[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v3 38/43] i965/fs: Optimize 16-bit SSBO stores by packing two into a 32-bit reg

Jose Maria Casanova Crespo jmcasanova at igalia.com
Thu Oct 12 18:38:27 UTC 2017


From: Eduardo Lima Mitev <elima at igalia.com>

Currently, we use byte-scattered write messages for storing 16-bit
into an SSBO. This is because untyped surface messages have a fixed
32-bit size.

This patch optimizes these 16-bit writes by combining 2 values (e.g,
two consecutive components) into a 32-bit register, packing the two
16-bit words.

16-bit single component values will continue to use byte-scattered
write messages.

This optimization reduces the number of SEND messages used for storing
16-bit values potentially by 2 or 4, which cuts down execution time
significantly because byte-scattered writes are an expensive
operation.

v2: Removed use of stride = 2 on sources (Jason Ekstrand)
    Rework optimization using shuffle 16 write and enable writes
    of 16bit vec4 with only one message of 32-bits. (Chema Casanova)

Signed-off-by: Jose Maria Casanova Crespo <jmcasanova at igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Lima <elima at igalia.com>
---
 src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
index 2d0b3e139e..c07b3e4d8d 100644
--- a/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
+++ b/src/intel/compiler/brw_fs_nir.cpp
@@ -4218,6 +4218,9 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_intrinsic(const fs_builder &bld, nir_intrinsic_instr *instr
             instr->num_components);
          val_reg = tmp;
       }
+      if (bit_size == 16) {
+         val_reg=retype(val_reg, BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_HF);
+      }
 
       /* 16-bit types would use a minimum of 1 slot */
       unsigned type_slots = MAX2(type_size / 4, 1);
@@ -4231,6 +4234,9 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_intrinsic(const fs_builder &bld, nir_intrinsic_instr *instr
          unsigned first_component = ffs(writemask) - 1;
          unsigned length = ffs(~(writemask >> first_component)) - 1;
 
+         fs_reg current_val_reg =
+            offset(val_reg, bld, first_component * type_slots);
+
          /* We can't write more than 2 64-bit components at once. Limit the
           * length of the write to what we can do and let the next iteration
           * handle the rest
@@ -4238,11 +4244,40 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_intrinsic(const fs_builder &bld, nir_intrinsic_instr *instr
          if (type_size > 4) {
             length = MIN2(2, length);
          } else if (type_size == 2) {
-            /* For 16-bit types we are using byte scattered writes, that can
-             * only write one component per call. So we limit the length, and
-             * let the write happening in several iterations.
+            /* For 16-bit types we pack two consecutive values into a
+             * 32-bit word and use an untyped write message. For single values
+             * we need to use byte-scattered writes because untyped writes work
+             * on multiples of 32 bits.
+             *
+             * For example, if there is a 3-component vector we submit one
+             * untyped-write message of 32-bit (first two components), and one
+             * byte-scattered write message (the last component).
              */
-            length = 1;
+            if (length >= 2) {
+               /* pack two consecutive 16-bit words into a 32-bit register,
+                * using the same original source register.
+                */
+               length -= length % 2;
+               fs_reg tmp = bld.vgrf(BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_F, length / 2);
+               shuffle_16bit_data_for_32bit_write(bld,
+                                                  tmp,
+                                                  current_val_reg,
+                                                  length);
+               current_val_reg = tmp;
+
+            } else {
+               /* For single 16-bit values, we just limit the length to 1 and
+                * use a byte-scattered write message below.
+                */
+               length = 1;
+               fs_reg tmp = bld.vgrf(BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_F);
+               shuffle_16bit_data_for_32bit_write(bld,
+                                                  tmp,
+                                                  current_val_reg,
+                                                  length);
+               current_val_reg = tmp;
+
+            }
          }
 
          fs_reg offset_reg;
@@ -4257,24 +4292,29 @@ fs_visitor::nir_emit_intrinsic(const fs_builder &bld, nir_intrinsic_instr *instr
                     brw_imm_ud(type_size * first_component));
          }
 
-         if (type_size == 2) {
+         if (type_size == 2 && length == 1) {
             /* Untyped Surface messages have a fixed 32-bit size, so we need
              * to rely on byte scattered in order to write 16-bit elements.
              * The byte_scattered_write message needs that every written 16-bit
              * type to be aligned 32-bits (stride=2).
              */
-            fs_reg tmp = bld.vgrf(BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_F);
-            val_reg.type = BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_HF;
-            bld.MOV (subscript(tmp, BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_HF, 0),
-                     offset(val_reg, bld, first_component));
             emit_byte_scattered_write(bld, surf_index, offset_reg,
-                                      tmp,
+                                      current_val_reg,
                                       1 /* dims */, length * type_slots,
                                       BRW_PREDICATE_NONE);
          } else {
+            unsigned write_size = length * type_slots;
+
+            /* We need to half the write size of the untyped write message when
+             * submitting two packed 16-bit values, because length is 2 but the
+             * type size is 16-bit. So we are effectively writing just 32 bits
+             * (size = 1).
+             */
+            if (type_size == 2)
+               write_size /= 2;
             emit_untyped_write(bld, surf_index, offset_reg,
-                               offset(val_reg, bld, first_component * type_slots),
-                               1 /* dims */, length * type_slots,
+                               current_val_reg,
+                               1 /* dims */, write_size,
                                BRW_PREDICATE_NONE);
          }
 
-- 
2.13.6



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