PM4 buffer handling made a virtual member of commandprocessor, place the implementation/declaration into reusable macro files. this is probably the biggest boost here.
Optimized SET_CONSTANT/ LOAD_CONSTANT pm4 ops based on the register range they start writing at, this was also a nice boost
Expose X64 extension flags to code outside of x64 backend, so we can detect and use things like avx512, xop, avx2, etc in normal code
Add freelists for HIR structures to try to reduce the number of last level cache misses during optimization (currently disabled... fixme later)
Analyzed PGO feedback and reordered branches, uninlined functions, moved code out into different functions based on info from it in the PM4 functions, this gave like a 2% boost at best.
Added support for the db16cyc opcode, which is used often in xb360 spinlocks. before it was just being translated to nop, now on x64 we translate it to _mm_pause but may change that in the future to reduce cpu time wasted
texture util - all our divisors were powers of 2, instead we look up a shift. this made texture scaling slightly faster, more so on intel processors which seem to be worse at int divs. GetGuestTextureLayout is now a little faster, although it is still one of the heaviest functions in the emulator when scaling is on.
xe_unlikely_mutex was not a good choice for the guest clock lock, (running theory) on intel processors another thread may take a significant time to update the clock? maybe because of the uint64 division? really not sure, but switched it to xe_mutex. This fixed audio stutter that i had introduced to 1 or 2 games, fixed performance on that n64 rare game with the monkeys.
Took another crack at DMA implementation, another failure.
Instead of passing as a parameter, keep the ringbuffer reader as the first member of commandprocessor so it can be accessed through this
Added macro for noalias
Applied noalias to Memory::LookupHeap. This reduced the size of the executable by 7 kb.
Reworked kernel shim template, this shaved like 100kb off the exe and eliminated the indirect calls from the shim to the actual implementation. We still unconditionally generate string representations of kernel calls though :(, unless it is kHighFrequency
Add nvapi extensions support, currently unused. Will use CPUVISIBLE memory at some point
Inserted prefetches in a few places based on feedback from vtune.
Add native implementation of SHA int8 if all elements are the same
Vectorized comparisons for SetViewport, SetScissorRect
Vectorized ranged comparisons for WriteRegister
Add XE_MSVC_ASSUME
Move FormatInfo::name out of the structure, instead look up the name in a different table. Debug related data and critical runtime data are best kept apart
Templated UpdateSystemConstantValues based on ROV/RTV and primitive_polygonal
Add ArchFloatMask functions, these are for storing the results of floating point comparisons without doing costly float->int pipeline transfers (vucomiss/setb)
Use floatmasks in UpdateSystemConstantValues for checking if dirty, only transfer to int at end of function.
Instead of dirty |= (x == y) in UpdateSystemConstantValues, now we do dirty_u32 |= (x^y). if any of them are not equal, dirty_u32 will be nz, else if theyre all equal it will be zero. This is more friendly to register renaming and the lack of dependencies on EFLAGS lets the compiler reorder better
Add PrefetchSamplerParameters to D3D12TextureCache
use PrefetchSamplerParameters in UpdateBindings to eliminate cache misses that vtune detected
Add PrefetchTextureBinding to D3D12TextureCache
Prefetch texture bindings to get rid of more misses vtune detected (more accesses out of order with random strides)
Rewrote DMAC, still terrible though and have disabled it for now.
Replace tiny memcmp of 6 U64 in render_target_cache with inline loop, msvc fails to make it a loop and instead does a thunk to their memcmp function, which is optimized for larger sizes
PrefetchTextureBinding in AreActiveTextureSRVKeysUpToDate
Replace memcmp calls for pipelinedescription with handwritten cmp
Directly write some registers that dont have special handling in PM4 functions
Changed EstimateMaxY to try to eliminate mispredictions that vtune was reporting, msvc ended up turning the changed code into a series of blends
in ExecutePacketType3_EVENT_WRITE_EXT, instead of writing extents to an array on the stack and then doing xe_copy_and_swap_16 of the data to its dest, pre-swap each constant and then store those. msvc manages to unroll that into wider stores
stop logging XE_SWAP every time we receive XE_SWAP, stop logging the start and end of each viz query
Prefetch watch nodes in FireWatches based on feedback from vtune
Removed dead code from texture_info.cc
NOINLINE on GpuSwap, PGO builds did it so we should too.
Remove the logger_ != nullptr check from shouldlog, it will nearly always be true except on initialization and gets checked later anyway, this shrinks the size of the generated code for some
Select specialized vastcpy for current cpu, for now only have paths for MOVDIR64B and generic avx1
Add XE_UNLIKELY/LIKELY if, they map better to the c++ unlikely/likely attributes which we will need to use soon
Finished reimplementing STVL/STVR/LVL/LVR as their own opcodes. we now generate far less code for these instructions. this also means optimization passes can be written to simplify/remove/replace these instructions in some cases. Found that a good deal of the X86 we were emitting for these instructions was dead code or redundant.
the reduction in generated HIR/x86 should help a lot with compilation times and make function precompilation more feasible as a default
Don't static assert in default prefetch impl, in c++20 the assertion will be triggered even without an instantiation
Reorder some if/else to prod msvc into ordering the branches optimally. it somewhat worked...
Added some notes about which opcodes should be removed/refactored
Dispatch in WriteRegister via vector compares for the bounds. still not very optimal, we ought to be checking whether any register in a range may be special
A lot of work on trying to optimize writeregister, moved wraparound path into a noinline function based on profiling info
Hoist the IsUcodeAnalyzed check out of AnalyzeShader, instead check it before each call. Profiler recorded many hits in the stack frame setup of the function, but none in the actual body of it, so the check is often true but the stack frame setup is run unconditionally
Pre-check whether we're about to write a single register from a ring
Replace more jump tables from draw_util/texture_info with popcnt based sparse indexing/bit tables/shuffle lookups
Place the GPU register file on its own VAD/virtual allocation, it is no longer a member of graphics system
add split_map class for mapping keys to values in a way that optimizes for frequent searches and infrequent insertions/removals
remove jump table implementation of GetColorRenderTargetFormatComponentCount, it was appearing relatively high in profiles. instead pack the component counts into a single 32 bit word, which is indexed by shifting
Add cvar to align all basic blocks to a boundary
Add mmio aware load paths
liberally apply XE_RESTRICT in ringbuffer related code
Removed the IS_TRUE and IS_FALSE opcodes, they were pointless duplicates of COMPARE_EQ/COMPARE_NE and i want to simplify our set of opcodes for future backends
More work on LVSR/LVSL/STVR/STVL opcodes
Optimized X64 translated code emission, now only compute instrkey once
Add code for pre-computing integer division magic numbers
Optimized GetHostViewportInfo a little
Move args for GetHostViewportInfo into a class, cache the result and compare for future queries. moved GetHostViewportInfo far lower on the profile
Add (currently not functional, and very racy) asynchronous memcpy code. will improve it and actually use it in future commits.
Add non-temporal memcpy function for huge page-aligned allocations. Used for copying to shared memory/readback
hoist are_accumulated_render_targets_valid_ check out of loop in render_target_cache already bound check.
Add stosb/movsb code for small constant memcpys/memsets that arent worth the overhead of memcpy/memset
Proper handling of nans for VMX max/min on x64 (minps/maxps has special behavior depending on the operand order that vmx does not have for vminfp/vmaxfp)
Add extremely unintrusive guest code profiler utilizing KUSER_SHARED systemtime. This profiler is disabled on platforms other than windows, and on windows is disabled by default by a cvar
Repurpose GUEST_SCRATCH64 stack offset to instead be for storing guest function profile times, define GUEST_SCRATCH as 0 instead, since thats already meant to be a scratch area
Fix xenia silently closing on config errors/other fatal errors by setting has_console_attached_'s default to false
Add alternative code path for guest clock that uses kusershared systemtime instead of QueryPerformanceCounter. This is way faster and I have tested it and found it to be working, but i have disabled it because i do not know how well it works on wine or on processors other than mine
Significantly reduce log spam by setting XELOGAPU and XELOGGPU to be LogLevel::Debug
Changed some LOGI to LOGD in places to reduce log spam
Mark VdSwap as kHighFrequency, it was spamming up logs
Make logging calls less intrusive for the caller by forcing the test of log level inline and moving the format/AppendLogLine stuff to an outlined cold function
Add swcache namespace for software cache operations like prefetches, streaming stores and streaming loads.
Add XE_MSVC_REORDER_BARRIER for preventing msvc from propagating a value too close to its store or from its load
Add xe_unlikely_mutex for locks we know have very little contention
add XE_HOST_CACHE_LINE_SIZE and XE_RESTRICT to platform.h
Microoptimization: Changed most uses of size_t to ring_size_t in RingBuffer, this reduces the size of the inlined ringbuffer operations slightly by eliminating rex prefixes, depending on register allocation
Add BeginPrefetchedRead to ringbuffer, which prefetches the second range if there is one according to the provided PrefetchTag
added inline_loadclock cvar, which will directly use the value of the guest clock from clock.cc in jitted guest code. off by default
change uses of GUEST_SCRATCH64 to GUEST_SCRATCH
Add fast vectorized xenos_half_to_float/xenos_float_to_half (currently resides in x64_seq_vector, move to gpu code maybe at some point)
Add fast x64 codegen for PackFloat16_4/UnpackFloat16_4. Same code can be used for Float16_2 in future commit. This should speed up some games that use these functions heavily
Remove cvar for toggling old float16 behavior
Add VRSAVE register, support mfspr/mtspr vrsave
Add cvar for toggling off codegen for trap instructions and set it to true by default.
Add specialized methods to CommandProcessor: WriteRegistersFromMem, WriteRegisterRangeFromRing, and WriteOneRegisterFromRing. These reduce the overall cost of WriteRegister
Use a fixed size vmem vector for upload ranges, realloc/memsetting on resize in the inner loop of requestranges was showing up on the profiler (the search in requestranges itself needs work)
Rename fixed_vmem_vector to better fit xenia's naming convention
Only log unknown register writes in WriteRegister if DEBUG :/. We're stuck on MSVC with c++17 so we have no way of influencing the branch ordering for that function without profile guided optimization
Remove binding stride assert in shader_translator.cc, triangle told me its leftover ogl stuff
Mark xe::FatalError as noreturn
If a controller is not connected, delay by 1.1 seconds before checking if it has been reconnected. Asking Xinput about a controller slot that is unused is extremely slow, and XinputGetState/SetState were taking up
an enormous amount of time in profiles. this may have caused a bit of input lag
Protect accesses to input_system with a lock
Add proper handling for user_index>= 4 in XamInputGetState/SetState, properly return zeroed state in GetState
Add missing argument to NtQueryVirtualMemory_entry
Fixed RtlCompareMemoryUlong_entry, it actually does not care if the source is misaligned, and for length it aligns down
Fixed RtlUpperChar and RtlLowerChar, added a table that has their correct return values precomputed
mark raw clock functions as noinline, the way msvc was inlining them and ordering the branches meant that rdtsc would often be speculatively executed
add alternative clock impl for win, instead of using queryperformancecounter we grab systemtime from kusershared. it does not have the same precision as queryperformancecounter, we only have 100 nanosecond precision, but we round to milliseconds so it never made sense to use the performance counter in the first place
stubbed out the "guest clock mutex"... (the entirety of clock.cc needs a rewrite)
added some helpers for minf/maxf without the nan handling behavior
But for normal msvc builds i would put it at around 30-50%
Added per-xexmodule caching of information per instruction, can be used to remember what code needs compiling at start up
Record what guest addresses wrote mmio and backpropagate that to future runs, eliminating dependence on exception trapping. this makes many games like h3 actually tolerable to run under a debugger
fixed a number of errors where temporaries were being passed by reference/pointer
Can now be compiled with clang-cl 14.0.1, requires -Werror off though and some other solution/project changes.
Added macros wrapping compiler extensions like noinline, forceinline, __expect, and cold.
Removed the "global lock" in guest code completely. It does not properly emulate the behavior of mfmsrd/mtmsr and it seriously cripples amd cpus. Removing this yielded around a 3x speedup in Halo Reach for me.
Disabled the microprofiler for now. The microprofiler has a huge performance cost associated with it. Developers can re-enable it in the base/profiling header if they really need it
Disable the trace writer in release builds. despite just returning after checking if the file was open the trace functions were consuming about 0.60% cpu time total
Add IsValidReg, GetRegisterInfo is a huge (about 45k) branching function and using that to check if a register was valid consumed a significant chunk of time
Optimized RingBuffer::ReadAndSwap and RingBuffer::read_count. This gave us the largest overall boost in performance. The memcpies were unnecessary and one of them was always a no-op
Added simplification rules for multiplicative patterns like (x+x), (x<<1)+x
For the most frequently called win32 functions i added code to call their underlying NT implementations, which lets us skip a lot of MS code we don't care about/isnt relevant to our usecases
^this can be toggled off in the platform_win header
handle indirect call true with constant function pointer, was occurring in h3
lookup host format swizzle in denser array
by default, don't check if a gpu register is unknown, instead just check if its out of range. controlled by a cvar
^looking up whether its known or not took approx 0.3% cpu time
Changed some things in /cpu to make the project UNITYBUILD friendly
The timer thread was spinning way too much and consuming a ton of cpu, changed it to use a blocking wait instead
tagged some conditions as XE_UNLIKELY/LIKELY based on profiler feedback (will only affect clang builds)
Shifted around some code in CommandProcessor::WriteRegister based on how frequently it was executed
added support for docdecaduple precision floating point so that we can represent our performance gains numerically
tons of other stuff im probably forgetting
For more optimal usage of exports and the parameter cache on the host regardless of how effective the optimizations in the host GPU driver are. Also reserve space for Vulkan/Metal/D3D11-specific HostVertexShaderTypes to use one more bit for the host vertex shader type in the shader modification bits, so that won't have to be done in the future as that would require invalidating shader storages (which are invalidated by this commit) again.
Put all descriptors used by translated shaders in up to 4 descriptor sets, which is the minimum required, and the most common on Android, `maxBoundDescriptorSets` device limit value
Fixes loading of the 1x1 linear 8_8_8_8 texture containing just a single #FFFFFFFF texel in 4D5307E6, which is used for screen fade and the lobby map loading bar background
Make it have no effect on the texture resource as a resource may be used with samplers with different overrides. Also make sure magnification vs. minification is not undefined with it on Direct3D 12.
According to the integral promotion rules https://eel.is/c++draft/conv.prom#5.sentence-1 bit fields can be promoted to `int` if it's wide enough to store their value, and then otherwise, to `unsigned int`. Hopefully fixes Clang building (the `width_div_8` case).
Float24-as-float32 depth bias is now in the increments of 8, because conversion of the depth to float24 directly in the pixel shaders may destroy the bias qualitatively otherwise if it's too small.
On Vulkan, when snorm16 in unsupported, these formats may be emulated as float16, which natively can represent a wide range of numbers including -32 to 32 with blending. However, R16G16_SNORM and R16G16B16A16_SNORM are two separate formats, which may have different support on the device.
Ordering the descriptor sets by the change frequency on Vulkan, in increasing order (the opposite of D3D12 root signatures). The EDRAM binding never changes there (always one storage buffer), while the destination buffer binding may become changeable in the future (to split dispatches if exceeding `maxStorageBufferRange`, for example).
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