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| author | Francisco Jerez <[email protected]> | 2017-06-15 15:23:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Francisco Jerez <[email protected]> | 2017-12-07 15:56:06 -0800 |
| commit | af2c320190f3c73180f1610c8df955a7fa2a4d09 (patch) | |
| tree | e98b17a77cf122c8cec1523be7b0b60daa1f4fc6 /src/intel/compiler/meson.build | |
| parent | c34b53f13326c89e09447d759ee188fe9c4964d8 (diff) | |
intel/fs: Implement GRF bank conflict mitigation pass.
Unnecessary GRF bank conflicts increase the issue time of ternary
instructions (the overwhelmingly most common of which is MAD) by
roughly 50%, leading to reduced ALU throughput. This pass attempts to
minimize the number of bank conflicts by rearranging the layout of the
GRF space post-register allocation. It's in general not possible to
eliminate all of them without introducing extra copies, which are
typically more expensive than the bank conflict itself.
In a shader-db run on SKL this helps roughly 46k shaders:
total conflicts in shared programs: 1008981 -> 600461 (-40.49%)
conflicts in affected programs: 816222 -> 407702 (-50.05%)
helped: 46234
HURT: 72
The running time of shader-db itself on SKL seems to be increased by
roughly 2.52%±1.13% with n=20 due to the additional work done by the
compiler back-end.
On earlier generations the pass is somewhat less effective in relative
terms because the hardware incurs a bank conflict anytime the last two
sources of the instruction are duplicate (e.g. while trying to square
a value using MAD), which is impossible to avoid without introducing
copies. E.g. for a shader-db run on SNB:
total conflicts in shared programs: 944636 -> 623185 (-34.03%)
conflicts in affected programs: 853258 -> 531807 (-37.67%)
helped: 31052
HURT: 19
And on BDW:
total conflicts in shared programs: 1418393 -> 987539 (-30.38%)
conflicts in affected programs: 1179787 -> 748933 (-36.52%)
helped: 47592
HURT: 70
On SKL GT4e this improves performance of GpuTest Volplosion by 3.64%
±0.33% with n=16.
NOTE: This patch intentionally disregards some i965 coding conventions
for the sake of reviewability. This is addressed by the next
squash patch which introduces an amount of (for the most part
boring) boilerplate that might distract reviewers from the
non-trivial algorithmic details of the pass.
The following patch is squashed in:
SQUASH: intel/fs/bank_conflicts: Roll back to the nineties.
Acked-by: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/intel/compiler/meson.build')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/intel/compiler/meson.build | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/meson.build b/src/intel/compiler/meson.build index fe0a1f6e8ac..91127bf35a9 100644 --- a/src/intel/compiler/meson.build +++ b/src/intel/compiler/meson.build @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ libintel_compiler_files = files( 'brw_eu.h', 'brw_eu_util.c', 'brw_eu_validate.c', + 'brw_fs_bank_conflicts.cpp', 'brw_fs_builder.h', 'brw_fs_cmod_propagation.cpp', 'brw_fs_combine_constants.cpp', |