On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Marek Olšák <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:37 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> >> > wrote: >> >> Unless, of course, it's controlled by the same hardware bit... Clearly, >> >> we >> >> can can give you abs on rsq without denorm flushing (easy shader hacks) >> >> but >> >> not the other way around. >> > >> > OK, so somehow I missed that earlier. However there's an interesting >> > section in the PRM: >> > >> > >> > https://01.org/sites/default/files/documentation/intel-gfx-prm-osrc-skl-vol07-3d_media_gpgpu.pdf >> > >> > on PDF page 854, "Dismissed Legacy Behaviors" which has a list of >> > suggested IEEE 754 deviations for DX9. One of them is indeed that 0 * >> > x = 0, but another is that input NaNs be propagated with certain >> > exceptions. Also they suggest that RCP(0)/RSQ(0) = fmax. Interesting. >> > >> > So at this point, the zero_wins thing is pretty much blown. i965 >> > appears to have an all-or-nothing approach, and additionally that >> > approach doesn't match up exactly to what NVIDIA does (or at least I'm >> > not aware of a clamp-everything mode). >> > >> > This will take some thought to figure out how something can be >> > specified so that a single spec works for both i965 and nv/amd. OTOH >> > we could have two different specs that just expose different things - >> > e.g. i965 could expose a MESA_shader_float_alt_mode or whatever which >> > is spec'd to do the things that the PRM says, and nv/amd have the >> > MESA_shader_float_zero_wins ext which does what we were talking about >> > earlier. >> > >> > I'm open to other suggestions too. >> >> There is also the "small" problem that it would take a non-trivial >> effort for us on the LLVM side. You guys can flip a switch. We can't. > > > Don't you have to expend that effort for ARB programs anyway? I thought > they weren't supposed to generate NaN either.
No, we don't, because st/mesa adds abs before RSQ and the driver implements POW as log+mul+exp, where mul follows the rule 0*anything=0. I don't think any other opcode follows that rule though. Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
