[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/78] i965: A new vec4 backend based on NIR

Eduardo Lima Mitev elima at igalia.com
Fri Jun 26 01:06:16 PDT 2015


Hello,

This series adds a new vec4 backend for i965 based on NIR. It is the result of working on
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89580.

This backend is activated if all the following conditions are met:

* INTEL_USE_NIR environment variable is set to 1 (or true)
* The stage is a GLSL vertex shader (the pass does not support geometry shaders or ARB_vertex_program yet)
* Hardware is gen6 or gen7 (specifically, we tested on SNB, IVB and HSW)

Otherwise the backend is disabled and the usual vec4_visitor is used.

The backend implementation is heavily based on vec4_visitor, and it is in fact part of that class. However we have taken care to make the new backend as much self-contained as possible, to ease an eventual removal of the vec4_visitor path. For dealing with NIR data-structures, we heavily borrowed ideas and patterns from the fs_nir backend.

At the moment, the backend shows no piglit regressions on SNB, IVB and HSW. There is one piglit test that fails in master but crashes on our backend. The test uses multiple indirect indexings on an expression with sampler arrays, which is expected to hit an assertion in NIR when --enable-debug autoconf flag is set.

The backend shows no functional dEQP regressions. On HSW and IVB, however, there are some particularly heavy tests (~80) that fail at link time due to register spilling, which should be fixed once optimization work on the backend is done.

People interested in trying the backend can use this git tree (and remember to have INTEL_USE_NIR=1):

$ git clone -b nir-vec4-v1 https://github.com/Igalia/mesa.git

The structure of the patch set is:

The first patch (0001) adds the main structure of the backend, with placeholders for each main functionality.
The second patch (0002) adds logic to select between the current vec4_visitor pass, and the new NIR->vec4 pass.
The rest of the patches incrementally fill placeholders with atomic functionality. In some cases, the division might seem arbitrary (i.e, nir_emit_texture(), which is basically one method), but we decided to favor having more atomic patches to facilitate review, and maybe squash the patches just before merging.

cheers,
Eduardo

Alejandro PiƱeiro (12):
  i965/vec4: Overload make_reg_for_system_value() to allow reuse in
    NIR->vec4 pass
  i965/nir/vec4: Add setup for system values
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement intrinsics that load system values
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement atomic counter intrinsics (read, inc and dec)
  i965/nir: Disable alu_to_scalar pass on non-scalar shaders
  i965/nir/vec4: Add skeleton implementation of nir_emit_texture()
  i965/vec4: Add a new dst_reg constructor accepting a brw_reg_type
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement loading of nir_tex_src_comparitor
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement loading of nir_tex_src_coord
  i965/nir/vec4: Setup LOD source register
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_tex and nir_texop_txl texture ops
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_txf texture op

Antia Puentes (33):
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement loading values from an UBO
  i965/nir/vec4: Prepare source and destination registers for ALU
    operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement single-element "mov" operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Lower "vecN" instructions and mark them unreachable
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement int<->float format conversion ops
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement the addition operation
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement multiplication
  i965/vec4: Return the last emitted instruction in emit_math()
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement more math operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement carry/borrow for addition/subtraction
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement float-related functions
  i965/vec4: Return the emitted instruction in emit_minmax()
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement min/max operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Derivatives are not allowed in VS
  i965/nir: Add utility method for comparisons
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement non-vector comparison ops
  i965/nir/vec4: Add swizzle utility method for vector ops
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement equality ops on vectors
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement non-equality ops on vectors
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement logical operators
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement "bool<->int,float" format conversion
  i965/nir/vec4: "noise" ops should already be lowered
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement pack/unpack operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement bit operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement the "sign" operation
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement "shift" operations
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement floating-point fused multiply-add
  i965/vec4: Return the emitted instruction in emit_lrp()
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement linear interpolation
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement conditional select
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement the dot product operation
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement vector "any" operation
  i965/nir/vec4: Mark as unreachable ops that should be already lowered

Eduardo Lima Mitev (26):
  i965/nir/vec4: Add implementation placeholders for a new NIR->vec4
    pass
  i965/nir/vec4: Select between new nir_vec4 or current vec4_visitor
    code-paths
  i965/vec4: Move type_size() method to brw_vec4_visitor class
  i965/nir/vec4: Add setup of input variables in NIR->vec4 pass
  i965/nir/vec4: Add setup of output variables in NIR->vec4 pass
  i965/nir/vec4: Add shader function implementation
  i965/nir: Move brw_type_for_nir_type() to brw_nir to allow reuse
  i965/vec4: Add auxiliary func to build a writemask from a component
    size
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement loop statements (nir_cf_node_loop)
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement load_input intrinsic
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement store_output intrinsic
  i965: Take is_scalar_shader_stage() method out to allow reuse
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_emit_jump
  i965/nir: Add new utility method brw_glsl_base_type_for_nir_type()
  i965/vec4: Move is_high_sample() method to vec4_visitor class
  i965/nir/vec4: Add utility method shader_opcode_for_nir_opcode()
  i965/nir/vec4: Add nir_swizzle_result() method to vec4_visitor
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_tex_src_ddx and nir_tex_src_ddy tex
    sources
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_tex_src_offset tex source
  i965/vec4: Change vec4_visitor::emit_mcs_fetch() method to allow reuse
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_tex_src_sampler_offset tex source
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_tex_src_ms_index tex source
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_txs and nir_texop_query_levels
    texture ops
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_txf_ms texture op
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_txd texture op
  i965/vec4: Change vec4_visitor::gather_channel() method to allow reuse

Iago Toral Quiroga (4):
  i965/nir/vec4: Add setup of uniform variables
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement conditional statements (nir_cf_node_if)
  nir/nir_lower_io: Add vec4 support
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement load_uniform intrinsic

Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez (3):
  i965/nir/vec4: Add nir_get_dst() and nir_get_src() methods
  i965/nir/vec4: Implement nir_texop_tg4 texture op
  nir: Fix output swizzle in get_mul_for_src

 src/glsl/nir/nir.h                                |   18 +-
 src/glsl/nir/nir_lower_io.c                       |   87 +-
 src/glsl/nir/nir_opt_peephole_ffma.c              |    5 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/Makefile.sources        |    1 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_nir.cpp          |   34 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_ir_vec4.h           |    2 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_nir.c               |   78 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_nir.h               |    5 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c           |    5 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_reg.h               |    9 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_shader.cpp          |   36 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_shader.h            |   13 +
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp            |   49 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.h              |   65 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_gs_visitor.cpp |    7 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_gs_visitor.h   |    3 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_nir.cpp        | 1710 +++++++++++++++++++++
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_visitor.cpp    |   65 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_vs_visitor.cpp |    5 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vs.h                |    3 +-
 20 files changed, 2063 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_nir.cpp

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2.1.4



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