[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/11] ARB_shader_atomic_counter_ops for NIR and i965

[Ian Romanick]

This series (with the updates) is on my fd.o
ARB_shader_atomic_counter_ops-i965 branch.

On 07/05/2016 05:46 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> The first 7 patches in this series put GLSL-to-NIR on a small diet.  I
> looked at the giant sequense of 'if (strcmp(...) == 0) { ... } else if
> (strcmp(...) == 0) { ...' and said, "Oh hell no."  I don't think we care
> much about the performance of this code, so I opted to tune for size.
> Using an in-code radix trie gets it about as small as I think it can
> get.  The result is -784 bytes in a single function.  All 41 strings
> just disappear.
> 
> It looks like src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp could get
> similar treatment, and the savings there should be even larger.  My
> recommendation would be to copy src/compiler/glsl/nir_intrinsic_map.py
> into src/mesa/state_tracker and change it to suit the needs of that
> code.  The hard part is already done. :)
> 
> The rest of the series adds the new intrinsics to NIR and to the i965
> driver.
> 
> What we don't have is a good set of piglit tests for the new intrinsics.
> We also might not have tests for the existing flavors of the new
> intrinsics on, for example, SSBOs.  There is a test for
> atomicCounterAddARB.  I think it's going to be fairly difficult to come
> up with good tests for the other functions.  I'll have to think about it
> some more.
> 
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