[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/3] i965: Drop "Vector Mask Enable" bit from 3DSTATE_GS on Gen8+.

[Kenneth Graunke]

The documentation makes it pretty clear that we shouldn't use this:

   "Under normal conditions SW shall specify DMask, as the GS stage
    will provide a Dispatch Mask appropriate to SIMD4x2 or SIMD8 thread
    execution (as a function of dispatch mode).  E.g., for SIMD4x2
    execution, the GS stage will generate a Dispatch Mask that is equal
    to what the EU would use as the Vector Mask.  For SIMD8 execution
    there is no known usage model for use of Vector Mask (as there is
    for PS shaders)."

I also managed to find descriptions of DMask and VMask, in the "State
Register" (sr0.2/3) field descriptions:

   "Dispatch Mask (DMask).  This 32-bit field specifies which channels
    are active at Dispatch time."

   "Vector Mask (VMask).  This 32-bit field contains, for each 4-bit
    group, the OR of the corresponding 4-bit group in the dispatch
    mask."

SIMD4x2 shaders process one or two vec4 values, with each 4-bit group
corresponding to xyzw channel enables (either all on, or all off).
Thus, DMask = VMask in SIMD4x2 mode.  But in SIMD8 mode, 4-bit groups
are meaningless, so it just messes up your values.

Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
---
 src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/gen8_gs_state.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

I'm working on SIMD8 geometry shader support.  These are a few simple patches
that are pretty straightforward and could be landed on their own.

diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/gen8_gs_state.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/gen8_gs_state.c
index 6a0e215..0763e91 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/gen8_gs_state.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/gen8_gs_state.c
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ gen8_upload_gs_state(struct brw_context *brw)
       OUT_BATCH(_3DSTATE_GS << 16 | (10 - 2));
       OUT_BATCH(stage_state->prog_offset);
       OUT_BATCH(0);
-      OUT_BATCH(GEN6_GS_VECTOR_MASK_ENABLE |
-                brw->geometry_program->VerticesIn |
+      OUT_BATCH(brw->geometry_program->VerticesIn |
                 ((ALIGN(stage_state->sampler_count, 4)/4) <<
                  GEN6_GS_SAMPLER_COUNT_SHIFT) |
                 ((prog_data->base.binding_table.size_bytes / 4) <<
-- 
2.4.1