Pitoiset Prepping Bindless Textures For Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Pitoiset: Bindless Textures For Mesa/RadeonSI

Samuel Pitoiset, one of the developers on Valve's open-source Linux driver team focused on better Radeon support, has posted a set of 26 patches for changes needed to support ARB_bindless_texture and is fully implemented for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Bindless-Texture-Sam

[hakzsam]

The title is "ARB_bindless_texture: round one (GLSL)" which means this first series *only* implements ARB_bindless_texture for the GLSL compiler. Other parts will come later once this one is merged. Thanks!

[Nille_kungen]

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[geearf]

The title is "ARB_bindless_texture: round one (GLSL)" which means this first series *only* implements ARB_bindless_texture for the GLSL compiler. Other parts will come later once this one is merged. Thanks!

Out of curiosity, what is the performance improvement in those feral games you tested?

[funfunctor]

Out of curiosity, what is the performance improvement in those feral games you tested?

It is not implemented yet, only the GLSL shader compiler component - according to hakzsam though I haven't looked at the series myself yet.

[geearf]

It is not implemented yet, only the GLSL shader compiler component - according to hakzsam though I haven't looked at the series myself yet.

I don't think that's true

Because ARB_bindless_texture [1] is a massive feature which requires a bunch of changes in Mesa, I splitted the whole series in order to help reviewers. The first one adds all GLSL bits to the compiler.

I took it as: it's all implemented in some ways, but they're going to focus on one part at a time to review/improve it and then commit, before moving on the next part.

[jf33]

This is excellent news. Thank you, Samuel!

[hakzsam]

Out of curiosity, what is the performance improvement in those feral games you tested?

I can't say for now, it's implemented but the RadeonSI part needs performance improvements.

[geearf]

I can't say for now, it's implemented but the RadeonSI part needs performance improvements.

Looking forward to all this, that may finally lend to me playing DE:MD

[zboszor]

The GLSL parts are now committed.