A Slew Of ACO Optimizations For The Radeon Vulkan Driver Landed In Mesa 20.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Slew Of ACO Optimizations For The Radeon Vulkan Driver Landed In Mesa 20.0

The Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end that is optionally used by the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has continued growing in popularity with Linux gamers and also has continued maturing a lot for Mesa 20.0 that is due out later this quarter...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ACO-Optimizations-For-Mesa-20

[FireBurn]

Is there a todo list for ACO? I know some shader types were missing, is it compute and tessellation? Struggling to remember

[horstderheld]

Is there a todo list for ACO? I know some shader types were missing, is it compute and tessellation? Struggling to remember

https://github.com/daniel-schuermann/mesa/issues/98

[Venemo]

Is there a todo list for ACO? I know some shader types were missing, is it compute and tessellation? Struggling to remember

The highest impact comes from pixel shaders (aka. fragment shaders), and the most common case is when there are just pixel and vertex shaders, so this case is what ACO covers currently. Geometry and tesselation shaders are missing, which means that if there is geometry or tesselation in a given pipeline, then all VS, GS and TS are going to be handled by LLVM still.

There is an open merge request for geometry shaders. The work hasn't started yet on tesselation.

[timofonic]

The highest impact comes from pixel shaders (aka. fragment shaders), and the most common case is when there are just pixel and vertex shaders, so this case is what ACO covers currently. Geometry and tesselation shaders are missing, which means that if there is geometry or tesselation in a given pipeline, then all VS, GS and TS are going to be handled by LLVM still.

There is an open merge request for geometry shaders. The work hasn't started yet on tesselation.

Are there plans to start tesselation work after geometry shaders gets merged?

here's the geometry shaders work merge request. I really hope it gets merged very soon, please.

[Venemo]

Are there plans to start tesselation work after geometry shaders gets merged?

here's the geometry shaders work merge request. I really hope it gets merged very soon, please.

Yes, but it will take time to get to everything.

[fuzz]

I wonder if this helps Elite: Dangerous with its insane shaders (something like 40MB if I recall correctly).

[smitty3268]

https://github.com/daniel-schuermann/mesa/issues/98

Apparently they hope to have GFX6 support done in the next couple weeks. Tessellation support would then be the main missing feature.

[ms178]

Apparently they hope to have GFX6 support done in the next couple weeks. Tessellation support would then be the main missing feature.

Let's hope that AMD won't drop support for GFX6 in amdgpu anytime soon or these guys would need to wire up RADV also for radeon to enjoy the benefits of ACO on that hardware.

Personally I'd like to see ACO on RadeonSI this year with all the benefits it comes with. Would that be realistic or is this too much of a task for 2020?

[pal666]

Personally I'd like to see ACO on RadeonSI this year with all the benefits it comes with. Would that be realistic or is this too much of a task for 2020?

i'd like to test it with xcom2 now