[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/23] intel: Assorted code generation improvements.

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Monday, June 11, 2018 7:25:52 PM PDT Francisco Jerez wrote:
> This series contains a few code generation refactors and clean-ups
> that are starting to pile up in an internal branch.  By itself this
> series shouldn't cause any functional changes, but there's no reason
> why it couldn't be reviewed already which would lessen our pain
> keeping the branch up-to-date.
> 
> Patches 1-16 rework the mechanism used in most of the back-end code
> generator to construct message descriptors in-place as part of the
> immediate of either a SEND(C) instruction or some other ALU
> instruction, which won't work as soon as we introduce support for the
> SENDS instruction and has proven to be rather fragile (see
> d2eecf0b0b24d203d0f171807681dffd830d54de), among other disadvantages.
> 
> Patches 18-22 drop the hard-coded correspondence between i965 IR
> opcodes and native hardware opcodes, which can fail horribly if the
> back-end compiler ever needs to use more than one of the hardware
> instructions with the same opcode (simultaneously or not), or if the
> opcode of any instruction is reassigned.  Fixing this involves
> reworking the opcode description tables to allow efficient two-way
> look-up by either IR or hardware opcode.

Patches 1-19 are:
Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
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