[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2 00/15] Make LOAD_PAYLOAD sane again

[Jason Ekstrand]

This is a v2 of the series that I sent out a month or two ago to fix up the
LOAD_PAYLOAD instruction in the i965 FS backend compiler.  This new version
incorporates comments from a variety of people.

The last patch in the series is one that I think at least 3 of us have
independantly written to enable copy-propagation from the ATTR register
file.  This helps the old fs_visitor code some but it helps NIR a *lot*.
The end result is that NIR is now on par from a shader-db perspective with
the old fs_visitor code.

Shader-db results across all but the last patch:
total instructions in shared programs: 7440514 -> 7440378 (-0.00%)
instructions in affected programs:     11954 -> 11818 (-1.14%)
helped:                                68
HURT:                                  0
GAINED:                                3
LOST:                                  0

All 68 helped shaders are in unigen heaven ultra 4xmsaa.  It appears that
it helps us to copy-propagate uses of omask.  The omask is weird because
it's a single-register header that's a 16-wide UW type.  The previous
guessing code was actually getting it wrong and copying it with an 8-wide
UD move that was not force_writemask all.  Now it is getting copied with
force_writemask_all set correctly (because it's a header source).  It seems
like copy propagation can now come through and clean it up.  (At least
that's my theory; I didn't look at it that hard.)

Francisco Jerez (1):
  i965/fs: Fix passing an immediate to half().

Jason Ekstrand (13):
  i965/fs: Make half(fs_reg, unsigned) handle register files more
    explicitly
  i965/fs_cse: Factor out code to create copy instructions
  i965: Change header_present to header_size in backend_instruction
  i965/fs_inst: Add an is_copy_payload helper
  i965/fs: Make emit_single_fb_write take an explicit exec_size
  i965/fs: Make LOAD_PAYLOAD take a header size
  i965/fs: Rework fs_visitor::LOAD_PAYLOAD
  SQUASH: i965/fs: Make destinations of load_payload have the
    appropreate width
  SQUASH: i965/fs: Rework fs_visitor::lower_load_payload
  SQUASH: i965/fs_cse: Support the new-style LOAD_PAYLOAD
  SQUASH: i965/fs_inst::is_copy_payload: Support the new-style
    LOAD_PAYLOAD
  SQUASH: i965/fs: Simplify setup_color_payload
  i965/fs_inst: Get rid of the effective_width field

Kenneth Graunke (1):
  i965/fs: Allow copy propagation on ATTR file registers.

 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_blorp_blit_eu.cpp    |   4 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp               | 270 +++++++++++----------
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h                 |   9 +-
 .../drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_copy_propagation.cpp   |  12 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_cse.cpp           | 117 ++++-----
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_generator.cpp     |  20 +-
 .../drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_register_coalesce.cpp  |  17 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs_visitor.cpp       | 237 +++++++-----------
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_ir_fs.h              |  30 ++-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_shader.h             |   4 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4.cpp             |   2 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_generator.cpp   |  10 +-
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_visitor.cpp     |  16 +-
 13 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 410 deletions(-)

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