Jason Ekstrand
6132992cdb
Subgroup invocation is computed using a vector immediate and some
dispatch-aware arithmetic. Unfortunately, due to the vector arithmetic,
and the fact that it's frequently read 16-wide, it's not something that
can easily be CSEd by the back-end compiler. There are a few different
possible approaches to this problem:
1) Emit the code to calculate the subgroup invocation on-the-fly and
trust NIR to do the CSE. This is what we were doing.
2) Add a back-end instruction for the subgroup ID. This has the
advantage of helping the back-end compiler with CSE but has the
downside of very poor scheduling for the calculation because it has
to be emitted in the back-end.
3) Emit the calculation at the top of the program and re-use the
result. This gets rid of the CSE problem but comes at the cost of
an extra live register.
This commit switches us from 1) to 3). We choose to store the subgroup
invocation values as a W type to reduce the impact of the extra live
register. Trusting NIR and using 1) was fine but we're soon going to
want to use the subgroup invocation value for other things in the
back-end compiler and this makes it much easier to do without having to
worry about CSE problems.
Reviewed-by: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral@igalia.com>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 21 June 2013 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run 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. Recipe ------ Building on windows requires several open-source packages. These are steps that work as of this writing. - install python 2.7 - install scons (latest) - install mingw, flex, and bison - install pywin32 from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe - install git - download mesa from git see https://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html - run scons 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.