[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/57] i965/ir: Switch representation of register offsets and sizes to byte units.

Tue Sep 13 06:56:19 UTC 2016

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 18:48 -0700, Francisco Jerez wrote:
> This series reworks the representation of register region offsets in
> the i965 IR to be universally byte-based instead of the rather
> awkward
> split between reg_offset and subreg_offset we have in the FS back-end
> right now, or the reg_offset field currently used in the VEC4 IR
> which
> doesn't allow better granularity than 32B.  The most immediate
> motivation is to enable sub-GRF offsets in the VEC4 back-end, which
> will be useful for various kinds of lowering and instruction
> splitting
> required for FP64 support on VEC4 platforms.
> 
> Patches 01-11 take care of scaling the regs_written and regs_read
> instruction methods on both back-ends and the reg_offset register
> field of VEC4 IR registers.  The fs_reg::reg_offset and
> ::subreg_offset fields are also unified into a single register field.
> Because this part of the series is rather bulky I've tried to keep
> the
> changes as obvious and functionally equivalent as possible at the
> cost
> of introducing not particularly clever code in some cases that could
> be simplified with some knowledge of the context.  Patches 31-46 make
> a second pass through the code touched in the first part of the
> series
> in order to get rid of an amount of cruft.
> 
> Patches 12-30 address an amount of bugs that became obvious during
> the
> conversion to byte units, some of them seem worrying enough that it
> might make sense to back-port them to stable releases.
> 
> Patches 47-57 go through the VEC4 back-end and address a number of
> issues that would arise in existing optimization passes with
> non-GRF-aligned regions, which will be useful for FP64 support.  It's
> likely not complete and the handling of sub-GRF offsets doesn't
> attempt to be nearly as clever as the FS back-end, but they should
> make a substantial improvement over the current situation.

Patches 47-57 are:
Reviewed-by: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral at igalia.com>

I think that covers the entire series.

I'll start porting the fp64 implementation to the new framework and see
how things go, thanks again for doing this Curro.

> [PATCH 01/57] i965/fs: Replace fs_reg::reg_offset with fs_reg::offset
> expressed in bytes.
> [PATCH 02/57] i965/vec4: Replace dst/src_reg::reg_offset with
> dst/src_reg::offset expressed in bytes.
> [PATCH 03/57] i965/ir: Remove backend_reg::reg_offset.
> [PATCH 04/57] i965/fs: Replace fs_reg::subreg_offset with
> fs_reg::offset expressed in bytes.
> [PATCH 05/57] i965/fs: Add wrapper functions for fs_inst::regs_read
> and ::regs_written.
> [PATCH 06/57] i965/vec4: Add wrapper functions for
> vec4_instruction::regs_read and ::regs_written.
> [PATCH 07/57] i965/fs: Replace fs_inst::regs_written with
> ::size_written field in bytes.
> [PATCH 08/57] i965/vec4: Replace vec4_instruction::regs_written with
> ::size_written field in bytes.
> [PATCH 09/57] i965/ir: Drop backend_instruction::regs_written field.
> [PATCH 10/57] i965/fs: Replace fs_inst::regs_read with ::size_read
> using byte units.
> [PATCH 11/57] i965/vec4: Replace vec4_instruction::regs_read with
> ::size_read using byte units.
> [PATCH 12/57] i965/fs: Return more accurate read size from
> fs_inst::size_read for IMM and UNIFORM files.
> [PATCH 13/57] i965/fs: Return more accurate read size for LINTERP
> from fs_inst::size_read.
> [PATCH 14/57] i965/fs: Handle arbitrary offsets in
> brw_reg_from_fs_reg for MRF/VGRF registers.
> [PATCH 15/57] i965/fs: Handle fixed HW GRF subnr in reg_offset().
> [PATCH 16/57] i965/fs: Take into account trailing padding in
> regs_written() and regs_read().
> [PATCH 17/57] i965/fs: Take into account misalignment in
> regs_written() and regs_read().
> [PATCH 18/57] i965/vec4: Take into account misalignment in
> regs_written() and regs_read().
> [PATCH 19/57] i965/fs: Don't consider LOAD_PAYLOAD with sub-GRF
> offset to behave like a raw copy.
> [PATCH 20/57] i965/fs: Don't consider LOAD_PAYLOAD with stride > 1
> source to behave like a raw copy.
> [PATCH 21/57] i965/fs: Compare full register offsets in cmod
> propagation pass.
> [PATCH 22/57] i965/fs: Fix can_propagate_from() source/destination
> overlap check.
> [PATCH 23/57] i965/fs: Fix LOAD_PAYLOAD handling in register coalesce
> is_nop_mov().
> [PATCH 24/57] i965/fs: Drop fs_inst::overwrites_reg() in favor of
> regions_overlap().
> [PATCH 25/57] i965/fs: Stop using fs_reg::in_range() in favor of
> regions_overlap().
> [PATCH 26/57] i965/vec4: Port regions_overlap() to the vec4 IR.
> [PATCH 27/57] i965/vec4: Drop backend_reg::in_range() in favor of
> regions_overlap().
> [PATCH 28/57] i965/fs: Take into account copy register offset during
> compute-to-mrf.
> [PATCH 29/57] i965/fs: Fix bogus sub-MRF offset calculation in
> compute-to-mrf.
> [PATCH 30/57] i965/fs: Switch mask_relative_to() used in compute-to-
> mrf to byte units.
> [PATCH 31/57] i965/fs: Fix signedness of the return value of
> fs_inst::size_read().
> [PATCH 32/57] i965/fs: Simplify byte_offset().
> [PATCH 33/57] i965/fs: Simplify get_fpu_lowered_simd_width() by using
> inequalities instead of rounding.
> [PATCH 34/57] i965/fs: Simplify and fix buggy stride/offset
> calculations using subscript().
> [PATCH 35/57] i965/fs: Simplify result_live calculation in
> dead_code_eliminate().
> [PATCH 36/57] i965/fs: Simplify a bunch of fs_inst::size_written
> calculations by using component_size().
> [PATCH 37/57] i965/fs: Simplify copy propagation LOAD_PAYLOAD ACP
> setup.
> [PATCH 38/57] i965/fs: Change region_contained_in() to use byte
> units.
> [PATCH 39/57] i965/fs: Move region_contained_in to the IR header and
> fix for non-VGRF files.
> [PATCH 40/57] i965/fs: Use region_contained_in() in compute-to-mrf
> coalescing pass.
> [PATCH 41/57] i965/fs: Get rid of fs_inst::set_smear().
> [PATCH 42/57] i965/fs: Misc simplification.
> [PATCH 43/57] i965/fs: Print fs_reg::offset field consistently for
> all register files.
> [PATCH 44/57] i965/vec4: Print src/dst_reg::offset field consistently
> for all register files.
> [PATCH 45/57] i965/ir: Don't print ARF subnr values twice.
> [PATCH 46/57] i965/ir: Update several stale comments.
> [PATCH 47/57] i965/vec4: Simplify src/dst_reg to brw_reg conversion
> by using byte_offset().
> [PATCH 48/57] i965/vec4: Change opt_vector_float to keep track of the
> last offset seen in bytes.
> [PATCH 49/57] i965/vec4: Check that the write offsets match when
> setting dependency controls.
> [PATCH 50/57] i965/vec4: Compare full register offsets in
> opt_register_coalesce nop move check.
> [PATCH 51/57] i965/vec4: Don't coalesce registers with overlapping
> writes not matching the MOV source.
> [PATCH 52/57] i965/vec4: Assign correct destination offset to
> rewritten instruction in register coalesce.
> [PATCH 53/57] i965/vec4: Compare full register offsets in cmod
> propagation.
> [PATCH 54/57] i965/vec4: Fix copy propagation for non-register-
> aligned regions.
> [PATCH 55/57] i965/vec4: Don't spill non-GRF-aligned register
> regions.
> [PATCH 56/57] i965/vec4: Assert that ATTR regions are register-
> aligned.
> [PATCH 57/57] i965/vec4: Assert that pull constant load offsets are
> 16B-aligned.
> 