused, and the error names the 400 million cap and the one thread.hostile_params_never_panictakes as long as onmain(70 s for the engine's first shard on this machine).cargo xtask cipasses locally (fmt, clippy, tests, layers), apart from two tests that fail only on this machine (GDAL and a damaged-Shapefile fixture).Summary by CodeRabbit