[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 01/12] i965: Change fragment input related bitfields to 64-bit.

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 03/11/2013 03:51 PM, Paul Berry wrote:
> This patch updates the bitfields brw_context::wm.input_size_masks,
> tracker::size_masks, and brw_wm_prog_key::proj_attrib_mask, all of
> which are indexed by gl_frag_attrib, from 32-bit to 64-bit.
>
> This paves the way for supporting geometry shaders, and for merging
> the gl_frag_attrib and gl_vert_result enums.  The combination of these
> two will require at least 55 bits in the bitfields.
> ---
>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h     |  2 +-
>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp        |  7 ++++---
>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vs_constval.c | 18 +++++++++---------
>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.c          |  2 +-
>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_wm.h          |  2 +-
>   5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Your patch looks good.  However, I hate this code, and so seeing your 
patch inspired me to re-measure whether the optimization is actually 
still worth doing.  Turns out, it isn't: it actually makes performance 
slightly -worse- in the game it was supposed to help.

So I've sent out a series to delete all this.  Hopefully, if Eric 
agrees, we can just throw it out and you can drop this patch.

Sorry for the trouble!

--Ken