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perf(analysis): k-means and Kernel Density make their rows on several cores (#1252) - #1384
k-means, the Classification Wizard (raster.classify), and Kernel Density (kernelDensity) now run on several cores.
k-means
The centres are still found on a sample of the pixels, which is cheap. The pass that gives every pixel its nearest centre is most of the run, and each pixel is labelled on its own, so it now runs on parallel::for_each_row. No-data pixels stay no-data, and the output is the same bit for bit.
Kernel Density
Each point adds its kernel to the cells around it, so rows can't simply be split. Instead the rows are cut into strips, a few per thread, so strips that cost more are shared out. Each strip goes through the points in their order and only touches its own rows, so every cell adds the same contributions in the same order as on one thread: the output is the same bit for bit.
Work limit:MAX_DENSITY_WORK (50 million cell visits) is now the one-thread limit and scales with the threads through parallel::work_cap, as Viewshed's, IDW's and Kriging's do. Its error now names the limit and the threads counted. In the browser, on one thread, the limit stays as it is.
Progress: each strip counts its points, and checks for a cancel every 4096 points or every million cells their kernels reach, whichever comes first. A run of a few points with large kernels therefore still reports progress and can be cancelled.
Cancel: a cancelled run comes back as cancelled rather than as an unfinished grid. run_with already dropped such a result, so this wasn't visible to users.
Timings
One thread → all cores (40-core box, at most 16 threads):
Run
One thread
All cores
k-means, 4000 × 4000, 4 bands, 10 classes
1.06 s
0.22 s
Kernel Density, 15,000 points, 2050 × 2050 cells
0.31 s
0.12 s
Kernel Density, 200,000 points (540 million visits)
refused
0.37 s
Docs
The analysis guide's paragraph on limits that scale with threads now names Kernel Density. As promised on #1376, it also says that the "up to about twice as long" figure was measured on one machine and can be longer on others.
Tests
kmeans_on_several_threads_is_kmeans_on_one: three bands with no-data, one thread against four, bit for bit.
kernel_density_on_several_threads_is_on_one: 3,000 weighted points whose kernels cross strip edges, for both kernels.
kernel_density_progress_ends_at_its_total: 101 rows on 16 threads, which make 51 strips, not 64.
excessive_workload_is_rejected now runs on one thread, since several threads may take the same work.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
Kernel density calculations and cluster assignment now use multiple threads, which can speed up larger analyses while preserving consistent results across thread counts.
Reliability
Cancelled kernel density calculations now report an error instead of returning an incomplete grid.
Cluster assignment now responds to cancellation.
Documentation
The analysis guide now includes the kernel density run limit of 50 million estimated cell visits and notes that desktop processing times vary by hardware.
… cores (opengeos#1252)
k-means finds its centres on a sample of the pixels; the pass that gives
every pixel its nearest centre now runs on parallel::for_each_row.
Kernel Density cuts its rows into strips, a few per thread. Each strip
takes the points that reach it in their order, so every cell adds the
same contributions in the same order as on one thread: the result is bit
for bit the same. Its work limit now scales with the threads
(parallel::work_cap), as Viewshed's, IDW's and Kriging's do, and its
error names the limit and the threads counted. A cancelled run comes
back as cancelled rather than as an unfinished grid.
Kernel Density now accumulates raster rows in parallel and returns cancellation errors. K-means assigns pixels by row in parallel after calculating cluster centres. The analysis guide adds Kernel Density work-limit guidance and updates desktop timing details.
Changes: Parallel raster analysis
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Summary
Kernel Density threaded execution crates/analysis/src/density.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
Kernel Density selects or receives a thread count, applies a thread-scaled work cap, and processes rows in strips. Strip-level progress and cancellation checks are added, and cancellation returns an error. Tests compare single-thread and multi-thread results, verify progress totals, and check cancellation. The guide adds the 50-million-cell limit and desktop timing details.
K-means assigns valid pixels to ranked classes in parallel by row. Invalid pixels retain no-data values. Tests compare single-thread and multi-thread results and check cancellation.
sequenceDiagram
participant KernelDensity
participant AccumulateDensity
participant RowStrips
KernelDensity->>AccumulateDensity: Pass kernel and selected thread count
AccumulateDensity->>RowStrips: Distribute raster rows across strips
RowStrips->>AccumulateDensity: Return row updates and progress or cancellation result
AccumulateDensity->>KernelDensity: Return raster or cancellation error
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Tracking: analysis tools on several cores #1252: This PR adds row-based parallel assignment for k-means and row-strip processing for Kernel Density. Other tools named in the issue are not covered.
The parallel implementations preserve cancellation behavior in the inspected paths. Additional mid-run cancellation tests would improve regression coverage, but neither remaining suggestion blocks merging after normal checks.
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A rabbit watched the raster rows, As Kernel Density’s thread count grows. The k-means pixels find their place, While no-data keeps its quiet space. Progress ticks; cancellation calls, And springtime hops through row-strip walls.
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Checked the diff, the surrounding parallel.rs and control.rs, the call sites in tools.rs, and the tool-level density test. I found no correctness bugs. Both parallel paths keep the same per-cell and per-pixel order as one thread, so the bit-for-bit claims hold. Cancellation, progress totals, and the 0-width and 0-row guards in k-means also check out. Prior review threads: none were on the PR, so none were left alone.
Bugs: none found.
Security: none found. No new input parsing, and no new unwrap, expect, or panic in non-test code.
Performance:
Each strip rescans the full point list, so scan cost grows as strips × points and is not counted in the work estimate. Multi-core still wins at the thresholds I worked through, so this is only an efficiency note. (confidence: low)
Quality:
Inline nit posted at crates/analysis/src/density.rs:188: the + 1 in the progress total comes from for_each_row's per-strip count, which the comment does not say. (confidence: high)
docs/user-guide/analysis.md says Kernel Density refuses runs that "reach" more than 50 million cells. The check actually counts each point's full bandwidth window (a square of side 2·radius/cell + 2) times the point count, which overestimates reach. (confidence: medium)
The new cancel path (accumulate_density returns Cancelled, kernel_density returns "cancelled") and the k-means cancel path have no test. (confidence: medium)
AGENTS.md: no violations found. No new dependency, no wasm breakage (threads_for_rows returns 1 on wasm), and the error strings follow the existing plain-English style.
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Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base d700f52 to PR head c459393).
Limit strip work, not only the thread-scaled total.
work_cap multiplies the one-thread limit by the thread count. Each density strip runs on one thread, and clustered points can fill only a few strips. On admitted inputs, the run can take about three to four times the one-thread limit. Bound the work per strip, or compute the cap from the strips that receive work.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/density.rs at line 326:
Update the density work cap near `work_cap` so it limits work per strip rather
than scaling the one-thread limit by the total thread count; alternatively,
calculate the cap using only strips that actually receive work. Preserve the
existing admission behavior while ensuring clustered points cannot exceed the
intended one-thread work limit by concentrating work in a few strips.
Check cancellation inside a point's kernel.
199-200: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | 💤 Low value
Check cancellation inside a point's kernel.
Cancellation is checked only at the top of a point iteration, and only when i - counted == PROGRESS_POINTS || cells >= PROGRESS_CELLS. The row and column loops of the kernel have no check. A single point can add up to the full capped bounding box to cells, so a cancel request can wait for that one kernel to finish. The stall is bounded by one point's kernel.
Add a cancellation check after each row of the kernel. Count the visits per row, and do not add the full bounding box up front. The check then follows the PROGRESS_CELLS cadence. Confirm that the cancelled path discards the partial strip output before it returns.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/density.rs around lines 199 - 200:
Update the kernel’s row and column loops around the `PROGRESS_CELLS`
cancellation check to count visited cells per row instead of adding the full
bounding box upfront, and check for cancellation after each row at the required
cadence. Ensure cancellation discards any partially produced strip output before
returning.
Add a multi-thread test above the one-thread work limit.
Add a multi-thread test above the one-thread work limit.
No density test runs a workload above MAX_DENSITY_WORK on more than one thread. kernel_density_on applies the limit as work_cap(MAX_DENSITY_WORK, threads) at crates/analysis/src/density.rs:326. If that call were replaced with the bare MAX_DENSITY_WORK, every density test would still pass.
Add a test that calls kernel_density_on(Some(4), ...) with about 60 million cell visits and asserts Ok. That workload exceeds the one-thread limit of 50 million and stays within the four-thread limit of 200 million. Keep the existing Some(1) rejection test.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/density.rs at line 541:
Add a density test using kernel_density_on with Some(4) and valid inputs that
produce about 60 million cell visits, then assert it returns Ok. Keep the
existing Some(1) rejection test unchanged so the tests distinguish the
per-thread work cap from a fixed MAX_DENSITY_WORK limit.
Add a test for a density run that is cancelled before it starts.
Add a test for a density run that is cancelled before it starts.
Neither density test calls cancel(). A change that returns a raster after cancellation would pass both tests. This test cancels the run before kernel_density_on is called, and asserts that the call returns an error:
The test protects the error path. The cancelled run takes no rows, so for_each_row returns the cancellation error, and accumulate_density and kernel_density_on propagate it. The test does not cover cancellation partway through a strip. That path needs a deterministic trigger.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/density.rs around lines 648 - 653:
Add a test beside kernel_density_progress_ends_at_its_total that cancels the
installed Control before calling kernel_density_on, then assert the call returns
an error. Reuse the existing points, extent, and density parameters as
appropriate; keep the change focused on covering propagation of pre-start
cancellation.
Cover a no-data pixel that is invalid only in a later band.
Cover a no-data pixel that is invalid only in a later band.
In kmeans_on_several_threads_is_kmeans_on_one, every band has -9999 at the same indices (i % 97 == 0). A check that tests only band 0 produces the same output on this fixture, so the test still passes. Give band 2 a no-data pixel that the other bands do not share. Then assert that this pixel is NODATA in the output.
Suggested test change
- let r =- Raster::new("k", w, h, vec![band(0), band(1), band(2)], gt, Crs::LonLat, Some(-9999.0), ColorHint::Gray, "Float32").unwrap();+ let mut late: Vec<f32> = band(2);+ for i in (0..n).step_by(89) {+ late[i] = -9999.0;+ }+ let r =+ Raster::new("k", w, h, vec![band(0), band(1), late], gt, Crs::LonLat, Some(-9999.0), ColorHint::Gray, "Float32").unwrap();
Pixel 89 is invalid only in band 2. Assert that the output value at index 89 equals NODATA. The new no-data pixels can change the centre sample, so re-check the existing 7.0 assertion after this change.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs around lines 1296 - 1299:
Update the fixture in `kmeans_on_several_threads_is_kmeans_on_one` so band 2 has
a no-data pixel at index 89 that bands 0 and 1 do not share, while preserving
the existing shared no-data pixels. Assert that the output at index 89 is
`NODATA`, and re-check the existing `7.0` assertion because the added invalid
pixel may change the center sample.
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The guide says what Kernel Density's limit counts (each point's search
window), and the progress comment names the count for_each_row adds.
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Performance / possible bug (medium confidence, from reading the code, not measured). The work cap scales with threads on the assumption that the threads share the cell visits evenly. Here the strips are equal in rows, but the visits are not: a point's visits fall only in the strips its kernel reaches. Points clustered in one or two strips leave the other threads idle. The run then takes roughly as long as the whole scaled cap on one thread, up to about 16 times the one-thread budget. The new docs paragraph ("can take up to about twice as long as a one-thread run at its own") does not hold for this case.
Example: the PR's own 200,000-point run (540 million visits, 0.37 s on all cores) would take about 2.7 s at roughly 5 ns per visit if its points were clustered in a few strips.
Suggestion: split the strips by estimated work, not rows. Count each row's visits with a difference array over the points' row ranges (O(points + rows)), then cut the strips at equal cumulative counts. Alternatively, size the cap from the largest strip's share. Either way, add a test with clustered points that checks the speed-up or the cap.
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Performance (low confidence). Every strip scans all points, and computes each point's column and row bounds again, so the scan costs about strips × points steps. total_work leaves that scan out. A run with many points and small kernels (for example 1 million points, each reaching about 36 cells) can spend more time in the scan than in the cell visits, and that can cancel the gain from threads. Computing each point's bounds once (a Vec of four usize per point, or a per-strip list of the points that reach it) would remove the repeated work. Worth a benchmark on that shape before merging.
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Nit (docs wording, and this line is much longer than its neighbours): the limit is on the sum over all points of each point's search window, so overlapping windows count once per point. "whose points' search windows cover more than 50 million cells" reads as the union of the windows. Something like "whose search windows, counted for each point, come to more than 50 million cells" would match the code. Also rewrap this paragraph at the same width as the rest.
I did not build or run the tests; this review is from reading the diff and the surrounding code. The k-means and cancellation paths look correct, and I found no crash paths or silent data loss.
Bugs
Work cap assumes an even split across threads (density.rs:184), medium confidence. Kernel Density strips are equal in rows, but cell visits are not. Clustered points land in a few strips, so the run takes close to the whole scaled cap on one thread, up to about 16× the one-thread budget. The new docs sentence ("up to about twice as long") does not hold for that case. Suggested fix is in the inline comment.
Security
None found.
Performance
Each strip rescans all points (density.rs:198), low confidence. The scan costs about strips × points and is not counted in total_work. Many points with small kernels could lose the thread gain. A benchmark on that shape would settle it.
Quality
Docs wording (docs/user-guide/analysis.md:75), nit. The limit sums each point's window, not the union of the windows. The line is also much longer than its neighbours.
k-means: the w == 0 guard is needed because chunks_mut(0) panics. The per-row cancel and progress accounting are correct.
AGENTS.md
No unwrap, expect or unsafe added to non-test code. The wasm path returns one thread before available_parallelism is called. Cancellation is surfaced as an error rather than a partial grid, which matches the rules.
The +1 in the progress total is now explained, as the earlier thread asked.
Prior reviews
I left 2 earlier concerns alone. The first is the work cap sized from requested threads (spawn failure), which the author answered and CodeRabbit withdrew. The second is the +1 comment, which was fixed in 94417a2.
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Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base d700f52 to PR head 94417a2).
Add a one-thread mid-run cancellation test for the density strip loop.
The new test cancels the run before it starts. The run stops at the entry check, so no strip runs. Removing the in-loop cancellation poll in accumulate_density (crates/analysis/src/density.rs, lines 199-203) leaves this test passing.
Add a test that calls kernel_density_on with Some(1) for one thread. Use a workload large enough to outlast a watcher thread. Cancel the run after progress() reports done rows. Assert that the run returns CANCELLED and that done is below total. Use the watcher structure of a_tool_cancelled_while_it_runs_stops_with_how_far_it_came in crates/analysis/src/tools.rs. That test cancels idwInterpolation, so only its watcher pattern applies.
This adds coverage for behavior that already works. It does not indicate a current failure. Select one thread only. With several threads, strips in flight can finish after cancellation, so the assertion does not isolate the poll.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/density.rs around lines 665 - 667:
Add a mid-run cancellation test for `kernel_density_on` that uses `Some(1)` and
a workload large enough for a watcher thread to observe progress. Follow the
watcher pattern in `a_tool_cancelled_while_it_runs_stops_with_how_far_it_came`,
cancel only after `progress()` reports done rows, and assert the result is
`CANCELLED` with done below total; keep this test focused on coverage rather
than changing `accumulate_density`.
Add a k-means test that cancels while rows are assigned.
Add a k-means test that cancels while rows are assigned.
The only k-means cancellation test cancels before kmeans_on starts. An entry check that returns the cancellation error at the start of kmeans_on would still pass that test. No k-means test covers a cancellation that arrives during the row-assignment pass. The mid-run cancellation test calls for_each_row directly, so it does not exercise the error path through kmeans_on.
kmeans_on has no way to cancel at a chosen point in the pass. A test that waits for progress and then cancels can run after the pass finishes on a small raster. Such a test needs a deterministic way to hold the pass before cancelling.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs around lines 1306 - 1308:
Add a k-means cancellation test that cancels after row assignment has begun and
verifies `kmeans_on` returns `crate::control::CANCELLED`. Use a deterministic
test synchronization point in the assignment pass so cancellation cannot race
with completion; keep the mechanism from changing normal production behavior and
retain the existing pre-cancel test.
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Part of #1252.
k-means, the Classification Wizard (
raster.classify), and Kernel Density (kernelDensity) now run on several cores.k-means
The centres are still found on a sample of the pixels, which is cheap. The pass that gives every pixel its nearest centre is most of the run, and each pixel is labelled on its own, so it now runs on
parallel::for_each_row. No-data pixels stay no-data, and the output is the same bit for bit.Kernel Density
Each point adds its kernel to the cells around it, so rows can't simply be split. Instead the rows are cut into strips, a few per thread, so strips that cost more are shared out. Each strip goes through the points in their order and only touches its own rows, so every cell adds the same contributions in the same order as on one thread: the output is the same bit for bit.
MAX_DENSITY_WORK(50 million cell visits) is now the one-thread limit and scales with the threads throughparallel::work_cap, as Viewshed's, IDW's and Kriging's do. Its error now names the limit and the threads counted. In the browser, on one thread, the limit stays as it is.run_withalready dropped such a result, so this wasn't visible to users.Timings
One thread → all cores (40-core box, at most 16 threads):
Docs
The analysis guide's paragraph on limits that scale with threads now names Kernel Density. As promised on #1376, it also says that the "up to about twice as long" figure was measured on one machine and can be longer on others.
Tests
kmeans_on_several_threads_is_kmeans_on_one: three bands with no-data, one thread against four, bit for bit.kernel_density_on_several_threads_is_on_one: 3,000 weighted points whose kernels cross strip edges, for both kernels.kernel_density_progress_ends_at_its_total: 101 rows on 16 threads, which make 51 strips, not 64.excessive_workload_is_rejectednow runs on one thread, since several threads may take the same work.Summary by CodeRabbit
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