[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/6] i965: always run the post-RA scheduler

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Connor Abbott <cwabbott0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Before, we would only do scheduling after register allocation if we
>>> spilled, despite the fact that the pre-RA scheduler was only supposed to
>>> be for register pressure and set the latencies of every instruction to
>>> 1. This meant that unless we spilled, which we rarely do, then we never
>>> considered instruction latencies at all, and we usually never bothered
>>> to try and hide texture fetch latency. Although a later commit removes
>>> the setting the latency to 1 part, we still want to always run the
>>> post-RA scheduler since it's able to take the false dependencies that
>>> the register allocator creates into account, and it can be more
>>> aggressive than the pre-RA scheduler since it doesn't have to worry
>>> about register pressure at all.
>>>
>>> XXX perf data
>>
>> Test                   master      post-ra-sched     diff       %diff
>> bench_OglPSBump2       396.730     402.386           5.656      +1.400%
>> bench_OglPSBump8       244.370     247.591           3.221      +1.300%
>> bench_OglPSPhong       241.117     242.002           0.885      +0.300%
>> bench_OglPSPom         59.555      59.725            0.170      +0.200%
>> bench_OglShMapPcf      86.149      102.346           16.197     +18.800%
>> bench_OglVSTangent     388.849     395.489           6.640      +1.700%
>> bench_trex             65.471      65.862            0.390      +0.500%
>> bench_trexoff          69.562      70.150            0.588      +0.800%
>>
>> Unfortunately, neither of the unigin benchmarks (heaven or vally)
>> seemed to render correctly.  I just got white on both master and your
>> branch.  Not sure if we have a bug or if they just weren't running
>> right.  In any case, ministat didn't notice any difference in them.
>
> I believe they're called "features" :) Try with disable_blend_func_extended=true

I pulled in a more recent drirc and am re-running those two.

>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Connor Abbott <cwabbott0 at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp | 3 +--
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
>>> index b269ade..14a9fdf 100644
>>> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
>>> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
>>> @@ -4981,8 +4981,7 @@ fs_visitor::allocate_registers()
>>>     if (failed)
>>>        return;
>>>
>>> -   if (!allocated_without_spills)
>>> -      schedule_instructions(SCHEDULE_POST);
>>> +   schedule_instructions(SCHEDULE_POST);
>>>
>>>     if (last_scratch > 0)
>>>        prog_data->total_scratch = brw_get_scratch_size(last_scratch);
>>> --
>>> 2.1.0
>>>
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