Mesa Zink Change Leads To 50% Reduction In Memory Utilization
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Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team recently took to looking at serializing all NIR while hunting down excessive RAM usage experience with Zink. This is along similar lines to a RADV driver change to lower system RAM use for some games that was taken care of at the end of March.
With a new merge request for Zink to serialize all NIR, Blumenkrantz sums it up as:
"this cuts driver memory utilization by over 50% in most games with no perf implications
probably fixes #8699 #8328 #6024"
It's great to see and he also published a blog post with more details of that bug hunting adventure to uncovering the previously heavy RAM use.
This change should be merged to Git soon in time for this quarter's Mesa 23.1 release.
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