[Mesa-dev] [PATCHv2 10/23] i965/fs: Stop using the LOAD_PAYLOAD instruction in lower_simd_width.

Iago Toral itoral at igalia.com
Wed May 4 07:54:22 UTC 2016


Thanks Curro!

I have tested this with our fp64 branch in BDW and it works fine. FWIW,
I also tested it in IVB with shader.py and did not see any regressions,
so we will include it in our branch.

Iago

On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 21:26 -0700, Francisco Jerez wrote:
> Instead of using the LOAD_PAYLOAD instruction (emitted through the
> emit_transpose() helper that is no longer useful and this commit
> removes) which had to be marked force_writemask_all in some cases,
> emit a series of moves to apply proper channel enable signals to the
> destination.  Until now lower_simd_width() had mainly been used to
> lower things that invariably had a basic block-local temporary as
> destination so it didn't seem like a big deal, but I found it to be
> the reason for several Piglit regressions in my SIMD32 branch and
> Igalia discovered the same issue independently while working on FP64
> support.
> ---
> This is taken from the following WIP series:
>   https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~currojerez/mesa/log/?h=i965-late-simd-lowering
> 
> See also:
>   https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-May/115596.html
> 
>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp | 58 +++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> index 4b6aa67..34599cb 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> @@ -4625,29 +4625,6 @@ get_lowered_simd_width(const struct brw_device_info *devinfo,
>     }
>  }
>  
> -/**
> - * The \p rows array of registers represents a \p num_rows by \p num_columns
> - * matrix in row-major order, write it in column-major order into the register
> - * passed as destination.  \p stride gives the separation between matrix
> - * elements in the input in fs_builder::dispatch_width() units.
> - */
> -static void
> -emit_transpose(const fs_builder &bld,
> -               const fs_reg &dst, const fs_reg *rows,
> -               unsigned num_rows, unsigned num_columns, unsigned stride)
> -{
> -   fs_reg *const components = new fs_reg[num_rows * num_columns];
> -
> -   for (unsigned i = 0; i < num_columns; ++i) {
> -      for (unsigned j = 0; j < num_rows; ++j)
> -         components[num_rows * i + j] = offset(rows[j], bld, stride * i);
> -   }
> -
> -   bld.LOAD_PAYLOAD(dst, components, num_rows * num_columns, 0);
> -
> -   delete[] components;
> -}
> -
>  bool
>  fs_visitor::lower_simd_width()
>  {
> @@ -4698,16 +4675,19 @@ fs_visitor::lower_simd_width()
>                 if (inst->src[j].file != BAD_FILE &&
>                     !is_uniform(inst->src[j])) {
>                    /* Get the i-th copy_width-wide chunk of the source. */
> -                  const fs_reg src = horiz_offset(inst->src[j], copy_width * i);
> +                  const fs_builder cbld = lbld.group(copy_width, 0);
> +                  const fs_reg src = offset(inst->src[j], cbld, i);
>                    const unsigned src_size = inst->components_read(j);
>  
> -                  /* Use a trivial transposition to copy one every n
> -                   * copy_width-wide components of the register into a
> -                   * temporary passed as source to the lowered instruction.
> +                  /* Copy one every n copy_width-wide components of the
> +                   * register into a temporary passed as source to the lowered
> +                   * instruction.
>                     */
>                    split_inst.src[j] = lbld.vgrf(inst->src[j].type, src_size);
> -                  emit_transpose(lbld.group(copy_width, 0),
> -                                 split_inst.src[j], &src, 1, src_size, n);
> +
> +                  for (unsigned k = 0; k < src_size; ++k)
> +                     cbld.MOV(offset(split_inst.src[j], lbld, k),
> +                              offset(src, cbld, n * k));
>                 }
>              }
>  
> @@ -4726,20 +4706,18 @@ fs_visitor::lower_simd_width()
>           }
>  
>           if (inst->regs_written) {
> -            /* Distance between useful channels in the temporaries, skipping
> -             * garbage if the lowered instruction is wider than the original.
> -             */
> -            const unsigned m = lower_width / copy_width;
> +            const fs_builder lbld = ibld.group(lower_width, 0);
>  
>              /* Interleave the components of the result from the lowered
> -             * instructions.  We need to set exec_all() when copying more than
> -             * one half per component, because LOAD_PAYLOAD (in terms of which
> -             * emit_transpose is implemented) can only use the same channel
> -             * enable signals for all of its non-header sources.
> +             * instructions.
>               */
> -            emit_transpose(ibld.exec_all(inst->exec_size > copy_width)
> -                               .group(copy_width, 0),
> -                           inst->dst, dsts, n, dst_size, m);
> +            for (unsigned i = 0; i < dst_size; ++i) {
> +               for (unsigned j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
> +                  const fs_builder cbld = ibld.group(copy_width, j);
> +                  cbld.MOV(offset(inst->dst, cbld, n * i + j),
> +                           offset(dsts[j], lbld, i));
> +               }
> +            }
>           }
>  
>           inst->remove(block);




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