[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: compute DDX in a subspan based only on top row

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue Oct 1 10:38:15 PDT 2013


On 09/30/2013 10:54 PM, Chia-I Wu wrote:
> From: Chia-I Wu <olv at lunarg.com>

I agree with both of Ken's comments.  With those fixed, this patch is

Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>

> Consider only the top-left and top-right pixels to approximate DDX in a 2x2
> subspan, unless the application requests a more accurate approximation via
> GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER_DERIVATIVE_HINT or this optimization is disabled from the
> new driconf option disable_derivative_optimization.
> 
> This results in a less accurate approximation.  However, it improves the
> performance of Xonotic with Ultra settings by 24.3879% +/- 0.832202% (at 95.0%
> confidence) on Haswell.  No noticeable image quality difference observed.
> 
> The improvement comes from faster sample_d.  It seems, on Haswell, some
> optimizations are introduced to allow faster sample_d when all pixels in a
> subspan have the same derivative.  I considered SAMPLE_STATE too, which allows
> one to control the quality of sample_d on Haswell.  But it gave much worse
> image quality without giving better performance comparing to this change.
> 
> No piglit quick.tests regression on Haswell, except with in-parameter-struct
> and normal-parameter-struct tests which appear to be noises.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chia-I Wu <olv at lunarg.com>
> ---
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c        |  2 ++
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h        |  1 +
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp | 33 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c             | 11 +++++++++
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h             |  1 +
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c       |  4 ++++
>  6 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
> index 5f58a29..18b8e57 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
> @@ -478,6 +478,8 @@ brwCreateContext(int api,
>     brw_draw_init( brw );
>  
>     brw->precompile = driQueryOptionb(&brw->optionCache, "shader_precompile");
> +   brw->disable_derivative_optimization =
> +      driQueryOptionb(&brw->optionCache, "disable_derivative_optimization");
>  
>     ctx->Const.ContextFlags = 0;
>     if ((flags & __DRI_CTX_FLAG_FORWARD_COMPATIBLE) != 0)
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
> index 0f88bad..0ec1218 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
> @@ -1005,6 +1005,7 @@ struct brw_context
>     bool always_flush_cache;
>     bool disable_throttling;
>     bool precompile;
> +   bool disable_derivative_optimization;
>  
>     driOptionCache optionCache;
>     /** @} */
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp
> index 7ce42c4..9eb5e17 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp
> @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ fs_generator::generate_tex(fs_inst *inst, struct brw_reg dst, struct brw_reg src
>   *
>   * arg0: ss0.tl ss0.tr ss0.bl ss0.br ss1.tl ss1.tr ss1.bl ss1.br
>   *
> - * and we're trying to produce:
> + * Ideally, we want to produce:
>   *
>   *           DDX                     DDY
>   * dst: (ss0.tr - ss0.tl)     (ss0.tl - ss0.bl)
> @@ -556,24 +556,41 @@ fs_generator::generate_tex(fs_inst *inst, struct brw_reg dst, struct brw_reg src
>   *
>   * For DDX, it ends up being easy: width = 2, horiz=0 gets us the same result
>   * for each pair, and vertstride = 2 jumps us 2 elements after processing a
> - * pair. But for DDY, it's harder, as we want to produce the pairs swizzled
> - * between each other.  We could probably do it like ddx and swizzle the right
> - * order later, but bail for now and just produce
> + * pair.  But the ideal approximation may impose a huge performance cost on
> + * sample_d.  On at least Haswell, sample_d instruction does some
> + * optimizations if the same LOD is used for all pixels in the subspan.
> + *
> + * For DDY, it's harder, as we want to produce the pairs swizzled between each
> + * other.  We could probably do it like ddx and swizzle the right order later,
> + * but bail for now and just produce
>   * ((ss0.tl - ss0.bl)x4 (ss1.tl - ss1.bl)x4)
>   */
>  void
>  fs_generator::generate_ddx(fs_inst *inst, struct brw_reg dst, struct brw_reg src)
>  {
> +   unsigned vstride, width;
> +
> +   if (c->key.high_quality_derivatives) {
> +      /* produce accurate derivatives */
> +      vstride = BRW_VERTICAL_STRIDE_2;
> +      width = BRW_WIDTH_2;
> +   }
> +   else {
> +      /* replicate the derivative at the top-left pixel to other pixels */
> +      vstride = BRW_VERTICAL_STRIDE_4;
> +      width = BRW_WIDTH_4;
> +   }
> +
>     struct brw_reg src0 = brw_reg(src.file, src.nr, 1,
>  				 BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_F,
> -				 BRW_VERTICAL_STRIDE_2,
> -				 BRW_WIDTH_2,
> +				 vstride,
> +				 width,
>  				 BRW_HORIZONTAL_STRIDE_0,
>  				 BRW_SWIZZLE_XYZW, WRITEMASK_XYZW);
>     struct brw_reg src1 = brw_reg(src.file, src.nr, 0,
>  				 BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_F,
> -				 BRW_VERTICAL_STRIDE_2,
> -				 BRW_WIDTH_2,
> +				 vstride,
> +				 width,
>  				 BRW_HORIZONTAL_STRIDE_0,
>  				 BRW_SWIZZLE_XYZW, WRITEMASK_XYZW);
>     brw_ADD(p, dst, src0, negate(src1));
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c
> index 3d7ca2a..5158bcc 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c
> @@ -416,6 +416,16 @@ static void brw_wm_populate_key( struct brw_context *brw,
>  
>     key->line_aa = line_aa;
>  
> +   /* _NEW_HINT */
> +   if (brw->disable_derivative_optimization) {
> +      key->high_quality_derivatives =
> +         ctx->Hint.FragmentShaderDerivative != GL_FASTEST;
> +   }
> +   else {
> +      key->high_quality_derivatives =
> +         ctx->Hint.FragmentShaderDerivative == GL_NICEST;
> +   }
> +
>     if (brw->gen < 6)
>        key->stats_wm = brw->stats_wm;
>  
> @@ -503,6 +513,7 @@ const struct brw_tracked_state brw_wm_prog = {
>  		_NEW_STENCIL |
>  		_NEW_POLYGON |
>  		_NEW_LINE |
> +		_NEW_HINT |
>  		_NEW_LIGHT |
>  		_NEW_FRAG_CLAMP |
>  		_NEW_BUFFERS |
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h
> index f7a2c5f..aa786de 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h
> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct brw_wm_prog_key {
>     GLuint render_to_fbo:1;
>     GLuint clamp_fragment_color:1;
>     GLuint line_aa:2;
> +   GLuint high_quality_derivatives:1;
>  
>     GLushort drawable_height;
>     GLbitfield64 input_slots_valid;
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c
> index de80a00..cddc8e8 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ PUBLIC const char __driConfigOptions[] =
>  	 DRI_CONF_DESC(en, "Enable Hierarchical Z on gen6+")
>        DRI_CONF_OPT_END
>  
> +      DRI_CONF_OPT_BEGIN_B(disable_derivative_optimization, "false")
> +	 DRI_CONF_DESC(en, "Derivatives with finer granularity by default")
> +      DRI_CONF_OPT_END
> +
>     DRI_CONF_SECTION_END
>     DRI_CONF_SECTION_QUALITY
>        DRI_CONF_FORCE_S3TC_ENABLE("false")
> 



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