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authorEric Anholt <[email protected]>2012-10-30 11:09:59 -0700
committerEric Anholt <[email protected]>2012-11-08 14:50:32 -0800
commit177c82555b24a80c15c34315ff17437cc39d1ba5 (patch)
tree39ecf2ef08bbe0725b9a7089a58f81c80f82bcbf /common.py
parent9785ae0973cc206afc36dbc7d5b9553f92d06b47 (diff)
i965/fs: Add support for global copy propagation.
It is common for complicated shaders, particularly code-generated ones, to have a big array of uniforms or attributes, and a prologue in the shader that dereferences from the big array to more informatively-named local variables. Then there will be some small control flow operation (like a ? : statement), and then use of those informatively-named variables. We were emitting extra MOVs in these cases, because copy propagation couldn't reach across control flow. Instead, implement dataflow analysis on the output of the first copy propagation pass and re-run it to propagate those extra MOVs out. On one future Steam release, reduces VS+FS instruction count from 42837 to 41437. No statistically significant performance difference (n=48), though, at least at the low resolution I'm running it at. shader-db results: total instructions in shared programs: 722170 -> 702545 (-2.72%) instructions in affected programs: 260618 -> 240993 (-7.53%) Some shaders do get hurt by up to 2 instructions, because a choice to copy propagate instead of coalesce or something like that results in a dead write sticking around. Given that we already have instances of those instructions in the affected programs (particularly unigine), we should just improve dead code elimination to fix the problem.
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