[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/6] patches to increase the brw eu instruction store size dynamically

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:25:55AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Dec 2011 18:26:50 +0800, Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Actually the first 5 patches are all prepare work for patch 6.
> > 
> > I checked those patches will all intel oglc testcases, and found no regressions.
> > What's better, it fixed something.
> > 
> > 
> > Yuanhan Liu (6):
> >   i965: let all the brw_OPCODE functions return an instruction index
> >     instead
> 
> I don't like the brw_insn_of() thing for the common case of "I just
> emitted an instruction and I want to tweak one parameter."

Yeah, I somehow don't like it, either. I guess the old code doesn't
consider the case that the p->store memory would change, thus it always
reference the instruction by the pointer. Well, if p->store is
dynamically changed, we should use the instruction index instead of
pointer. Thus, I changed the prototype of brw_next_instruction() to let
it return the instruction index. While making this change, I thought
this is a little overdoing. And, yes, it turned out to be overdoing.

> As far as I
> can see, it should be possible to store the DO/WHILE/BRK/CONT
> information in struct brw_compile so that the only long-lived
> brw_instruction * pointers other than p->store go away.

I may not get your idea. But I thought: since we are going to store the
instruction index in the if_stack and loop_stack, it would be simple if
we let brw_DO to return the instruction index. Thus I made several new
patches yesterday(and already sent out). Please help to review it.


Thanks,
Yuanhan Liu