[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Implement EXT_shader_samples_identical

[Chris Forbes]

It lives! Thanks for picking this up, Ian.

Had a very brief look at the series as it arrived, looks good; will try to
do a real review later today.

- Chris
On Nov 19, 2015 12:47 PM, "Ian Romanick" <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> This patch series implements a new GL extension,
> EXT_shader_samples_identical.  This extension allows shaders to
> determine when all of the samples in a particular texel are the same.
> This takes advantage of the way compressed multisample surfaces are
> stored on modern Intel and AMD hardware.  This enables optimizations in
> application multisample resolve filters, etc.
>
> I really wanted to get this in the next Mesa release.  For some reason,
> I thought the branch point was after Thanksgiving (which is next
> Thursday).  Ken reminded me yesterday that the branch point is actually
> this Friday. :( As a result, I'm sending it out today to get review as
> soon as possible.
>
> I also wanted to get as much time as possible for other drivers to get
> implementations.  I worked with Graham Sellers on this extension, and he
> assures me that the implementation on modern Radeons is trivial.  My
> expectation is that it should be about the same as the Intel
> implementation.
>
> There will be some extra TGSI bits needed, but that should also be
> trivial.  For the NIR and i965 backend bits, I mostly copied and blended
> the implementations of txf_ms and query_samples.
>
> There are currently only trivial piglit tests, but I am working on more.
> I basically hacked up tests/spec/arb_texture_multisample/texelfetch.c to
> use the extension to render different colors based on whether
> textureSamplesIdenticalEXT returned true or false.  The resulting image
> and the generated assembly look good.  My plan is to get a set of real
> tests out by midday tomorrow.
>
> As soon as we're confident that the spec is good, I'll submit it to
> Khronos for publication in the registry.  I'm still waiting on feedback
> from another closed-source driver writer.
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