dolphin/Source/Core/VideoCommon/OpcodeDecoding.cpp

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// Copyright 2013 Dolphin Emulator Project
// Licensed under GPLv2
// Refer to the license.txt file included.
//DL facts:
// Ikaruga uses (nearly) NO display lists!
// Zelda WW uses TONS of display lists
// Zelda TP uses almost 100% display lists except menus (we like this!)
// Super Mario Galaxy has nearly all geometry and more than half of the state in DLs (great!)
// Note that it IS NOT GENERALLY POSSIBLE to precompile display lists! You can compile them as they are
// while interpreting them, and hope that the vertex format doesn't change, though, if you do it right
// when they are called. The reason is that the vertex format affects the sizes of the vertices.
#include "Common/CommonTypes.h"
#include "Common/CPUDetect.h"
#include "Core/Core.h"
#include "Core/Host.h"
#include "Core/FifoPlayer/FifoRecorder.h"
#include "Core/HW/Memmap.h"
#include "VideoCommon/BPMemory.h"
#include "VideoCommon/CommandProcessor.h"
#include "VideoCommon/CPMemory.h"
#include "VideoCommon/DataReader.h"
#include "VideoCommon/Fifo.h"
#include "VideoCommon/OpcodeDecoding.h"
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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#include "VideoCommon/PixelEngine.h"
#include "VideoCommon/Statistics.h"
#include "VideoCommon/VertexLoaderManager.h"
#include "VideoCommon/VideoCommon.h"
#include "VideoCommon/VideoConfig.h"
#include "VideoCommon/XFMemory.h"
bool g_bRecordFifoData = false;
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
static u32 InterpretDisplayList(u32 address, u32 size)
{
u8* old_pVideoData = g_video_buffer_read_ptr;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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u8* startAddress;
if (g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread)
startAddress = (u8*) PopFifoAuxBuffer(size);
else
startAddress = Memory::GetPointer(address);
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
u32 cycles = 0;
// Avoid the crash if Memory::GetPointer failed ..
if (startAddress != nullptr)
{
g_video_buffer_read_ptr = startAddress;
// temporarily swap dl and non-dl (small "hack" for the stats)
Statistics::SwapDL();
u8 *end = g_video_buffer_read_ptr + size;
cycles = OpcodeDecoder_Run(end, true);
INCSTAT(stats.thisFrame.numDListsCalled);
// un-swap
Statistics::SwapDL();
}
// reset to the old pointer
g_video_buffer_read_ptr = old_pVideoData;
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
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return cycles;
}
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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static void InterpretDisplayListPreprocess(u32 address, u32 size)
{
u8* old_read_ptr = g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr;
u8* startAddress = Memory::GetPointer(address);
PushFifoAuxBuffer(startAddress, size);
if (startAddress != nullptr)
{
g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr = startAddress;
u8 *end = startAddress + size;
OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess(end, true);
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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}
g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr = old_read_ptr;
}
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
static void UnknownOpcode(u8 cmd_byte, void *buffer, bool preprocess)
{
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
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// TODO(Omega): Maybe dump FIFO to file on this error
PanicAlert(
"GFX FIFO: Unknown Opcode (0x%x @ %p, preprocessing=%s).\n"
"This means one of the following:\n"
"* The emulated GPU got desynced, disabling dual core can help\n"
"* Command stream corrupted by some spurious memory bug\n"
"* This really is an unknown opcode (unlikely)\n"
"* Some other sort of bug\n\n"
"Dolphin will now likely crash or hang. Enjoy." ,
cmd_byte,
buffer,
preprocess ? "yes" : "no");
{
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
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SCPFifoStruct &fifo = CommandProcessor::fifo;
PanicAlert(
"Illegal command %02x\n"
"CPBase: 0x%08x\n"
"CPEnd: 0x%08x\n"
"CPHiWatermark: 0x%08x\n"
"CPLoWatermark: 0x%08x\n"
"CPReadWriteDistance: 0x%08x\n"
"CPWritePointer: 0x%08x\n"
"CPReadPointer: 0x%08x\n"
"CPBreakpoint: 0x%08x\n"
"bFF_GPReadEnable: %s\n"
"bFF_BPEnable: %s\n"
"bFF_BPInt: %s\n"
"bFF_Breakpoint: %s\n"
"bFF_GPLinkEnable: %s\n"
"bFF_HiWatermarkInt: %s\n"
"bFF_LoWatermarkInt: %s\n"
,cmd_byte, fifo.CPBase, fifo.CPEnd, fifo.CPHiWatermark, fifo.CPLoWatermark, fifo.CPReadWriteDistance
,fifo.CPWritePointer, fifo.CPReadPointer, fifo.CPBreakpoint
,fifo.bFF_GPReadEnable ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_BPEnable ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_BPInt ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_Breakpoint ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_GPLinkEnable ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_HiWatermarkInt ? "true" : "false"
,fifo.bFF_LoWatermarkInt ? "true" : "false"
);
}
}
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
template <bool is_preprocess, u8** bufp>
static u32 Decode(u8* end, bool in_display_list)
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u8 *opcodeStart = *bufp;
if (*bufp == end)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u8 cmd_byte = DataRead<u8>(bufp);
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
u32 cycles;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
int refarray;
switch (cmd_byte)
{
case GX_NOP:
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
cycles = 6; // Hm, this means that we scan over nop streams pretty slowly...
break;
case GX_LOAD_CP_REG: //0x08
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (end - *bufp < 1 + 4)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
cycles = 12;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u8 sub_cmd = DataRead<u8>(bufp);
u32 value = DataRead<u32>(bufp);
LoadCPReg(sub_cmd, value, is_preprocess);
if (!is_preprocess)
INCSTAT(stats.thisFrame.numCPLoads);
}
break;
case GX_LOAD_XF_REG:
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (end - *bufp < 4)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u32 Cmd2 = DataRead<u32>(bufp);
int transfer_size = ((Cmd2 >> 16) & 15) + 1;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if ((size_t) (end - *bufp) < transfer_size * sizeof(u32))
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
cycles = 18 + 6 * transfer_size;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (!is_preprocess)
{
u32 xf_address = Cmd2 & 0xFFFF;
LoadXFReg(transfer_size, xf_address);
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
INCSTAT(stats.thisFrame.numXFLoads);
}
else
{
*bufp += transfer_size * sizeof(u32);
}
}
break;
case GX_LOAD_INDX_A: //used for position matrices
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
refarray = 0xC;
goto load_indx;
case GX_LOAD_INDX_B: //used for normal matrices
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
refarray = 0xD;
goto load_indx;
case GX_LOAD_INDX_C: //used for postmatrices
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
refarray = 0xE;
goto load_indx;
case GX_LOAD_INDX_D: //used for lights
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
refarray = 0xF;
goto load_indx;
load_indx:
if (end - *bufp < 4)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
cycles = 6;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (is_preprocess)
PreprocessIndexedXF(DataRead<u32>(bufp), refarray);
else
LoadIndexedXF(DataRead<u32>(bufp), refarray);
break;
case GX_CMD_CALL_DL:
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (end - *bufp < 8)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u32 address = DataRead<u32>(bufp);
u32 count = DataRead<u32>(bufp);
if (in_display_list)
{
cycles = 6;
WARN_LOG(VIDEO,"recursive display list detected");
}
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
else
{
if (is_preprocess)
InterpretDisplayListPreprocess(address, count);
else
cycles = 6 + InterpretDisplayList(address, count);
}
}
break;
case GX_CMD_UNKNOWN_METRICS: // zelda 4 swords calls it and checks the metrics registers after that
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
cycles = 6;
DEBUG_LOG(VIDEO, "GX 0x44: %08x", cmd_byte);
break;
case GX_CMD_INVL_VC: // Invalidate Vertex Cache
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
cycles = 6;
DEBUG_LOG(VIDEO, "Invalidate (vertex cache?)");
break;
case GX_LOAD_BP_REG: //0x61
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
// In skipped_frame case: We have to let BP writes through because they set
// tokens and stuff. TODO: Call a much simplified LoadBPReg instead.
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (end - *bufp < 4)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
cycles = 12;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u32 bp_cmd = DataRead<u32>(bufp);
if (is_preprocess)
{
LoadBPRegPreprocess(bp_cmd);
}
else
{
LoadBPReg(bp_cmd);
INCSTAT(stats.thisFrame.numBPLoads);
}
}
break;
// draw primitives
default:
if ((cmd_byte & 0xC0) == 0x80)
{
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
cycles = 1600;
// load vertices
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
if (end - *bufp < 2)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
return 0;
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
u16 num_vertices = DataRead<u16>(bufp);
if (is_preprocess)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
size_t size = num_vertices * VertexLoaderManager::GetVertexSize(cmd_byte & GX_VAT_MASK, is_preprocess);
if ((size_t) (end - *bufp) < size)
return 0;
*bufp += size;
}
else
{
if (!VertexLoaderManager::RunVertices(
cmd_byte & GX_VAT_MASK, // Vertex loader index (0 - 7)
(cmd_byte & GX_PRIMITIVE_MASK) >> GX_PRIMITIVE_SHIFT,
num_vertices,
end - *bufp,
g_bSkipCurrentFrame))
return 0;
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
}
}
else
{
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
2014-08-28 02:56:19 +00:00
UnknownOpcode(cmd_byte, opcodeStart, is_preprocess);
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
2014-09-01 05:11:32 +00:00
cycles = 1;
}
break;
}
// Display lists get added directly into the FIFO stream
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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if (!is_preprocess && g_bRecordFifoData && cmd_byte != GX_CMD_CALL_DL)
FifoRecorder::GetInstance().WriteGPCommand(opcodeStart, u32(*bufp - opcodeStart));
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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// In is_preprocess mode, we don't actually care about cycles, at least for
// now... make sure the compiler realizes that.
return is_preprocess ? 1 : cycles;
}
void OpcodeDecoder_Init()
{
g_video_buffer_read_ptr = GetVideoBufferStartPtr();
}
void OpcodeDecoder_Shutdown()
{
}
u32 OpcodeDecoder_Run(u8* end, bool in_display_list)
{
u32 totalCycles = 0;
while (true)
{
u8* old = g_video_buffer_read_ptr;
u32 cycles = Decode</*is_preprocess*/ false, &g_video_buffer_read_ptr>(end, in_display_list);
if (cycles == 0)
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
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{
g_video_buffer_read_ptr = old;
break;
Refactor opcode decoding a bit to kill FifoCommandRunnable. Separated out from my gpu-determinism branch by request. It's not a big commit; I just like to write long commit messages. The main reason to kill it is hopefully a slight performance improvement from avoiding the double switch (especially in single core mode); however, this also improves cycle calculation, as described below. - FifoCommandRunnable is removed; in its stead, Decode returns the number of cycles (which only matters for "sync" GPU mode), or 0 if there was not enough data, and is also responsible for unknown opcode alerts. Decode and DecodeSemiNop are almost identical, so the latter is replaced with a skipped_frame parameter to Decode. Doesn't mean we can't improve skipped_frame mode to do less work; if, at such a point, branching on it has too much overhead (it certainly won't now), it can always be changed to a template parameter. - FifoCommandRunnable used a fixed, large cycle count for display lists, regardless of the contents. Presumably the actual hardware's processing time is mostly the processing time of whatever commands are in the list, and with this change InterpretDisplayList can just return the list's cycle count to be added to the total. (Since the calculation for this is part of Decode, it didn't seem easy to split this change up.) To facilitate this, Decode also gains an explicit 'end' parameter in lieu of FifoCommandRunnable's call to GetVideoBufferEndPtr, which can point to there or to the end of a display list (or elsewhere in gpu-determinism, but that's another story). Also, as a small optimization, InterpretDisplayList now calls OpcodeDecoder_Run rather than having its own Decode loop, to allow Decode to be inlined (haven't checked whether this actually happens though). skipped_frame mode still does not traverse display lists and uses the old fake value of 45 cycles. degasus has suggested that this hack is not essential for performance and can be removed, but I want to separate any potential performance impact of that from this commit.
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}
totalCycles += cycles;
}
return totalCycles;
}
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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void OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess(u8 *end, bool in_display_list)
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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{
while (true)
{
u8* old = g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr;
u32 cycles = Decode</*is_preprocess*/ true, &g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr>(end, in_display_list);
Add the 'desynced GPU thread' mode. It's a relatively big commit (less big with -w), but it's hard to test any of this separately... The basic problem is that in netplay or movies, the state of the CPU must be deterministic, including when the game receives notification that the GPU has processed FIFO data. Dual core mode notifies the game whenever the GPU thread actually gets around to doing the work, so it isn't deterministic. Single core mode is because it notifies the game 'instantly' (after processing the data synchronously), but it's too slow for many systems and games. My old dc-netplay branch worked as follows: everything worked as normal except the state of the CP registers was a lie, and the CPU thread only delivered results when idle detection triggered (waiting for the GPU if they weren't ready at that point). Usually, a game is idle iff all the work for the frame has been done, except for a small amount of work depending on the GPU result, so neither the CPU or the GPU waiting on the other affected performance much. However, it's possible that the game could be waiting for some earlier interrupt, and any of several games which, for whatever reason, never went into a detectable idle (even when I tried to improve the detection) would never receive results at all. (The current method should have better compatibility, but it also has slightly higher overhead and breaks some other things, so I want to reimplement this, hopefully with less impact on the code, in the future.) With this commit, the basic idea is that the CPU thread acts as if the work has been done instantly, like single core mode, but actually hands it off asynchronously to the GPU thread (after backing up some data that the game might change in memory before it's actually done). Since the work isn't done, any feedback from the GPU to the CPU, such as real XFB/EFB copies (virtual are OK), EFB pokes, performance queries, etc. is broken; but most games work with these options disabled, and there is no need to try to detect what the CPU thread is doing. Technically: when the flag g_use_deterministic_gpu_thread (currently stuck on) is on, the CPU thread calls RunGpu like in single core mode. This function synchronously copies the data from the FIFO to the internal video buffer and updates the CP registers, interrupts, etc. However, instead of the regular ReadDataFromFifo followed by running the opcode decoder, it runs ReadDataFromFifoOnCPU -> OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess, which relatively quickly scans through the FIFO data, detects SetFinish calls etc., which are immediately fired, and saves certain associated data from memory (e.g. display lists) in AuxBuffers (a parallel stream to the main FIFO, which is a bit slow at the moment), before handing the data off to the GPU thread to actually render. That makes up the bulk of this commit. In various circumstances, including the aforementioned EFB pokes and performance queries as well as swap requests (i.e. the end of a frame - we don't want the CPU potentially pumping out frames too quickly and the GPU falling behind*), SyncGPU is called to wait for actual completion. The overhead mainly comes from OpcodeDecoder_Preprocess (which is, again, synchronous), as well as the actual copying. Currently, display lists and such are escrowed from main memory even though they usually won't change over the course of a frame, and textures are not even though they might, resulting in a small chance of graphical glitches. When the texture locking (i.e. fault on write) code lands, I can make this all correct and maybe a little faster. * This suggests an alternate determinism method of just delaying results until a short time before the end of each frame. For all I know this might mostly work - I haven't tried it - but if any significant work hinges on the competion of render to texture etc., the frame will be missed.
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if (cycles == 0)
{
g_video_buffer_pp_read_ptr = old;
break;
}
}
}