Mesa (master): ir_to_mesa: Try to avoid emitting a MOV_SAT to saturate an expression tree.

Eric Anholt anholt at kemper.freedesktop.org
Fri Aug 5 17:10:29 UTC 2011


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 62722d90af9d43d889af33b080a682f2004e049c
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=62722d90af9d43d889af33b080a682f2004e049c

Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Date:   Fri Jul 22 13:54:15 2011 -0700

ir_to_mesa: Try to avoid emitting a MOV_SAT to saturate an expression tree.

Fixes a regression in codegen quality for ff_fragment_shader
conversion to GLSL -- glean texCombine produces 7.5% fewer Mesa IR
instructions.

---

 src/mesa/program/ir_to_mesa.cpp |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mesa/program/ir_to_mesa.cpp b/src/mesa/program/ir_to_mesa.cpp
index debadb9..9b615b6 100644
--- a/src/mesa/program/ir_to_mesa.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/program/ir_to_mesa.cpp
@@ -915,10 +915,30 @@ ir_to_mesa_visitor::try_emit_sat(ir_expression *ir)
    sat_src->accept(this);
    src_reg src = this->result;
 
-   this->result = get_temp(ir->type);
-   ir_to_mesa_instruction *inst;
-   inst = emit(ir, OPCODE_MOV, dst_reg(this->result), src);
-   inst->saturate = true;
+   /* If we generated an expression instruction into a temporary in
+    * processing the saturate's operand, apply the saturate to that
+    * instruction.  Otherwise, generate a MOV to do the saturate.
+    *
+    * Note that we have to be careful to only do this optimization if
+    * the instruction in question was what generated src->result.  For
+    * example, ir_dereference_array might generate a MUL instruction
+    * to create the reladdr, and return us a src reg using that
+    * reladdr.  That MUL result is not the value we're trying to
+    * saturate.
+    */
+   ir_expression *sat_src_expr = sat_src->as_expression();
+   ir_to_mesa_instruction *new_inst;
+   new_inst = (ir_to_mesa_instruction *)this->instructions.get_tail();
+   if (sat_src_expr && (sat_src_expr->operation == ir_binop_mul ||
+			sat_src_expr->operation == ir_binop_add ||
+			sat_src_expr->operation == ir_binop_dot)) {
+      new_inst->saturate = true;
+   } else {
+      this->result = get_temp(ir->type);
+      ir_to_mesa_instruction *inst;
+      inst = emit(ir, OPCODE_MOV, dst_reg(this->result), src);
+      inst->saturate = true;
+   }
 
    return true;
 }




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