[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 5/5] i965/vec4: Propagate conditional modifiers from more compares to other compares

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Wed Aug 29 18:40:30 UTC 2018


From: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>

If there is a CMP.NZ that compares a single component (via a .zzzz
swizzle, for example) with 0, it can propagate its conditional modifier
back to a previous CMP that writes only that component.  The specific
case that I saw was:

    cmp.l.f0(8)     g42<1>.xF       g61<4>.xF       (abs)g18<4>.zF
    ...
    cmp.nz.f0(8)    null<1>D        g42<4>.xD       0D

In this case we can just delete the second CMP.

No changes on Broadwell or Skylake because they do not use the vec4
backend.  Also no changes on GM45 or Iron Lake.

Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell had similar results. (Sandy Bridge shown)
total instructions in shared programs: 10427834 -> 10423577 (-0.04%)
instructions in affected programs: 226882 -> 222625 (-1.88%)
helped: 1305
HURT: 0
helped stats (abs) min: 1 max: 7 x̄: 3.26 x̃: 4
helped stats (rel) min: 0.11% max: 6.67% x̄: 1.94% x̃: 1.86%
95% mean confidence interval for instructions value: -3.37 -3.16
95% mean confidence interval for instructions %-change: -1.99% -1.89%
Instructions are helped.

total cycles in shared programs: 146154725 -> 146097503 (-0.04%)
cycles in affected programs: 2487836 -> 2430614 (-2.30%)
helped: 1098
HURT: 53
helped stats (abs) min: 2 max: 134 x̄: 52.27 x̃: 64
helped stats (rel) min: 0.12% max: 12.70% x̄: 3.46% x̃: 2.23%
HURT stats (abs)   min: 2 max: 16 x̄: 3.13 x̃: 2
HURT stats (rel)   min: 0.18% max: 0.83% x̄: 0.63% x̃: 0.71%
95% mean confidence interval for cycles value: -51.63 -47.80
95% mean confidence interval for cycles %-change: -3.44% -3.11%
Cycles are helped.

Signed-off-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>
---
 src/intel/compiler/brw_vec4_cmod_propagation.cpp | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/brw_vec4_cmod_propagation.cpp b/src/intel/compiler/brw_vec4_cmod_propagation.cpp
index a1d46dc8dca..760327d559d 100644
--- a/src/intel/compiler/brw_vec4_cmod_propagation.cpp
+++ b/src/intel/compiler/brw_vec4_cmod_propagation.cpp
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ writemasks_incompatible(const vec4_instruction *earlier,
 }
 
 static bool
-opt_cmod_propagation_local(bblock_t *block)
+opt_cmod_propagation_local(bblock_t *block, vec4_visitor *v)
 {
    bool progress = false;
    int ip = block->end_ip + 1;
@@ -146,12 +146,109 @@ opt_cmod_propagation_local(bblock_t *block)
                              scan_inst->dst, scan_inst->size_written)) {
             if ((scan_inst->predicate && scan_inst->opcode != BRW_OPCODE_SEL) ||
                 scan_inst->dst.offset != inst->src[0].offset ||
-                writemasks_incompatible(scan_inst, inst) ||
                 scan_inst->exec_size != inst->exec_size ||
                 scan_inst->group != inst->group) {
                break;
             }
 
+            /* If scan_inst is a CMP that produces a single value and inst is
+             * a CMP.NZ that consumes only that value, remove inst.
+             */
+            if (inst->conditional_mod == BRW_CONDITIONAL_NZ &&
+                (inst->src[0].type == BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_D ||
+                 inst->src[0].type == BRW_REGISTER_TYPE_UD) &&
+                (inst->opcode == BRW_OPCODE_CMP ||
+                 inst->opcode == BRW_OPCODE_MOV) &&
+                scan_inst->opcode == BRW_OPCODE_CMP &&
+                ((inst->src[0].swizzle == BRW_SWIZZLE_XXXX &&
+                  scan_inst->dst.writemask == WRITEMASK_X) ||
+                 (inst->src[0].swizzle == BRW_SWIZZLE_YYYY &&
+                  scan_inst->dst.writemask == WRITEMASK_Y) ||
+                 (inst->src[0].swizzle == BRW_SWIZZLE_ZZZZ &&
+                  scan_inst->dst.writemask == WRITEMASK_Z) ||
+                 (inst->src[0].swizzle == BRW_SWIZZLE_WWWW &&
+                  scan_inst->dst.writemask == WRITEMASK_W))) {
+               if (inst->dst.writemask != scan_inst->dst.writemask) {
+                  src_reg temp(v, glsl_type::vec4_type, 1);
+
+                  /* Given a sequence like:
+                   *
+                   *    cmp.ge.f0(8)  g21<1>.xF      g20<4>.xF      g18<4>.xF
+                   *    ...
+                   *    cmp.nz.f0(8)  null<1>D       g21<4>.xD      0D
+                   *
+                   * Replace it with something like:
+                   *
+                   *    cmp.ge.f0(8)  g22<1>F        g20<4>.xF      g18<4>.xF
+                   *    mov(8)        g21<1>.xF      g22<1>.xxxxF
+                   *
+                   * The added MOV will most likely be removed later.  In the
+                   * worst case, it should be cheaper to schedule.
+                   */
+                  temp.swizzle = inst->src[0].swizzle;
+                  temp.type = scan_inst->src[0].type;
+
+                  vec4_instruction *mov = v->MOV(scan_inst->dst, temp);
+
+                  /* Modify the source swizzles on scan_inst.  If scan_inst
+                   * was
+                   *
+                   *    cmp.ge.f0(8)  g21<1>.zF      g20<4>.wzyxF   g18<4>.yxwzF
+                   *
+                   * replace it with
+                   *
+                   *    cmp.ge.f0(8)  g21<1>.zF      g20<4>.yyyyF   g18<4>.wwwwF
+                   */
+                  unsigned src0_chan;
+                  unsigned src1_chan;
+                  switch (scan_inst->dst.writemask) {
+                  case WRITEMASK_X:
+                     src0_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[0].swizzle, 0);
+                     src1_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[1].swizzle, 0);
+                     break;
+                  case WRITEMASK_Y:
+                     src0_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[0].swizzle, 1);
+                     src1_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[1].swizzle, 1);
+                     break;
+                  case WRITEMASK_Z:
+                     src0_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[0].swizzle, 2);
+                     src1_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[1].swizzle, 2);
+                     break;
+                  case WRITEMASK_W:
+                     src0_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[0].swizzle, 3);
+                     src1_chan = BRW_GET_SWZ(scan_inst->src[1].swizzle, 3);
+                     break;
+                  default:
+                     unreachable("Impossible writemask");
+                  }
+
+                  scan_inst->src[0].swizzle = BRW_SWIZZLE4(src0_chan,
+                                                           src0_chan,
+                                                           src0_chan,
+                                                           src0_chan);
+
+                  /* There's no swizzle on immediate value sources. */
+                  if (scan_inst->src[1].file != IMM) {
+                     scan_inst->src[1].swizzle = BRW_SWIZZLE4(src1_chan,
+                                                              src1_chan,
+                                                              src1_chan,
+                                                              src1_chan);
+                  }
+
+                  scan_inst->dst = dst_reg(temp);
+                  scan_inst->dst.writemask = inst->dst.writemask;
+
+                  scan_inst->insert_after(block, mov);
+               }
+
+               inst->remove(block);
+               progress = true;
+               break;
+            }
+
+            if (writemasks_incompatible(scan_inst, inst))
+               break;
+
             /* CMP's result is the same regardless of dest type. */
             if (inst->conditional_mod == BRW_CONDITIONAL_NZ &&
                 scan_inst->opcode == BRW_OPCODE_CMP &&
@@ -256,7 +353,7 @@ vec4_visitor::opt_cmod_propagation()
    bool progress = false;
 
    foreach_block_reverse(block, cfg) {
-      progress = opt_cmod_propagation_local(block) || progress;
+      progress = opt_cmod_propagation_local(block, this) || progress;
    }
 
    if (progress)
-- 
2.14.4



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