Shader programs are cached per stage (FS, VS, GS) using the corresponding shader source identifier and compile time choices as key. However, one not only stores the program binary but a pair consisting of program binary and program data. The latter represents the store of constants (such as uniforms) used by the program.
However, when programs are searched in the cache for reloading only the program key representing the binary is considered (see for example, brw_upload_wm_prog() and brw_search_cache()). Hence, when programs are re-loaded from cache the first program binary, program data pair is extracted without considering if the program data matches the currently in use uniform storage as well. My reasoning Why this actually works is because the key contains the identifier of the corresponding gl_program that represents the source code for the shader program. Hence, two programs having identical source code still have unique keys. And therefore brw_try_upload_using_copy() never encounters a case where a matching binary is found but the program data doesn't match. My ultimate goal is to stop storing pointers to the individual components of a uniform but to store only a pointer to the "struct gl_uniform_storage" instead, and allow gen6_upload_push_constants() to iterate over individual components and array elements. This is needed to be able to convert 32-bits floats to fp16 - otherwise there is only pointer to 32-bits without knowing its type (int, float, etc) let alone its target precision. No regression in jenkins. However, we talked about this with Ken and this doesn't really tell much as piglit doesn't really re-use shader sources during one execution. Signed-off-by: Topi Pohjolainen <topi.pohjolai...@intel.com> CC: Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org> CC: Tapani P\344lli <tapani.pa...@intel.com> --- src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c index e5c0d3c..7f5fde8 100644 --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_program.c @@ -576,12 +576,6 @@ brw_stage_prog_data_compare(const struct brw_stage_prog_data *a, if (memcmp(a, b, offsetof(struct brw_stage_prog_data, param))) return false; - if (memcmp(a->param, b->param, a->nr_params * sizeof(void *))) - return false; - - if (memcmp(a->pull_param, b->pull_param, a->nr_pull_params * sizeof(void *))) - return false; - return true; } -- 1.9.3 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev