[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] radeonsi: Implement ddx/ddy on VI using ds_bpermute

[Michel Dänzer]

On 16.04.2016 11:39, Tom Stellard wrote:
> The ds_bpermute instruction allows threads to transfer data directly
> to or from the vgprs of other threads.  These instructions use the lds
> hardware to transfer data, but do not read or write lds memory.
> 
> DDX BEFORE:                        |  DDX AFTER:
>                                    |
> v_mbcnt_lo_u32_b32_e64 v2, -1, 0   |  v_mbcnt_lo_u32_b32_e64 v2, -1, 0
> v_mbcnt_hi_u32_b32_e64 v2, -1, v2  |  v_mbcnt_hi_u32_b32_e64 v2, -1, v2
> v_lshlrev_b32_e32 v4, 2, v2        |  v_and_b32_e32 v2, 0x3ffffffc, v2
> v_and_b32_e32 v2, -4, v2           |  v_lshlrev_b32_e32 v2, 2, v2
> v_lshlrev_b32_e32 v3, 2, v2        |  ds_bpermute_b32 v3, v2, v0
> s_mov_b32 m0, -1                   |  ds_bpermute_b32 v0, v2, v0 offset:4
> ds_write_b32 v4, v0                |  s_waitcnt lgkmcnt(0)
> s_waitcnt lgkmcnt(0)               |
> v_or_b32_e32 v0, 1, v2             |
> v_lshlrev_b32_e32 v0, 2, v0        |
> ds_read_b32 v1, v3                 |
> ds_read_b32 v0, v0                 |
> s_waitcnt lgkmcnt(0)               |
>                                    |
> LDS: 1 blocks                      |  LDS: 0 blocks

Nice.


Were these intrinsics already available in LLVM 3.6? If not, the old
code needs to be kept for backwards compatibility.


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