[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] st/glsl_to_tgsi: drop the merge_registers() pass

Roland Scheidegger sroland at vmware.com
Tue Apr 25 02:29:44 UTC 2017


Am 24.04.2017 um 23:12 schrieb Rob Clark:
> so I guess this is likely to hurt pipe drivers that don't (yet?)
> have a real compiler backend.  (Ie. etnaviv and freedreno/a2xx.)  So
> maybe it should be optional.
I suppose softpipe, too? Though that's fine, noone cares if it gets a
bit slower. Might even be nicer for debugging purposes...

Roland



> Also I wonder about the pre-llvm radeon gen's, since sb uses the 
> actual instruction encoding for IR between tgsi->sb and backend opt 
> passes..  iirc they have had problems when the tgsi code uses too
> many registers.
> 
> BR, -R
> 
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Samuel Pitoiset 
> <samuel.pitoiset at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The main goal of this pass to merge temporary registers in order to
>> reduce the total number of registers and also to produce optimal
>> TGSI code.
>> 
>> In fact, compilers seem to be confused when temporary variables are
>> already merged, maybe because it's done too early in the process.
>> 
>> Removing the pass, reduce both the register pressure and the code 
>> size (TGSI is no longer optimized, but who cares?). shader-db
>> results with RadeonSI and Nouveau are interesting.
>> 
>> Nouveau:
>> 
>> total instructions in shared programs : 3931608 -> 3929463
>> (-0.05%) total gprs used in shared programs    : 481255 -> 479014
>> (-0.47%) total local used in shared programs   : 27481 -> 27381
>> (-0.36%) total bytes used in shared programs   : 36031256 ->
>> 36011120 (-0.06%)
>> 
>> local        gpr       inst      bytes helped          14
>> 1471        1309        1309 hurt           1          88
>> 384         384
>> 
>> RadeonSI:
>> 
>> PERCENTAGE DELTAS    Shaders     SGPRs     VGPRs SpillSGPR
>> SpillVGPR  PrivVGPR   Scratch  CodeSize  MaxWaves     Waits 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 
All affected            4906   -0.31 %   -0.40 %   -2.93 %  -20.00 %
.      -20.00 %   -0.18 %    0.19 %     .
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 
Total                  47109   -0.04 %   -0.05 %   -1.97 %   -7.14 %
.       -0.30 %   -0.03 %    0.02 %     .
>> 
>> Found by luck while fixing an issue in the TGSI dead code
>> elimination pass which affects tex instructions with bindless
>> samplers.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Pitoiset <samuel.pitoiset at gmail.com> --- 
>> src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp | 62
>> ------------------------------ 1 file changed, 62 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp
>> b/src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp index
>> de7fe7837a..d033bdcc5a 100644 ---
>> a/src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp +++
>> b/src/mesa/state_tracker/st_glsl_to_tgsi.cpp @@ -565,7 +565,6 @@
>> public: int eliminate_dead_code(void);
>> 
>> void merge_two_dsts(void); -   void merge_registers(void); void
>> renumber_registers(void);
>> 
>> void emit_block_mov(ir_assignment *ir, const struct glsl_type
>> *type, @@ -5262,66 +5261,6 @@
>> glsl_to_tgsi_visitor::merge_two_dsts(void) } }
>> 
>> -/* Merges temporary registers together where possible to reduce
>> the number of - * registers needed to run a program. - * - *
>> Produces optimal code only after copy propagation and dead code
>> elimination - * have been run. */ -void 
>> -glsl_to_tgsi_visitor::merge_registers(void) -{ -   int *last_reads
>> = rzalloc_array(mem_ctx, int, this->next_temp); -   int
>> *first_writes = rzalloc_array(mem_ctx, int, this->next_temp); -
>> struct rename_reg_pair *renames = rzalloc_array(mem_ctx, struct
>> rename_reg_pair, this->next_temp); -   int i, j; -   int
>> num_renames = 0; - -   /* Read the indices of the last read and
>> first write to each temp register -    * into an array so that we
>> don't have to traverse the instruction list as -    * much. */ -
>> for (i = 0; i < this->next_temp; i++) { -      last_reads[i] = -1; 
>> -      first_writes[i] = -1; -   } -
>> get_last_temp_read_first_temp_write(last_reads, first_writes); - -
>> /* Start looking for registers with non-overlapping usages that can
>> be -    * merged together. */ -   for (i = 0; i < this->next_temp;
>> i++) { -      /* Don't touch unused registers. */ -      if
>> (last_reads[i] < 0 || first_writes[i] < 0) continue; - -      for
>> (j = 0; j < this->next_temp; j++) { -         /* Don't touch unused
>> registers. */ -         if (last_reads[j] < 0 || first_writes[j] <
>> 0) continue; - -         /* We can merge the two registers if the
>> first write to j is after or -          * in the same instruction
>> as the last read from i.  Note that the -          * register at
>> index i will always be used earlier or at the same time -
>> * as the register at index j. */ -         if (first_writes[i] <=
>> first_writes[j] && -             last_reads[i] <= first_writes[j])
>> { -            renames[num_renames].old_reg = j; -
>> renames[num_renames].new_reg = i; -            num_renames++; - -
>> /* Update the first_writes and last_reads arrays with the new -
>> * values for the merged register index, and mark the newly unused -
>> * register index as such. */ -            assert(last_reads[j] >=
>> last_reads[i]); -            last_reads[i] = last_reads[j]; -
>> first_writes[j] = -1; -            last_reads[j] = -1; -         } 
>> -      } -   } - -   rename_temp_registers(num_renames, renames); -
>> ralloc_free(renames); -   ralloc_free(last_reads); -
>> ralloc_free(first_writes); -} - /* Reassign indices to temporary
>> registers by reusing unused indices created * by optimization
>> passes. */ void @@ -6712,7 +6651,6 @@ get_mesa_program_tgsi(struct
>> gl_context *ctx, while (v->eliminate_dead_code());
>> 
>> v->merge_two_dsts(); -   v->merge_registers(); 
>> v->renumber_registers();
>> 
>> /* Write the END instruction. */ -- 2.12.2
>> 
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