Bug 77456 - i965/fs generates slow code for vector comparisons
Summary: i965/fs generates slow code for vector comparisons
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Mesa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: glsl-compiler (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Ian Romanick
QA Contact: Intel 3D Bugs Mailing List
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Blocks: i965-perf
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Reported: 2014-04-14 23:50 UTC by Matt Turner
Modified: 2019-09-18 19:45 UTC (History)
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t.shader_test (349 bytes, text/plain)
2014-04-14 23:50 UTC, Matt Turner
Details

Description Matt Turner 2014-04-14 23:50:16 UTC
Created attachment 97371 [details]
t.shader_test

The fragment shader runs in scalar mode, so to do vec4 comparisons we generate multiple compares and join them together using and or ors, depending on the comparison.

INTEL_DEBUG=fs,no16 bin/shader_runner t.shader_test -auto

generates:

      cmp.e.f0(8)     g3<1>D          g2.3<0,1,0>F    g2.7<0,1,0>F
      cmp.e.f0(8)     g4<1>D          g2.2<0,1,0>F    g2.6<0,1,0>F
      cmp.e.f0(8)     g5<1>D          g2.1<0,1,0>F    g2.5<0,1,0>F
      cmp.e.f0(8)     g6<1>D          g2<0,1,0>F      g2.4<0,1,0>F
      and(8)          g7<1>D          g5<8,8,1>D      g6<8,8,1>D
      and(8)          g8<1>D          g4<8,8,1>D      g7<8,8,1>D
      and(8)          g9<1>D          g3<8,8,1>D      g8<8,8,1>D
      and.ne.f0(8)    null            g9<8,8,1>D      1D        
...
(+f0) sel ...

We could have just predicated all but the first cmp instruction and skipped the and instructions completely:

      cmp.e.f0(8)     g3<1>D          g2.3<0,1,0>F    g2.7<0,1,0>F
(+f0) cmp.e.f0(8)     g4<1>D          g2.2<0,1,0>F    g2.6<0,1,0>F
(+f0) cmp.e.f0(8)     g5<1>D          g2.1<0,1,0>F    g2.5<0,1,0>F
(+f0) cmp.e.f0(8)     g6<1>D          g2<0,1,0>F      g2.4<0,1,0>F
...
(+f0) sel ...

I think a similar thing can be done for !=, where the join operation is or.
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