[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH V3] glsl: fix atomic buffer index for bindings other than 0

[Emil Velikov]

On 29 July 2015 at 13:46, Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 09:57 +0200, Iago Toral wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 18:35 +1000, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>> > Since commit c0cd5b var->data.binding was being used as a replacement
>> > for atomic buffer index, but they don't have to be the same value they
>> > just happen to end up the same when binding is 0.
>> >
>> > Now we store atomic buffer index in the unused var->data.index
>> > to avoid the extra memory of putting back the atmoic buffer index field.
>>
>> Could this be a bit too restrictive? var->data.index has only a single
>> bit of storage, so this would limit the number of buffers we can index
>> to 2.
>
> Your right I wasn't paying enough attention, the nir struct doesn't place the
> same limits on index (although maybe it should) and I didn't notice it in the
> glsl ir.
>
> I have a new solution on the way as part on V3 of my AoA work, however its not
> really suitable for stable.
>
> If we want this fix in stable maybe putting back the atomic_index struct
> member is the best solution after all.
>
I guess we can/should drop this from the queue, or is it something
still worthy for stable ?
If so, can anyone let me know of the requirements (commit name and/or
sha should be great).

Thanks,
Emil