[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/3] i965/gen4-5: Enable 16-wide dispatch on shaders with control flow.

[Francisco Jerez]

This was probably disabled due to a combination of several bugs in the
generator code (fixed earlier in this series) and a misunderstanding
of the hardware spec.  The documentation for most control flow
instructions mentions among other restrictions:

 "Instruction compression is not allowed."

This however doesn't have any implications on 16 wide not being
supported, because none of the control flow instructions have
multi-register operands (control flow instructions are not compressed
on more recent hardware either, except maybe SNB's IF with inline
compare).  In fact Gen4-5 had 16-wide control flow masks and stacks,
and the spec mentions in several places that control flow instructions
push and pop 16 channels worth of data -- Otherwise there doesn't seem
to be any indication that it shouldn't work.

Causes no piglit regressions, and gives the following shader-db
results on ILK:

 total instructions in shared programs: 4711384 -> 4711384 (0.00%)
 instructions in affected programs:     0 -> 0
 helped:                                0
 HURT:                                  0
 GAINED:                                1215
 LOST:                                  0
---
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp
index bd71404..5247738 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp
@@ -417,18 +417,12 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_if(nir_if *if_stmt)
 
    bld.emit(BRW_OPCODE_ENDIF);
 
-   if (!try_replace_with_sel() && devinfo->gen < 6) {
-      no16("Can't support (non-uniform) control flow on SIMD16\n");
-   }
+   try_replace_with_sel();
 }
 
 void
 fs_visitor::nir_emit_loop(nir_loop *loop)
 {
-   if (devinfo->gen < 6) {
-      no16("Can't support (non-uniform) control flow on SIMD16\n");
-   }
-
    bld.emit(BRW_OPCODE_DO);
 
    nir_emit_cf_list(&loop->body);
-- 
2.4.3