[Mesa-dev] Uniform packing for radeonsi NIR

[Timothy Arceri]

Ping? Would be good to get this in, some of the patches can be painful 
to rebase.

On 14/03/18 17:01, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> I've dusted off my old uniform packing patches and made it work with the
> radeonsi NIR backend. This was much simpler than the messing around needed for
> tgsi (which I never got fully working).
> 
> One thing to note is we don't do packing from asm programs because there is
> currently no Mesa IR to NIR pass in the state tracker.
> 
> Also the last two patches need to be squashed before pushing to avoid
> regressions.
> 
> The main goal of this series is to reduce the cpu overhead cause by
> _mesa_propagate_uniforms_to_driver_storage(). The function is slow since we
> need to deal with strides etc because we are copying packed data to an
> unpacked destination. It's also copying data that we have only just copied
> to another duplicate uniform storage that gets created by the linker.
> 
> This series fixes both of these issues and also reduces the size of the
> drivers const buffer as a side effect.
> 
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