[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 6/6] i965/fs: Use measured Gen7 instruction timings on Gen6.

[Matt Turner]

>From GLBenchmark 2.5:

x before
+ after
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   x                                   x   +                                  |
|   xx  ++                              x   +                                  |
|   xx  ++ +                           xx   ++                                 |
|x xxx x+++++          +           xxx x*x+*+++ +         x                   +|
|   |_____|____________A______A____M____M_|_______|                            |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
    x  23       8083.78       8287.83       8205.55     8162.7461     68.307951
    +  23       8107.56       8358.74       8224.33     8186.1765     71.506301
    No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
---
Not a strong preference if this goes in or not.

 .../dri/i965/brw_fs_schedule_instructions.cpp      |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_schedule_instructions.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_schedule_instructions.cpp
index f0ef470..90f1a16 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_schedule_instructions.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_schedule_instructions.cpp
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ public:
       this->parent_count = 0;
       this->unblocked_time = 0;
 
-      if (intel->gen >= 7)
+      /* We can't measure Gen6 timings directly but expect them to be much
+       * closer to Gen7 than Gen4.
+       */
+      if (intel->gen >= 6)
          set_latency_gen7(intel->is_haswell);
       else
          set_latency_gen4();
-- 
1.7.8.6