Mesa (master): radeonsi: fix the VGT performance tweak for small instances

Marek Olšák mareko at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sat Sep 10 09:55:46 UTC 2016


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: a5a2cc530c1f493557c232557ad1910e607712c2
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=a5a2cc530c1f493557c232557ad1910e607712c2

Author: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
Date:   Thu Sep  8 01:42:06 2016 +0200

radeonsi: fix the VGT performance tweak for small instances

Based on the VGT spec.

The Vulkan driver doesn't do it optimally and they plan to fix it.

Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle at amd.com>

---

 src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_state_draw.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_state_draw.c b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_state_draw.c
index d3e6e1a..e44147f 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_state_draw.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_state_draw.c
@@ -318,14 +318,15 @@ static unsigned si_get_ia_multi_vgt_param(struct si_context *sctx,
 			wd_switch_on_eop = true;
 
 		/* Performance recommendation for 4 SE Gfx7-8 parts if
-		 * instances are smaller than a primgroup. Ignore the fact
-		 * primgroup_size is a primitive count, not vertex count.
-		 * Don't do anything for indirect draws.
+		 * instances are smaller than a primgroup.
+		 * Assume indirect draws always use small instances.
+		 * This is needed for good VS wave utilization.
 		 */
 		if (sctx->b.chip_class <= VI &&
 		    sctx->b.screen->info.max_se >= 4 &&
-		    !info->indirect &&
-		    info->instance_count > 1 && info->count < primgroup_size)
+		    (info->indirect ||
+		     (info->instance_count > 1 &&
+		      si_num_prims_for_vertices(info) < primgroup_size)))
 			wd_switch_on_eop = true;
 
 		/* Required on CIK and later. */




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