VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_SKIP_AABBS_BIT_KHR and
VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_SKIP_TRIANGLES_BIT_KHR, when specified,
make TraceRay behave as if the corresponding shader flags were set, but
without affecting the value of IncomingRayFlags in shaders.
v2 (Lionel): Improve comments
Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/19152>
Unlike graphics and compute pipelines, Vulkan ray-tracing pipelines do
not have a single entrypoint. Instead, the raygen shader is specified
as a one-element shader binding table in the vkCmdTraceRay call. This
means that raygen shaders have to be bindless shaders just like any
other ray tracing shader. To launch them, we have a tiny compute shader
that acts as a trampoline and sets up the hotzone and uses btd_spawn to
fire off the raygen shader.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
Both traceRay() and executeCallable() take a payload parameter which
gets passed from the caller to the callee and which the callee can write
to pass data back to the caller. We implement these by passing a
pointer to the data structure in the callee to the caller as the second
QWord on its stack. Coming out of spirv_to_nir, the incoming call
payloads get the nir_var_shader_call_data variable mode allowing us to
easily identify them. Outgoing call payloads get assigned the
nir_var_shader_temp mode and will have been turned into function_temp by
nir_lower_global_vars_to_local. All we have to do is crawl the shader
looking for references to the nir_var_shader_call_data variable and
rewrite those to use the passed in pointer. nir_lower_explicit_io will
do the rest for us.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
These are required for ray-tracing. There are many cases where the
ray-tracing hardware may decide to execute some but not all of our
shaders. In these cases, it needs a shader to execute at the end which
will pop the stack back to the shader which called traceRay().
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
Each callable ray-tracing shader shader stage has to perform a return
operation at the end. In the case of raygen shaders, it retires the
bindless thread because the raygen shader is always the root of the call
tree. In the case of any-hit shaders, the default action is accep the
hit. For callable, miss, and closest-hit shaders, it does a return
operation. The assumption is that the calling shader has placed a
BINDLESS_SHADER_RECORD address for the return in the first QWord of the
callee's scratch space. The return operation simply loads this value
and calls a btd_spawn intrinsic to jump to it.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
In ray-tracing shader stages, we have a real call stack and so we can't
use the normal scratch mechanism. Instead, the invocation's stack lives
in a memory region of the RT scratch buffer that sits after the HW ray
stacks. We handle this by asking nir_lower_io to lower local variables
to 64-bit global memory access. Unlike nir_lower_io for 32-bit offset
scratch, when 64-bit global access is requested, nir_lower_io generates
an address calculation which starts from a load_scratch_base_ptr. We
then lower this intrinsic to the appropriate address calculation in
brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics.
When a COMPUTE_WALKER command is sent to the hardware with the BTD Mode
bit set to true, the hardware generates a set of stack IDs, one for each
invocation. These then get passed along from one shader invocation to
the next as we trace the ray. We can use those stack IDs to figure out
which stack our invocation needs to access. Because we may not be the
first shader in the stack, there's a per-stack offset that gets stored
in the "hotzone".
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
These will eventually contain per-stage lowering for various ray-tracing
things. This is separate from brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics because, for
reasons that will become apparent later, brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics has
to be run very late in the compile process, right before brw_compile_bs.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
The new intrinsics we added for doing address calculations are all
things we fetch from the RT_DISPATCH_GLOBALS struct. We could emit an
RT_DISPATCH_GLOBALS load at every point we want it and trust NIR to CSE
it for us but it's easier to use intermediate intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
