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Ian Romanick 3ee2e84c60 nir: Rematerialize compare instructions
On some architectures, Boolean values used to control conditional
branches or condtional selection must be propagated into a flag.  This
generally means that a stored Boolean value must be compared with zero.
Rather than force the generation of extra compares with zero, re-emit
the original comparison instruction.  This can save register pressure by
not needing to store the Boolean value.

There are several possible ares for future improvement to this pass:

1. Be more conservative.  If both sources to the comparison instruction
are non-constants, it may be better for register pressure to emit the
extra compare.  The current shader-db results on Intel GPUs (next
commit) lead me to believe that this is not currently a problem.

2. Be less conservative.  Currently the pass requires that all users of
the comparison match the pattern.  The idea is that after the pass is
complete, no instruction will use the resulting Boolean value.  The only
uses will be of the flag value.  It may be beneficial to relax this
requirement in some cases.

3. Be less conservative.  Also try to rematerialize comparisons used for
discard_if intrinsics.  After changing the way the Intel compiler
generates cod e for discard_if (see MR!935), I tried implementing this
already.  The changes were pretty small.  Instructions were helped in 19
shaders, but, overall, cycles were hurt.  A commit "nir: Rematerialize
comparisons for nir_intrinsic_discard_if too" is on my fd.o cgit.

4. Copy the preceeding ALU instruction.  If the comparison is a
comparison with zero, and it is the only user of a particular ALU
instruction (e.g., (a+b) != 0.0), it may be a further improvment to also
copy the preceeding ALU instruction.  On Intel GPUs, this may enable
cmod propagation to make additional progress.

v2: Use much simpler method to get the prev_block for an if-statement.
Suggested by Tim.

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
2019-05-31 08:47:03 -07:00
.gitlab-ci gitlab-ci: add the vulkan overlay layer to the vulkan build 2019-05-08 19:51:46 +02:00
bin delete autotools .gitignore files 2019-04-29 21:17:19 +00:00
build-support configure: commit test files 2017-10-16 16:32:43 -07:00
docs swr/rast: Enable ARB_GL_texture_buffer_range 2019-05-30 15:42:15 +00:00
doxygen doxygen: Plumb through gallium/ to automated documentation 2016-05-30 17:53:45 +01:00
include ac: treat Mullins as Kabini, remove the enum 2019-05-27 15:10:51 -04:00
scons scons: fix build with llvm 9. 2019-05-24 18:28:28 +02:00
scripts get_reviewer.pl: improve portability 2019-05-03 14:32:44 +01:00
src nir: Rematerialize compare instructions 2019-05-31 08:47:03 -07:00
.dir-locals.el dir-locals.el: Adds White Space support 2016-11-14 19:17:49 +02:00
.editorconfig editorconfig: Fix meson style 2019-05-24 18:44:18 +00:00
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.gitlab-ci.yml gitlab-ci: build-test the tools as well 2019-05-17 11:21:48 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add a few more alises for myself 2019-02-13 12:03:41 -08:00
.travis.yml travis: fix syntax, and drop unused stuff 2019-05-10 17:26:53 +01:00
Android.common.mk android: fix missing backspace for line continuation 2019-03-08 21:14:24 +00:00
Android.mk mesa: android: freedreno: build libfreedreno_{drm,ir3} static libs 2019-05-06 11:29:26 +00:00
appveyor.yml appveyor: Revert commits adding Cygwin support. 2019-01-25 14:13:26 +00:00
CleanSpec.mk CleanSpec.mk: Remove HOST_OUT_release 2018-08-02 15:42:40 -06:00
common.py scons/svga: remove opt from the list of valid build types 2018-10-26 12:09:00 -06:00
meson.build meson: fix a couple typos in comments 2019-05-09 11:14:37 +01:00
meson_options.txt meson: Make shader-cache a trillean instead of boolean 2019-05-03 10:57:36 -07:00
README.rst README: Drop the badges from the readme 2019-02-07 12:46:17 -06:00
REVIEWERS docs: drop most autoconf references 2019-04-15 13:44:34 -07:00
SConstruct scons: Require python 2.7 2018-08-16 13:52:56 -07:00
VERSION Bump version for 19.1 branch 2019-05-07 16:02:34 +00:00

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