We have a pass to lower global registers to locals and many drivers
dutifully call it. However, no one ever creates a global register ever
so it's all dead code. It's time we bury it.
Acked-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Oftentimes various nir shaders after lowering will be the same, or
almost the same. For example, this can happen when the same shader is
linked with different shaders to form different pipelines and
cross-stage optimizations don't kick in to change it. We want to avoid
running the backend twice on these shaders. We were already doing this
with radeonsi, but we were storing a few extra pieces of information
that made this much less effective compared to TGSI. The worse offender
by far was the program name, which caused most of the cache misses. This
pass strips out these pieces of information, controlled by the NIR_STRIP
debug env variable.
Reviewed-by: Timothy Arceri <tarceri@itsqueeze.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
