Bas Nieuwenhuizen
f91c85b29b
Using more than 1 wave per threadgroup does increase performance
generally. Not using too many patches per threadgroup also
increases performance. Both catalyst and amdgpu-pro seem to
use 40 patches as their maximum, but I haven't really seen
any performance increase from limiting the number of patches
to 40 instead of 64.
Note that the trick where we overlap the input and output LDS
does not work anymore as the insertion of the tess factors
changes the patch stride.
v2: - Add comment about LDS assumptions.
- Add constant for buffer size.
- Fix code style.
v3: - Correct limits for not splitting patches between waves.
- Set max num_patches to 40 as in the proprietary driver.
Signed-off-by: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Reviewed-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak@amd.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 http://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.