On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 14:22 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> This reverts commit b449366587b5f3f64c6fb45fe22c39e4bc8a4309.
>
> I removed the pass thinking that it was now not useful, but that was not
> true. I believe I ran shader-db on HSW and saw no results, but HSW does
> not use the unlit centroid workaround code and as a result does not emit
> redundant MOV_DISPATCH_TO_FLAGS instructions.
I guess this means that dead-code-elimination doesn't really do anything
about this as you initially thought, right?
Reviewed-by: Iago Toral Quiroga <ito...@igalia.com>
> On IVB, the shader-db results are:
>
> total instructions in shared programs: 6650806 -> 6646303 (-0.07%)
> instructions in affected programs: 106893 -> 102390 (-4.21%)
> helped: 793
>
> total cycles in shared programs: 56195538 -> 56103720 (-0.16%)
> cycles in affected programs: 873048 -> 781230 (-10.52%)
> helped: 553
> HURT: 209
>
> On SNB, the shader-db results are:
>
> total instructions in shared programs: 7173074 -> 7168541 (-0.06%)
> instructions in affected programs: 119757 -> 115224 (-3.79%)
> helped: 799
>
> total cycles in shared programs: 98128032 -> 98072938 (-0.06%)
> cycles in affected programs: 1437104 -> 1382010 (-3.83%)
> helped: 454
> HURT: 237
> ---
> src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp | 40
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> index aedb5a2..efabc22 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.cpp
> @@ -5114,6 +5114,44 @@ fs_visitor::calculate_register_pressure()
> }
> }
>
> +/**
> + * Look for repeated FS_OPCODE_MOV_DISPATCH_TO_FLAGS and drop the later ones.
> + *
> + * The needs_unlit_centroid_workaround ends up producing one of these per
> + * channel of centroid input, so it's good to clean them up.
> + *
> + * An assumption here is that nothing ever modifies the dispatched pixels
> + * value that FS_OPCODE_MOV_DISPATCH_TO_FLAGS reads from, but the hardware
> + * dictates that anyway.
> + */
> +bool
> +fs_visitor::opt_drop_redundant_mov_to_flags()
> +{
> + bool flag_mov_found[2] = {false};
> + bool progress = false;
> +
> + /* Instructions removed by this pass can only be added if this were true
> */
> + if (!devinfo->needs_unlit_centroid_workaround)
> + return false;
> +
> + foreach_block_and_inst_safe(block, fs_inst, inst, cfg) {
> + if (inst->is_control_flow()) {
> + memset(flag_mov_found, 0, sizeof(flag_mov_found));
> + } else if (inst->opcode == FS_OPCODE_MOV_DISPATCH_TO_FLAGS) {
> + if (!flag_mov_found[inst->flag_subreg]) {
> + flag_mov_found[inst->flag_subreg] = true;
> + } else {
> + inst->remove(block);
> + progress = true;
> + }
> + } else if (inst->writes_flag()) {
> + flag_mov_found[inst->flag_subreg] = false;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + return progress;
> +}
> +
> void
> fs_visitor::optimize()
> {
> @@ -5171,6 +5209,8 @@ fs_visitor::optimize()
> int iteration = 0;
> int pass_num = 0;
>
> + OPT(opt_drop_redundant_mov_to_flags);
> +
> OPT(lower_simd_width);
> OPT(lower_logical_sends);
>
> diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h
> b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h
> index 6afb9b6..480b9df 100644
> --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h
> +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_fs.h
> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ public:
> bool try_constant_propagate(fs_inst *inst, acp_entry *entry);
> bool opt_copy_propagate_local(void *mem_ctx, bblock_t *block,
> exec_list *acp);
> + bool opt_drop_redundant_mov_to_flags();
> bool opt_register_renaming();
> bool register_coalesce();
> bool compute_to_mrf();
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