I ran the Vulkan CTS both with and without this patch in the hopes that the massive pile of redundant shaders in the CTS would be helped. It shaved 6 minutes of a 4.5 hour run. Quite possibly in the noise.
--Jason On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:08 PM Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> wrote: > This patch series adds a simple NIR shader cache that sits right after > spirv_to_nir and brw_preprocess_nir and before linking. This should help > alleviate some of the added overhead of link-time optimization since most > of the NIR-level optimization is now cached prior to linking. > > I have no numbers to back this series up; just intuition. > > Jason Ekstrand (5): > anv/pipeline: Move wpos and input attachment lowering to lower_nir > anv/pipeline: Hash shader modules and spec constants separately > compiler/types: Serialize/deserialize subpass input types correctly > anv/pipeline_cache: Add support for caching NIR > anv/pipeline: Cache the pre-lowered NIR > > src/compiler/glsl_types.cpp | 4 +- > src/intel/vulkan/anv_pipeline.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++-------- > src/intel/vulkan/anv_pipeline_cache.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h | 18 ++++ > 4 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.19.1 > >
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