vc4: Add quick algebraic optimization for clamping of unpacked values.
authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 05:54:41 +0000 (21:54 -0800)
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:36:16 +0000 (12:36 -0800)
commit076551116ed5fc1b0991cb84e1e5453f5a2e11db
tree481a7fc2fb45dfce5c74b3a81b2b28386ff7aad4
parente3efc4b02334897e0103f8cf926f376159ca1293
vc4: Add quick algebraic optimization for clamping of unpacked values.

GL likes to saturate your incoming color, but if that color's coming from
unpacking from unorms, there's no point.  Ideally we'd have a range
propagation pass that cleans these up in NIR, but that doesn't seem to be
going to land soon.  It seems like we could do a one-off optimization in
nir_opt_algebraic, except that doesn't want to operate on expressions
involving unpack_unorm_4x8, since it's sized.

total instructions in shared programs: 87879 -> 87761 (-0.13%)
instructions in affected programs:     6044 -> 5926 (-1.95%)
total estimated cycles in shared programs: 349457 -> 349252 (-0.06%)
estimated cycles in affected programs:     6172 -> 5967 (-3.32%)

No SSPD on openarena (which had the biggest gains, in its VS/CSes), n=15.
src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_opt_algebraic.c