Eric Anholt
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This came from an idea by Ben Segovia. 16-wide pixel shaders are very important for latency hiding on i965, so we want to try really hard to get them. If scheduling an instruction makes some set of instructions available, those are probably the ones that make the instruction's result dead. By choosing those first, we'll have a tendency to reduce the amount of live data as opposed to creating more. Previously, we were sometimes getting this behavior out of the scheduler, which was what produced the scheduler's original performance wins on lightsmark. Unfortunately, that was mostly an accident of the lame instruction latency information that I had, which made it impossible to fix the actual scheduling for performance. Now that we've fixed the scheduling for setup for register allocation, we can safely update the latency parameters for the final schedule. In shader-db, we lose 37 16-wide shaders, but gain 90 new ones. 4 shaders that were spilling change how many registers spill, for a reduction of 70/3899 instructions. v2: Simplify the new loop. Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 23 April 2011 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run scons osmesa mesagdi to build classic mesa Windows GDI drivers; or scons libgl-gdi to build gallium based GDI driver. This will work both with MSVS or Mingw. Windows Drivers ------- ------- At this time, only the gallium GDI driver is known to work. Source code also exists in the tree for other drivers in src/mesa/drivers/windows, but the status of this code is unknown. General ------- After building, you can copy the above DLL files to a place in your PATH such as $SystemRoot/SYSTEM32. If you don't like putting things in a system directory, place them in the same directory as the executable(s). Be careful about accidentially overwriting files of the same name in the SYSTEM32 directory. The DLL files are built so that the external entry points use the stdcall calling convention. Static LIB files are not built. The LIB files that are built with are the linker import files associated with the DLL files. The si-glu sources are used to build the GLU libs. This was done mainly to get the better tessellator code. If you have a Windows-related build problem or question, please post to the mesa-dev or mesa-users list.