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
"turns out theres a lot of quirks with the div instructions we havent been covering
if the denom is 0, we jump to the end and mov eax/rax to dst, which is correct because ppc raises no exceptions for divide by 0 unlike x86
except we don't initialize eax before that jump, so whatever garbage from the previous sequence that has been left in eax/rax is what the result of the instruction will be
and then in our constant folding, we don't do the same zero check in Value::Div, so if we constant folded the denom to 0 we will host crash
the ppc manual says the result for a division by 0 is undefined, but in reality it seems it is always 0
there are a few posts i saw from googling about it, and tests on my rgh gave me 0, but then another issue came up
and that is that we dont check for signed overflow in our division, so we raise an exception if guest code ever does (1<<signbit_pos) / -1
signed overflow in division also produces 0 on ppc
the last thing is that if src2 is constant we skip the 0 check for division
without checking if its nonzero
all weird, likely very rare edge cases, except for maybe the signed overflow division
chrispy — Today at 9:51 AM
oh yeah, and because the int members of constantvalue are all signed ints, we were actually doing signed division always with constant folding"
fixed an earlier mistake by me with the precision of fresx
made some optimization disableable
implemented vkpkx
fixed possible bugs with vsr/vsl constant folding
disabled the nice imul code for now, there was a bug with int64 version and i dont have time to check
started on multiplication/addition/subtraction/division identities
Removed optimized VSL implementation, it's going to have to be rewritten anyway
Added ppc_ctx_t to xboxkrnl shim for direct context access
started working on KeSaveFloatingPointState, re'ed most of it
Exposed some more state/functionality to the kernel for implementing lower level routines like the save/restore ones
Add cvar to re-enable incorrect mxcsr behavior if a user doesnt care and wants better cpu performance
Stubbed out more impossible sequences, replace mul_hi_i32 with a 64 bit multiply
Add alternate path to DOT_PRODUCT_3/4 for use_fast_dot_product that skips all the status register stuff and just remaps inf to qnan
Add OPCODE_TO_SINGLE to replace the CONVERT_F32_F64 - CONVERT_F64_F32 sequence we used to emit with the idea that a backend could implement a more correct rounding behavior if possible on its arch
Remove some impossible sequences like MUL_HI_I8/I16, MUL_ADD_F32, DIV_V128. These instructions have no equivalent in PPC. Many other instructions are unused/dead code and should be removed to make the x64 backend a better reference for future ones
Add backend_flags to Instr. Basically, flags field that a backend can use for whatever it wants when generating code.
Add backend instr flag to x64 that tells it to not generate code for an instruction. this allows sequences to consume subsequent instructions
Generate actual x64 code for VSL instruction instead of using callnativesafe
Detect repeated COMPARE instructions w/ identical operands and reuse the results in FLAGS if so. this eliminates a ton of garbage compare/set instructions.
If a COMPARE instructions destination is stored to context with no intervening instruction and no additional uses besides the store, do setx [ctx address]
Detect prefetchw and use it in CACHE_CONTROL if prefetch for write is requested instead of doing prefetch to all cache levels
Fixed an accident in an earlier commit by me, VECTOR_DENORMFLUSH was not being emitted at all, so denormal inputs to MUL_ADD_V128 were not becoming zero and outputs from DOT_PRODUCT_X were not either. I believe this introduced a bug into RDR where a wagon wouldnt spawn? (https://discord.com/channels/308194948048486401/308207592482668545/1000443975817252874)
Compute fresx in double precision using RECIP_F64 and then round to single instead of doing (double)(1.0f / (float)value), matching original behavior better
Refactor some of ppc_emit_fpu, much of the InstrEmit function are identical except for whether they round to single or not
Added "tail emitters" to X64Emitter. These are callbacks that get invoked with their label and the X64Emitter after the epilog code. This allows us to move cold code out of the critical path and in the future place constant pools near functions
guest_to_host_thunk/host_to_guest_thunk now gets directly rel32 called, instead of doing a mov
Add X64BackendContext structure, represents data before the start of the PPCContext
Instead of doing branchless sequence, do a compare and jump to tail emitted code for address translation. This makes converting addresses a 3 uop affair in most cases.
Do qnan move for dot product in a tail emitter
Detect whether EFLAGS bits are independent variables for the current cpu (not really detecting it ehe, just checking if zen) and if so generate inc/dec for add/sub 1
Detect whether low 32 bits of membase are 0. If they are then we can use membasereg.cvt32() in place of immediate 0 in many places, particularly in stores
Detect LOAD MODIFY STORE pattern for context variables (currently only done for 64 bit ones) and turn them into modify [context ptr]. This is done for add, sub, and, or, xor, not, neg
Tail emit error handling for TRAP opcodes
Stub out unused trap opcodes like TRAP_TRUE_I32, TRAP_TRUE_I64, TRAP_TRUE_I16 (the call_true/return_true opcodes for these types are also probably unused)
Remove BackpropTruncations. It was poorly written and causes crashes on the game Viva pinata (https://discord.com/channels/308194948048486401/701111856600711208/1000249460451983420)
Use variable for Python version to make upgrading easier.
xb.bat:
Update copyright date.
Add candidate paths.
xb.ps1
Properly use found python executable.
More consistency with .bat.
Don't spew unnecessary errors, etc.
EOF newline.
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.
Radosław Gliński