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Kenneth Graunke authored
Using the push model for inputs is much more efficient than pulling inputs - the hardware can simply copy a large chunk into URB registers at thread creation time, rather than having the thread send messages to request data from the L3 cache. Unfortunately, it's possible to have more TES inputs than fit in registers, so we have to fall back to the pull model in some cases. However, it turns out that most tessellation evaluation shaders are fairly simple, and don't use many inputs. An arbitrary cut-off of 32 vec4 slots (16 registers) is more than sufficient to ensure that 100% of TES inputs are pushed for Shadow of Mordor, Unigine Heaven, GPUTest/TessMark, and SynMark. Note that unlike most SIMD8 stages, this actually reads packed vec4 data, since that is what our vec4 TCS programs write. Improves performance in GPUTest's tessmark_x64 microbenchmark by 93.4426% +/- 5.35541% (n = 25) on my Lenovo X250 at 1024x768. Improves performance in Synmark's Gl40TerrainFlyTess microbenchmark by 22.74% +/- 0.309394% (n = 5). Improves performance in Shadow of Mordor at low settings with tessellation enabled at 1280x720 by 2.12197% +/- 0.478553% (n = 4). shader-db statistics for files containing tessellation shaders: total instructions in shared programs: 184358 -> 181181 (-1.72%) instructions in affected programs: 27971 -> 24794 (-11.36%) helped: 226 Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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