Bug 103939 - 4% performance drop in GLB 2.7 Egypt from "Use a 565 format for GL_RGB and GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_6_5 textures"
Summary: 4% performance drop in GLB 2.7 Egypt from "Use a 565 format for GL_RGB and GL...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Mesa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Drivers/DRI/i965 (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Intel 3D Bugs Mailing List
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Reported: 2017-11-27 15:22 UTC by Eero Tamminen
Modified: 2019-09-25 19:06 UTC (History)
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Description Eero Tamminen 2017-11-27 15:22:38 UTC 
Following commit was bisected (on SKL GT2) to be cause for a performance drop in GLB 2.7 Egypt onscreen and offscreen tests:
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commit 18bdf73556440ca2eaac2d22e1e3ebe1be7b6c1d
Author:     Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Oct 4 01:08:37 2017 -0700
Commit:     Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
CommitDate: Thu Oct 5 14:30:47 2017 -0700

    mesa: Use a 565 format for GL_RGB and GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_6_5 textures.
    
    Found while trying to optimize an application.
    
    Not observed to help performance on i965, but should at least reduce
    the memory usage of such textures a bit.
    
    Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
    Tested-by: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
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Egypt performance drop is clearly visible on following platforms:
* 4% on BSW N3050 & SKL GT2 & KBL GT2
* 2% on BXT J4205 & HSW GT2 & SKL GT4e
* 2% on BYT N2820 (only offscreen version)

(BSW & BYT have 1-channel memory, others 2-channel.)

On some other platforms the performance also increases, as was expected:
* 3% on BDW GT3
* 1% on BDW GT2 & SNB GT2 (only offscreen version)


(Sorry for filing this so late. I had been waiting to see whether blorp rework / texture RBC would affect this, but forgot it.  That didn't affect Egypt.)
Comment 1 Eero Tamminen 2019-07-12 11:45:23 UTC 
Performance is still mostly at the regressed level for offscreen Egypt.

SNB & HSW perf regressed further in mid February 2019.

For onscreen version on GEN9+ platforms, perf is nowadays much higher due to E2E RBC support.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-09-25 19:06:06 UTC 
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