We run this after nir_lower_vars_to_ssa so that as many load/store_var
intrinsics as possible before copy_prop_vars executes. This is because the
pass isn't particularly efficient (it does a lot of linear walks of a
linked list) so we'd like as much of the work as possible to be done before
copy_prop_vars runs.
Shader DB results on Sky Lake:
total instructions in shared programs:
12020290 ->
12013627 (-0.06%)
instructions in affected programs: 26033 -> 19370 (-25.59%)
helped: 16
HURT: 13
total cycles in shared programs:
137772848 ->
137549012 (-0.16%)
cycles in affected programs:
6955660 ->
6731824 (-3.22%)
helped: 217
HURT: 237
total loops in shared programs: 3208 -> 3208 (0.00%)
loops in affected programs: 0 -> 0
helped: 0
HURT: 0
total spills in shared programs: 4112 -> 4057 (-1.34%)
spills in affected programs: 483 -> 428 (-11.39%)
helped: 2
HURT: 0
total fills in shared programs: 5519 -> 5102 (-7.56%)
fills in affected programs: 993 -> 576 (-41.99%)
helped: 2
HURT: 0
LOST: 0
GAINED: 0
Broadwell had similar results. On older hardware, the impact isn't as
large because they don't advertise GL 4.5. Of the hurt programs, all but
one are hurt by a single instruction and the one is hurt by 3 instructions.
All of the helped programs, on the other hand, are helped by at least 3
instructions and one kerbal space program shader is helped by 44.59%.
The real star of the show, however, is the Gl43CSDof synmark2 benchmark
which has two shaders which are cut by 28% and 40% and the over-all runtime
performance of the benchmark on my Sky Lake laptop is improved by around
25-30% (it's a bit hard to be exact due to thermal throttling).
Reviewed-by: Timothy Arceri <timothy.arceri@collabora.com>