On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Axel Davy <axel.d...@ens.fr> wrote:
>> On 08/02/2016 00:21, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Axel Davy <axel.d...@ens.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> SQRT is not supported everywhere, so replace
>>>> it by RSQ + RCP
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Axel Davy <axel.d...@ens.fr>
>>>> ---
>>>>   src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/nine_ff.c | 3 ++-
>>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/nine_ff.c
>>>> b/src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/nine_ff.c
>>>> index a5466a7..894fc63 100644
>>>> --- a/src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/nine_ff.c
>>>> +++ b/src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/nine_ff.c
>>>> @@ -563,7 +563,8 @@ nine_ff_build_vs(struct NineDevice9 *device, struct
>>>> vs_build_ctx *vs)
>>>>           struct ureg_src cPsz2 = ureg_DECL_constant(ureg, 27);
>>>>
>>>>           ureg_DP3(ureg, tmp_x, ureg_src(r[1]), ureg_src(r[1]));
>>>> -        ureg_SQRT(ureg, tmp_y, _X(tmp));
>>>> +        ureg_RSQ(ureg, tmp_y, _X(tmp));
>>>> +        ureg_RCP(ureg, tmp_y, _Y(tmp));
>>>
>>> I'd recommend doing
>>>
>>> ureg_MUL(ureg, tmp_y, _Y(tmp), _X(tmp))
>>>
>>> instead. That should be (a) more numerically stable (rcp doesn't have
>>> great precision), and (b) not blow up for 0.
>>
>> Ok for the precision, but I'm not sure for 0
>>
>> With the mul version, with 0, it ends up computing inf * 0 = NaN,
>> whereas with the rcp version, it does 1/inf == 0 (as far as I know),
>> which is the expected result.
>
> Hmmm... not sure what RSQ(0) returns actually. I assumed it was NaN.
> What you really want is a "flush nan to 0" option on the mul like nvc0
> has, but there's no way to express that in TGSI.
>
> Perhaps you can keep the SQRT if PIPE_CAP_TGSI_SQRT is exposed, and
> otherwise do the MUL or the RCP. FWIW this is what glsl_to_tgsi does:
>
>          emit_scalar(ir, TGSI_OPCODE_RSQ, result_dst, op[0]);
>          emit_asm(ir, TGSI_OPCODE_MUL, result_dst, result_src, op[0]);
>          /* For incoming channels <= 0, set the result to 0. */
>          op[0].negate = ~op[0].negate;
>          emit_asm(ir, TGSI_OPCODE_CMP, result_dst,
>               op[0], result_src, st_src_reg_for_float(0.0));

FWIW, "NaN to 0" is always enabled on radeon. We also enable it for compute.

Marek
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