[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 09/16] i965/fs: Calculate interference better in register_coalesce.

Jordan Justen jljusten at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 23:29:31 PST 2014


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Previously we simply considered two registers whose live ranges
> overlapped to interfere. Cases such as
>
>    set A     ------
>    ...             |
>    mov B, A  --    |
>    ...         | B | A
>    use B     --    |
>    ...             |
>    use A     ------
>
> would be considered to interfere, even though B is an unmodified copy of
> A whose live range fit wholly inside that of A.
>
> If no writes to A or B occur between the mov B, A and the use of B then
> we can safely coalesce them.
>
> Instead of removing MOV instructions, we make them NOPs and remove them
> at once after the main pass is finished in order to avoid recomputing
> live intervals (which are needed to perform the previous step).
>
> total instructions in shared programs: 1543768 -> 1513077 (-1.99%)
> instructions in affected programs:     951563 -> 920872 (-3.23%)
> GAINED:                                46
> LOST:                                  22
> ---
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> index e4ac0a5..ad56b87 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> @@ -2273,7 +2273,7 @@ fs_visitor::register_coalesce()
>     int last_use[MAX_SAMPLER_MESSAGE_SIZE];
>     int next_ip = 0;
>
> -   foreach_list_safe(node, &this->instructions) {
> +   foreach_list(node, &this->instructions) {
>        fs_inst *inst = (fs_inst *)node;
>
>        int ip = next_ip;
> @@ -2299,8 +2299,39 @@ fs_visitor::register_coalesce()
>        int var_to = live_intervals->var_from_reg(&inst->dst);
>
>        if (live_intervals->vars_interfere(var_from, var_to) &&
> -          !inst->dst.equals(inst->src[0]))
> -         continue;
> +          !inst->dst.equals(inst->src[0])) {
> +
> +         if (live_intervals->end[var_to] > live_intervals->end[var_from])
> +            continue;
> +
> +         bool overwritten = false;
> +         int scan_ip = -1;
> +
> +         foreach_list(n, &this->instructions) {
> +           fs_inst *scan_inst = (fs_inst *)n;

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Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>

> +            scan_ip++;
> +
> +            if (scan_inst->is_control_flow()) {
> +               overwritten = true;
> +               break;
> +            }
> +
> +            if (scan_ip <= live_intervals->start[var_to])
> +               continue;
> +
> +            if (scan_ip > live_intervals->end[var_to])
> +               break;
> +
> +            if (scan_inst->dst.equals(inst->dst) ||
> +                scan_inst->dst.equals(inst->src[0])) {
> +               overwritten = true;
> +               break;
> +            }
> +         }
> +
> +         if (overwritten)
> +            continue;
> +      }
>
>        if (reg_from != inst->src[0].reg) {
>           reg_from = inst->src[0].reg;
> @@ -2342,9 +2373,18 @@ fs_visitor::register_coalesce()
>        if (live_channels_remaining)
>           continue;
>
> +      bool removed = false;
>        for (int i = 0; i < src_size; i++) {
> -         if (mov[i])
> -            mov[i]->remove();
> +         if (mov[i]) {
> +            removed = true;
> +
> +            mov[i]->opcode = BRW_OPCODE_NOP;
> +            mov[i]->conditional_mod = BRW_CONDITIONAL_NONE;
> +            mov[i]->dst = reg_undef;
> +            mov[i]->src[0] = reg_undef;
> +            mov[i]->src[1] = reg_undef;
> +            mov[i]->src[2] = reg_undef;
> +         }
>        }
>
>        foreach_list(node, &this->instructions) {
> @@ -2366,11 +2406,26 @@ fs_visitor::register_coalesce()
>                       scan_inst->src[j].reg_offset = reg_to_offset[i];
>                    }
>                 }
> -
> -               progress = true;
>              }
>           }
>        }
> +
> +      if (removed) {
> +         live_intervals->start[var_to] = MIN2(live_intervals->start[var_to],
> +                                              live_intervals->start[var_from]);
> +         live_intervals->end[var_to] = MAX2(live_intervals->end[var_to],
> +                                            live_intervals->end[var_from]);
> +         reg_from = -1;
> +      }
> +   }
> +
> +   foreach_list_safe(node, &this->instructions) {
> +      fs_inst *inst = (fs_inst *)node;
> +
> +      if (inst->opcode == BRW_OPCODE_NOP) {
> +         inst->remove();
> +         progress = true;
> +      }
>     }
>
>     if (progress)
> --
> 1.8.3.2
>
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