[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i915/aa: fixing anti-aliasing bug for thinnest width lines

Mon Oct 19 09:03:44 PDT 2015

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:03:34PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:19:09PM +0000, Predut, Marius wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä [mailto:ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 1:53 PM
> > > To: Predut, Marius
> > > Cc: mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i915/aa: fixing anti-aliasing bug for thinnest
> > > width lines
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:55:24PM +0300, Marius Predut wrote:
> > > > On PNV platform, for 1 pixel line thickness or less, the general
> > > > anti-aliasing algorithm gives up, and a garbage line is generated.
> > > > Setting a Line Width of 0.0 specifies the rasterization of the
> > > > "thinnest" (one-pixel-wide), non-antialiased lines.
> > > > Lines rendered with zero Line Width are rasterized using Grid
> > > > Intersection Quantization rules as specified by
> > > > 2.8.4.1 Zero-Width (Cosmetic) Line Rasterization from volume 1f of the
> > > > GEN3 docs.
> > > > The patch was tested on Intel Atom CPU N455.
> > > >
> > > > This patch follow the same rules as patches fixing the
> > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28832
> > > > bug.
> > > >
> > > > v1: Eduardo Lima Mitev:  Wrong indentation inside the if clause.
> > > > v2: Ian Romanick: comments fix.
> > > >
> > > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90367
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marius Predut <marius.predut at intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_state.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_state.c
> > > > b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_state.c
> > > > index 4c83073..897eb59 100644
> > > > --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_state.c
> > > > +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_state.c
> > > > @@ -599,6 +599,21 @@ i915LineWidth(struct gl_context * ctx, GLfloat
> > > > widthf)
> > > >
> > > >     width = (int) (widthf * 2);
> > > >     width = CLAMP(width, 1, 0xf);
> > > > +
> > > > +   if (ctx->Line.Width < 1.5 || widthf < 1.5) {
> > > > +     /* For 1 pixel line thickness or less, the general
> > > > +      * anti-aliasing algorithm gives up, and a garbage line is
> > > > +      * generated.  Setting a Line Width of 0.0 specifies the
> > > > +      * rasterization of the "thinnest" (one-pixel-wide),
> > > > +      * non-antialiased lines.
> > > > +      *
> > > > +      * Lines rendered with zero Line Width are rasterized using
> > > > +      * Grid Intersection Quantization rules as specified by
> > > > +      * volume 1f of the GEN3 docs,
> > > > +      * 2.8.4.1 Zero-Width (Cosmetic) Line Rasterization.
> > > > +      */
> > > > +      width = 0;
> > > > +   }
> > > 
> > > I went to do some spec reading, and while I can't confirm the AA <= 1.0
> > > problem (no mention in the spec about such things), I can see this fix alone
> > > isn't sufficient to satisfy the spec (we lack the round to nearest integer for
> > > non-aa for instance).
> > 
> > Ville ,Thanks for review!
> > On this seem not too much docs, here can use experiments or docs for next GEN+.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think what we'd want is a small helper. i965 has one, although that one
> > > looks quite messy. I think this is how I'd write the helper for
> > > i915:
> > > 
> > > unsigned intel_line_width(ctx)
> > > {
> > > 	float line_width = ctx->Line.Width;
> > > 
> > > 	if (ctx->Line.SmoothFlag)
> > > 		line_width = CLAMP(line_width, MinAA, MaxAA);
> > > 	else
> > > 		line_width = CLAMP(roundf(line_width), Min, Max);
> > > 
> > > 	/*
> > > 	 * blah
> > > 	 */
> > > 	if (line_width < 1.5f)
> > > 		line_width = 0.0f
> > > 
> > > 	return U_FIXED(line_width, 1);
> > > }
> > > 
> > > and then use it for both gen2 and gen3 state setup.
> > 
> > Do you used this and it works for you? (I mean if you did a test on your PNV platform)
> 
> Didn't do any actual testing yet. I've been meaning to, but just been
> too busy with other stuff. I can try to test on pnv today, and maybe on
> 830 and 85x on the weekend. Hmm, I wonder if the test even works on
> gl1?

Finally got around to trying your patch it on pnv. Sadly it still
fails, although it does seem a bit happier about the results.

old:
$ DISPLAY=:0 ./bin/line-aa-width -auto
Line from 0,2-30,3 had bad thickness (min < 0.25):
min coverage: 0.062745
avg coverage: 0.555354
max coverage: 1.000000
Line from 30,3-60,6 had bad thickness (min < 0.25):
min coverage: 0.125490
avg coverage: 0.552941
max coverage: 1.000000
Line from 60,6-90,12 had bad thickness (avg / min > 2.0):
min coverage: 0.250980
avg coverage: 0.596229
max coverage: 1.000000
Line from 90,12-120,20 had bad thickness (avg / min > 2.0):
min coverage: 0.313726
avg coverage: 0.637104
max coverage: 1.000000
PIGLIT: {"result": "fail" }

new:
$ DISPLAY=:0 ./bin/line-aa-width -auto 
Line from 180,41-210,54 had bad thickness (min < 0.25):
min coverage: 0.000000
avg coverage: 0.961539
max coverage: 1.000000
PIGLIT: {"result": "fail" }

> 
> > I have some comments on the Bugzilla related to SmoothFlag flag.(on 2015-06-04).
> > On my tests seems the flag is set only if call glLineWidth (lineWidth), lineWidth != 1.
> > 
> > > 
> > > The clamp part could even ve moved to some central place so that all drivers
> > > could share it, or I suppose we could stash the appropriately rounded and
> > > clamped line width into the context as ctx->Line._Width.
> > > 
> > > Oh and BTW, the gen4/5 line width handling in i965 looks busted too (only
> > > gen6+ got fixed).
> > 
> > First I intend only to fix de bug , then add extra fixes like CLAMP.
> > CLAMP was not done before and it can be subject on next patch series.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > >     lis4 |= width << S4_LINE_WIDTH_SHIFT;
> > > >
> > > >     if (lis4 != i915->state.Ctx[I915_CTXREG_LIS4]) {
> > > > --
> > > > 1.9.1
> > > >
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> > > 
> > > --
> > > Ville Syrjälä
> > > Intel OTC
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel OTC

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC