[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Split shader_time entries into separate cachelines.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Wed Mar 13 10:45:44 PDT 2013


This avoids some snooping overhead between EUs processing separate shaders
(so VS versus FS).

Improves performance of a minecraft trace with shader_time by 28.9% +/-
18.3% (n=7), and performance of my old GLSL demo by 93.7% +/- 0.8% (n=4).

v2: Add a define for the stride with a comment explaining its units and
    why.
---
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h |    8 ++++++++
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp    |    2 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c |    5 +++--
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp  |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
index c34d6b1..d042dd6 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.h
@@ -571,6 +571,14 @@ struct brw_vs_prog_data {
 #define SURF_INDEX_SOL_BINDING(t)    ((t))
 #define BRW_MAX_GS_SURFACES          SURF_INDEX_SOL_BINDING(BRW_MAX_SOL_BINDINGS)
 
+/**
+ * Stride in bytes between shader_time entries.
+ *
+ * We separate entries by a cacheline to reduce traffic between EUs writing to
+ * different entries.
+ */
+#define SHADER_TIME_STRIDE 64
+
 enum brw_cache_id {
    BRW_BLEND_STATE,
    BRW_DEPTH_STENCIL_STATE,
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
index 8ce3954..8476bb5 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ fs_visitor::emit_shader_time_write(enum shader_time_shader_type type,
 
    fs_reg offset_mrf = fs_reg(MRF, base_mrf);
    offset_mrf.type = BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD;
-   emit(MOV(offset_mrf, fs_reg(shader_time_index * 4)));
+   emit(MOV(offset_mrf, fs_reg(shader_time_index * SHADER_TIME_STRIDE)));
 
    fs_reg time_mrf = fs_reg(MRF, base_mrf + 1);
    time_mrf.type = BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD;
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c
index 75eb6bc..62954d3 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ brw_init_shader_time(struct brw_context *brw)
 
    const int max_entries = 4096;
    brw->shader_time.bo = drm_intel_bo_alloc(intel->bufmgr, "shader time",
-                                            max_entries * 4, 4096);
+                                            max_entries * SHADER_TIME_STRIDE,
+                                            4096);
    brw->shader_time.programs = rzalloc_array(brw, struct gl_shader_program *,
                                              max_entries);
    brw->shader_time.types = rzalloc_array(brw, enum shader_time_shader_type,
@@ -409,7 +410,7 @@ brw_collect_shader_time(struct brw_context *brw)
    uint32_t *times = brw->shader_time.bo->virtual;
 
    for (int i = 0; i < brw->shader_time.num_entries; i++) {
-      brw->shader_time.cumulative[i] += times[i];
+      brw->shader_time.cumulative[i] += times[i * SHADER_TIME_STRIDE / 4];
    }
 
    /* Zero the BO out to clear it out for our next collection.
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp
index f319f32..d759710 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ vec4_visitor::emit_shader_time_write(enum shader_time_shader_type type,
 
    dst_reg offset_mrf = dst_reg(MRF, base_mrf);
    offset_mrf.type = BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD;
-   emit(MOV(offset_mrf, src_reg(shader_time_index * 4)));
+   emit(MOV(offset_mrf, src_reg(shader_time_index * SHADER_TIME_STRIDE)));
 
    dst_reg time_mrf = dst_reg(MRF, base_mrf + 1);
    time_mrf.type = BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD;
-- 
1.7.10.4



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