[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Some register allocation improvements

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> The following 5 patches contain a few register allocation cleanups and
> performance improvements.  Chris Wilson noticed that setting up register
> sets on i965 calls reralloc an absurd number of times.  I did a little
> hacking and found out that the initial size for the collision lists is way
> too low.  This series also contains a patch to avoid setting up registers
> more times than needed on platforms where RA is the same for SIMD8 vs
> SIMD16.
>
> The whole series seems to cut about 4 minutes off a piglit run on BYT.  It
> usually takes around 31 minutes and this time it ran in 27.
>
> Jason Ekstrand (5):
>   ra: Refactor ra_set_finalize
>   ra: Delete the conflict lists in ra_set_finalize
>   ra: Allocate bigger initial conflict lists
>   i965/fs: Use dispatch_width instead of reg_width in alloc_reg_sets

The first four are

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>

>   i965/fs: Don't do redundant RA setup on IVB+

I'll take your word that the register sets are identical between
SIMD8/16 on IVB+ and give you an

Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>