Kenneth,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mesa-dev [mailto:mesa-dev-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf
> Of Kenneth Graunke
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 10:05 AM
> To: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Muthukumar, Aravindan <aravindan.muthuku...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965 : Performance Improvement
>
> On Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:09:09 PM PDT aravindan.muthuku...@intel.com
> wrote:
> > From: Aravindan M <aravindan.muthuku...@intel.com>
>
> The commit title should be something like, "i965: Optimize atom state flag
> checks" rather than a generic "Performance Improvement"
>
> > This patch improves CPI Rate(Cycles per Instruction) and CPU time
> > utilization for i965. The functions check_state and
> > brw_pipeline_state_finished was found poor CPU utilization from
> > performance analysis.
>
> Need actual data here, or show assembly quality improvements.
>
> > Change-Id: I17c7e719a16e222764217a0e67b4482748537b67
> > Signed-off-by: Aravindan M <aravindan.muthuku...@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Yogesh M <yogesh.mara...@intel.com>
> > Tested-by: Asish <as...@intel.com>
> > ---
> > src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_defines.h | 3 +++
> > src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_defines.h
> > b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_defines.h
> > index a4794c6..60f88ca 100644
> > --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_defines.h
> > +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_defines.h
> > @@ -1681,3 +1681,6 @@ enum brw_pixel_shader_coverage_mask_mode {
> > # define GEN8_L3CNTLREG_ALL_ALLOC_MASK INTEL_MASK(31, 25)
> >
> > #endif
> > +
> > +/* Checking the state of mesa and brw before emitting atoms */
> > +#define CHECK_BRW_STATE(a,b) ((a.mesa & b.mesa) | (a.brw & b.brw))
> > diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
> > b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
> > index 5e82c1b..434decf 100644
> > --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
> > +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
> > @@ -515,7 +515,10 @@ brw_upload_pipeline_state(struct brw_context *brw,
> > const struct brw_tracked_state *atom = &atoms[i];
> > struct brw_state_flags generated;
> >
> > - check_and_emit_atom(brw, &state, atom);
> > + /* Checking the state and emitting the atoms */
> > + if (CHECK_BRW_STATE(state, atom->dirty)) {
> > + check_and_emit_atom(brw, &state, atom);
> > + }
> >
> > accumulate_state(&examined, &atom->dirty);
> >
> > @@ -532,7 +535,10 @@ brw_upload_pipeline_state(struct brw_context *brw,
> > for (i = 0; i < num_atoms; i++) {
> > const struct brw_tracked_state *atom = &atoms[i];
> >
> > - check_and_emit_atom(brw, &state, atom);
> > + /* Checking the state and emitting the atoms */
> > + if (CHECK_BRW_STATE(state, atom->dirty)) {
> > + check_and_emit_atom(brw, &state, atom);
> > + }
>
> This doesn't make any sense...the very first thing check_and_emit_atom() does
> is call check_state(), which does the exact thing your CHECK_BRW_STATE macro
> does. So you're just needlessly checking the same thing twice.
>
Sorry Kenneth, This is incomplete patch. The original patch that I reviewed
also had
if check removed as below
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_upload.c
@@ -417,10 +417,8 @@ check_and_emit_atom(struct brw_context *brw,
struct brw_state_flags *state,
const struct brw_tracked_state *atom)
{
- if (check_state(state, &atom->dirty)) {
atom->emit(brw);
merge_ctx_state(brw, state);
- }
}
Aravindan will push another set.
> The only reason I could see this helping is if check_state() wasn't inlined,
> but a
> release build with -O2 definitely inlines both check_and_emit_atom() and
> check_state().
>
> Are you using GCC? What are your CFLAGS? -O2? I hope you're not trying to
> optimize a debug build...
>
Yes we are using O2 and its clang on android and it's not debug.
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -567,7 +573,9 @@ brw_pipeline_state_finished(struct brw_context *brw,
> > brw->state.pipelines[i].mesa |= brw->NewGLState;
> > brw->state.pipelines[i].brw |= brw->ctx.NewDriverState;
> > } else {
> > - memset(&brw->state.pipelines[i], 0, sizeof(struct
> > brw_state_flags));
> > + /* Avoiding the memset with initialization */
> > + brw->state.pipelines[i].mesa = 0;
> > + brw->state.pipelines[i].brw = 0ull;
> > }
> > }
>
> This is a separate change.
>
> I'm also not seeing why it's useful:
>
> Assembly before (GCC 7.1.1, x86_64, -O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer):
>
> 00000000003e0380 <brw_render_state_finished>:
> 3e0380: 66 0f ef c0 pxor %xmm0,%xmm0
> 3e0384: 55 push %rbp
> 3e0385: 8b 87 20 52 02 00 mov 0x25220(%rdi),%eax
> 3e038b: c7 87 20 52 02 00 00 movl $0x0,0x25220(%rdi)
> 3e0392: 00 00 00
> 3e0395: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
> 3e0398: 09 87 38 52 02 00 or %eax,0x25238(%rdi)
> 3e039e: 48 8b 87 38 4d 02 00 mov 0x24d38(%rdi),%rax
> 3e03a5: 5d pop %rbp
> 3e03a6: 48 09 87 40 52 02 00 or %rax,0x25240(%rdi)
> 3e03ad: 48 c7 87 38 4d 02 00 movq $0x0,0x24d38(%rdi)
> 3e03b4: 00 00 00 00
> 3e03b8: 0f 11 87 28 52 02 00 movups %xmm0,0x25228(%rdi)
> 3e03bf: c3 retq
>
> Assembly after:
>
> 00000000003e0380 <brw_render_state_finished>:
> 3e0380: 55 push %rbp
> 3e0381: 8b 87 20 52 02 00 mov 0x25220(%rdi),%eax
> 3e0387: c7 87 28 52 02 00 00 movl $0x0,0x25228(%rdi)
> 3e038e: 00 00 00
> 3e0391: 09 87 38 52 02 00 or %eax,0x25238(%rdi)
> 3e0397: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
> 3e039a: 48 8b 87 38 4d 02 00 mov 0x24d38(%rdi),%rax
> 3e03a1: 48 c7 87 30 52 02 00 movq $0x0,0x25230(%rdi)
> 3e03a8: 00 00 00 00
> 3e03ac: 48 09 87 40 52 02 00 or %rax,0x25240(%rdi)
> 3e03b3: c7 87 20 52 02 00 00 movl $0x0,0x25220(%rdi)
> 3e03ba: 00 00 00
> 3e03bd: 48 c7 87 38 4d 02 00 movq $0x0,0x24d38(%rdi)
> 3e03c4: 00 00 00 00
> 3e03c8: 5d pop %rbp
> 3e03c9: c3 retq
> 3e03ca: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopw 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>
> That looks like more instructions to me...
>
> Thanks for looking at ways to optimize our CPU overhead. I'm sure there are
> some improvements we can make...
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