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Ian Romanick d2e3707ecc brw: Eliminate redundant fills and spills
When the register allocator decides to spill a value, all writes to that
value are spilled and all reads are filled. In regions where there is
not high register pressure, a spill of a value may be followed by a fill
of that same file while the spilled register is still live. This
optimization pass finds these cases, and it converts the fill to a move
from the still-live register.

The restriction that the spill and the fill must have matching NoMask
really hampers this optimization. With the restriction removed, the pass
was more than 2x helpful.

v2: Require force_writemask_all to be the same for the spill and the fill.

v3: Use FIXED_GRF for register overlap tests. Since this is after
register allocation, the VGRF values will not tell the whole truth.

v4: Use brw_transform_inst. Suggested by Caio. The allows two of the
loops to be merged. Add brw_scratch_inst::offset instead of storing it
as a source. Suggested by Lionel.

v5: Add no-fill-opt debug option to disable optimizations. Suggested by
Lionel.

v6: Move a calculation outside a loop. Suggested by Lionel.

v7: Check that spill ranges overlap instead of just checking initial
offset. Zero shaders in fossil-db were affected, but some CTS with
spill_fs were fixed (e.g.,
dEQP-VK.subgroups.arithmetic.compute.subgroupmin_uint64_t_requiredsubgroupsize).
Suggested by Lionel.

v8: Add DEBUG_NO_FILL_OPT to debug_bits in
brw_get_compiler_config_value(). Noticed by Lionel.

shader-db:

Lunar Lake
total instructions in shared programs: 17249907 -> 17249903 (<.01%)
instructions in affected programs: 10684 -> 10680 (-0.04%)
helped: 2 / HURT: 0

total cycles in shared programs: 893092630 -> 893092398 (<.01%)
cycles in affected programs: 237320 -> 237088 (-0.10%)
helped: 2 / HURT: 0

total fills in shared programs: 1903 -> 1901 (-0.11%)
fills in affected programs: 110 -> 108 (-1.82%)
helped: 2 / HURT: 0

Meteor Lake and DG2 had similar results. (Meteor Lake shown)
total instructions in shared programs: 19968898 -> 19968778 (<.01%)
instructions in affected programs: 33020 -> 32900 (-0.36%)
helped: 10 / HURT: 0

total cycles in shared programs: 885157211 -> 884925015 (-0.03%)
cycles in affected programs: 39944544 -> 39712348 (-0.58%)
helped: 8 / HURT: 2

total fills in shared programs: 4454 -> 4394 (-1.35%)
fills in affected programs: 2678 -> 2618 (-2.24%)
helped: 10 / HURT: 0

fossil-db:

Lunar Lake
Totals:
Instrs: 930445228 -> 929949528 (-0.05%)
Cycle count: 105195579417 -> 105126671329 (-0.07%); split: -0.07%, +0.00%
Spill count: 3495279 -> 3494400 (-0.03%)
Fill count: 6767063 -> 6520785 (-3.64%)

Totals from 43844 (2.17% of 2018922) affected shaders:
Instrs: 212614840 -> 212119140 (-0.23%)
Cycle count: 19151130510 -> 19082222422 (-0.36%); split: -0.39%, +0.03%
Spill count: 2831100 -> 2830221 (-0.03%)
Fill count: 6128316 -> 5882038 (-4.02%)

Meteor Lake and DG2 had similar results. (Meteor Lake shown)
Totals:
Instrs: 1001375893 -> 1001113407 (-0.03%)
Cycle count: 92746180943 -> 92679877883 (-0.07%); split: -0.08%, +0.01%
Spill count: 3729157 -> 3728585 (-0.02%)
Fill count: 6697296 -> 6566874 (-1.95%)

Totals from 35062 (1.53% of 2284674) affected shaders:
Instrs: 179819265 -> 179556779 (-0.15%)
Cycle count: 18111194752 -> 18044891692 (-0.37%); split: -0.41%, +0.04%
Spill count: 2453752 -> 2453180 (-0.02%)
Fill count: 5279259 -> 5148837 (-2.47%)

Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/37827>
2025-11-26 17:20:13 +00:00
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VERSION Version: Bump to 26.0 2025-10-16 03:31:58 +00:00

`Mesa <https://mesa3d.org>`_ - The 3D Graphics Library
======================================================


Source
------

This repository lives at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa.
Other repositories are likely forks, and code found there is not supported.


Build & install
---------------

You can find more information in our documentation (`docs/install.rst
<https://docs.mesa3d.org/install.html>`_), but the recommended way is to use
Meson (`docs/meson.rst <https://docs.mesa3d.org/meson.html>`_):

.. code-block:: sh

  $ meson setup build
  $ ninja -C build/
  $ sudo ninja -C build/ install

Support
-------

Many Mesa devs hang on IRC; if you're not sure which channel is
appropriate, you should ask your question on `OFTC's #dri-devel
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necessary.
Remember that not everyone is in the same timezone as you, so it might
take a while before someone qualified sees your question.
To figure out who you're talking to, or which nick to ping for your
question, check out `Who's Who on IRC
<https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/WhosWho/>`_.

The next best option is to ask your question in an email to the
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Bug reports
-----------

If you think something isn't working properly, please file a bug report
(`docs/bugs.rst <https://docs.mesa3d.org/bugs.html>`_).


Contributing
------------

Contributions are welcome, and step-by-step instructions can be found in our
documentation (`docs/submittingpatches.rst
<https://docs.mesa3d.org/submittingpatches.html>`_).

Note that Mesa uses gitlab for patches submission, review and discussions.