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Part of #1252 (Ready item 1, Split).

Split now runs on several cores on the desktop, with the same layers as one thread, bit for bit.

What changed

• Split polygons: made into masks with overlay_zones_on, on several threads as the overlay tools do (perf(analysis): Intersect, Identity, Union and Symmetrical Difference work on several cores (#1252) #1740). The old overlay_zones wrapper had no other caller left, so it is folded into overlay_zones_on.
• Which features each area meets: found first, area by area, with the index's lookups. This pass has its own progress (per area) and looks at Cancel per area and every 4,096 features an area meets. It gives the main step's progress total.
• Input features: each one some area meets is made ready for the overlay (dissolved) once, on several threads. The old code did the same lazily.
• Areas: taken SPLIT_AREA_BATCH (4) a thread at a time.
  • Their masks (a union for an area of several polygons) are made on several threads from two areas on, each thread taking one area at a time. For that, parallel.rs gets try_map_each_on (as try_map_on, one item per take instead of 16) and threads_for_each (up to one thread per item), both tested.
  • Then every (area, feature) part is made on several threads, SPLIT_PART_CHUNK (65,536) parts at a time, so the list of parts and their results stays bounded however many features an area's extent takes in.
  • Each layer gets its features in the same order as before.
• Memory: the masks' threads are as many as half of scratch_budget() holds of a batch's masks and the union being made. The parts' threads are as many as the other half holds of twice the largest input feature's and area's coordinates.
• Cancel is looked at, and progress counted, item by item in each step. One feature made ready, one area's union and one part are each a step without a look, as the doc comment says. Split is already in long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run.

Benchmark

100,000 circles (64 vertices), release build:

Split areas	1 thread	16 threads
20 circles grouped by a field into 10 layers	3.83 s	0.64–0.70 s
1,000 small circles, one layer each	3.78 s	0.67–0.72 s
8 areas by a field, each a union of 2,000 detailed circles	16.90 s	2.06–2.09 s

Tests

split_on_several_threads_is_on_one checks that polygons (one part and several), lines and points give the same layers and messages on 2, 7 and 16 threads, and with the threads found by the sizes, as on one thread. It covers splits with and without a field (areas of one polygon and of several), features without geometry, an area that holds nothing, and several batches of areas and chunks of parts (the batch sizes are small in tests).

I also checked the one-thread output against main: the same hash over all six cases of that test.

cargo xtask ci passed locally, apart from three tests that fail on this machine on main too (FileGDB without GDAL, damaged shapefiles, and gpu_fastpath's settling_after_a_camera_animation_re_renders_fully). The wasm build of rustgis-web passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance Improvements
  • Geometry splitting can now make better use of available processing resources, especially for larger workloads.
  • Processing improvements apply to polygon, line, and point inputs, including splits performed per area or grouped by field.
• Reliability
  • Split results remain consistently ordered across single-threaded and multi-threaded processing.

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Walkthrough

Split now uses thread-aware processing for area masks and feature intersections. It bounds work by batch size and scratch-memory estimates, prepares needed input geometries once, and preserves output order. Tests compare results across thread counts.

Changes: Split processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Thread-aware scheduling crates/analysis/src/parallel.rs	Thread selection now limits worker counts by available cores, item count, and scratch-memory budget. Mapping supports configurable batch sizes, including one-item scheduling, and tests verify thread limits and ordered results.
Threaded Split processing crates/analysis/src/tools.rs	Split prepares candidate geometries once and processes masks and intersections in bounded batches. It uses overlay_zones_on with an optional thread count; the forwarding overlay_zones helper was removed. Regression tests compare outputs across thread counts for polygon, line, and point inputs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

• RustGIS issue 1252: The issue calls for Split to use multiple cores. This change parallelizes Split processing.
• RustGIS issue 1562: The issue calls for progress, cancellation, and multiple cores where practical. This change applies threaded processing to desktop Split.
• RustGIS issue 1291: The issue calls for scratch-memory limits, progress, and cancellation in analysis tools. This change bounds Split’s parallel work and retains progress and cancellation checks.

Possibly related PRs

• opengeos/RustGIS#1740: This change uses the thread-aware overlay-zone path and adds Split-specific batching and thread selection.
• opengeos/RustGIS#1779: Both changes use ordered parallel processing and constrain thread counts using workload and scratch-memory estimates.
• opengeos/RustGIS#1103: This PR introduced Split; the current change updates its geometry preparation and intersection processing.

Suggested reviewers: mavrick-f

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f8e11

Split on datasets with many multipart polygon candidates can use a lot of memory, because the cache of prepared geometries is not bounded. Bound that cache or add a fallback before merging.

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_{A rabbit checks the batches in a row,
The masks and features smoothly flow.
Threads lend paws, but keep their place,
Each result returns in order and grace.
The bunny rests beside the code.}

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Code review

Bugs: None found. The output-equivalence reasoning holds on reading: candidates keep the index order, features are dissolved once, parts are flushed in area order, and try_map_on returns results sorted by index. Cancel is checked per item (try_map_on checks and advances progress per item), and the progress total (needed + areas + pairs) matches the items actually advanced.

Security: None found. The new code has no unwrap, expect, panic, or indexing in non-test code. It uses .get() throughout.

Performance:

• The mask step runs on one thread for most real inputs. try_map_on fetches BATCH = 16 items at a time, and threads_for caps threads at items.div_ceil(16). A batch of 12 areas therefore runs serially, and the comment and PR text "from two areas on" is wrong. Inline comment posted. Confidence about 80%; from code reading, not timing.
• met_by runs twice for every area (once in the needed pass, again per batch). Minor. Confidence 90%.

Quality:

• The kept_union_bytes doc at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:1663 still says "a union kept by Clip", but Split now uses it for area sizes. Nit, left for the release quality pass.
• dissolved and the per-area mask union are single unions with no Cancel check inside. The split_on doc says Cancel is checked "item by item", without saying that one union can run long. Confidence 60%.

AGENTS.md:

• Same note as the last item above: the rule asks that a long step without a check be stated in its doc comment, and the split_on doc does not state it for the union steps. Confidence 60%.
• The test list in crates/engine/src/tests.rs already includes Split, so no change is needed there.

I left 0 earlier concerns alone: prior-reviews.json has no threads.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Additional comments: 1

crates/analysis/src/tools.rs-2455-2455: 1

2455-2455: Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

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Bound the part chunk by its result memory.

When many large input polygons overlap an area, try_map_on retains every completed part in the 65,536-item chunk before make adds any part to its output layer. part_work limits workers but does not charge that result array. A chunk of large polygon parts can therefore exhaust a memory-limited desktop even when the worker count satisfies the scratch cap. Size chunks by estimated result bytes, or drain smaller ordered chunks. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Based on learnings, temporary parallel work must respect the scratch-memory allowance.

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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Line 2543: Update the Split candidate-counting prepass around met_by and the
following needed loop to expose progress before control::begin and check Cancel
periodically while processing each area's candidates. Preserve the existing
candidate-counting behavior and use the surrounding progress and cancellation
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- Line 2581: Update the mask-work scheduling around threads_for_scratch and
try_map_on so automatic selection can use multiple workers for 2–16 areas and
assigns work in batches small enough to keep those workers busy. Preserve the
user thread limit and scratch cap when calculating workers; do not merely raise
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AGENTS.md asks that a long step without a Cancel look be named in its doc comment. This list omits one: each area's candidate lookup (met_by: candidates_into, then the retain). Without a grid (more than 16 features but over a million cell references), that lookup scans every feature for each area, and no control::check runs inside it. The first-pass check at the top of each area and the every-4,096 check come only after it returns. Naming the step keeps the doc accurate:

Suggested change

	/// is looked at, and progress counted, item by item in each step; one feature made ready, one
	/// area's union and one part are each a step without a look, which can be long for an area of
	/// many large polygons.
	/// is looked at, and progress counted, item by item in each step; one feature made ready, one
	/// area's candidate lookup (every feature, when the index has no grid), one area's union and one
	/// part are each a step without a look, which can be long for an area of many large polygons.

Confidence: about 60% that this is a doc gap rather than something to change in code; no behaviour change is proposed.

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Code review

I found no confirmed bugs. The split pipeline keeps the one-thread output: layers are ordered by area, the batch and chunk boundaries preserve order, and progress totals (needed + areas + pairs) match the items counted. I checked the helpers in parallel.rs (try_map_by, threads_for_each), the Cancel and progress paths, the wasm gating, and the test coverage. I could not compile or run the tests here (no shell), so compile correctness rests on the author's local CI run.

Bugs: none found.

Security: none found. The change adds no parsing, I/O or command ingress.

Performance

• The candidate lookup runs twice per area: once in the first pass (line 2548) to count pairs and mark needed features, and again per batch (line 2640). Without a grid, each lookup is a full scan of the features, done serially. Storing the per-area lists would avoid the second scan but costs about 8 bytes per pair. The benchmark already includes this cost, so I am not asking for a change. Confidence: 40%.
• The mask-thread memory estimate uses the zone polygons' own bytes (kept_union_bytes), not union_all's intermediate allocations. Boolean operations can peak above their output, so the "half of scratch budget" bound may be loose. Confidence: 30%.

Quality

• split_on is about 170 lines and mixes four phases (needed, masks, parts, layers). Splitting it into helpers would help readability. This is a quality point for the release quality pass.
• long_items_are_taken_one_at_a_time asserts that more than one thread ran. That holds only when spawns succeed and the 50 ms sleep overlaps, so it could fail on a constrained host. Confidence: 25%.

AGENTS.md

• Inline comment posted on crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2466-2468: the split_on doc comment does not name the per-area candidate lookup, which is a step without a Cancel look when the index has no grid. The comment includes a suggested doc edit. Confidence: 60%.

Prior review threads: 3 earlier concerns on this PR, all from coderabbitai and github-actions on tools.rs (progress during candidate counting, and the BATCH mask-thread issue, marked outdated). The author fixed each one in f8e1188, and I did not re-raise them. No replies remained open, so I left all 3 alone.

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Major · Bound the prepared geometry cache. · tools.rs:2578

crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2578
Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Bound the prepared geometry cache.

When many multipart polygons are candidates, dissolved can retain an owned union for each one. The worker scratch limit does not account for this cache. The cache and parallel worker allocations can exhaust memory even when Split produces little output.

Use a retained-byte limit or a bounded fallback for preparation.

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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs at line 2578:
Bound the geometry cache built from `whole` and `located` so retained owned unions do not grow without limit alongside parallel worker allocations; enforce a retained-byte limit or use a bounded preparation fallback, preserving the existing behavior when the limit is not reached.

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- Line 2578: Bound the geometry cache built from `whole` and `located` so
retained owned unions do not grow without limit alongside parallel worker
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