Backends can normally handle shader inputs solely by looking at
load_input intrinsics, and ignore the nir_variables in nir->inputs.
One exception is fragment shader inputs. load_input doesn't capture
the necessary interpolation information - flat, smooth, noperspective
mode, and centroid, sample, or pixel for the location. This means
that backends have to interpolate based on the nir_variables, then
associate those with the load_input intrinsics (say, by storing a
map of which variables are at which locations).
With GL_ARB_enhanced_layouts, we're going to have multiple varyings
packed into a single vec4 location. The intrinsics make this easy:
simply load N components from location <loc, component>. However,
working with variables and correlating the two is very awkward; we'd
much rather have intrinsics capture all the necessary information.
Fragment shader input interpolation typically works by producing a
set of barycentric coordinates, then using those to do a linear
interpolation between the values at the triangle's corners.
We represent this by introducing five new load_barycentric_* intrinsics:
- load_barycentric_pixel (ordinary variable)
- load_barycentric_centroid (centroid qualified variable)
- load_barycentric_sample (sample qualified variable)
- load_barycentric_at_sample (ARB_gpu_shader5's interpolateAtSample())
- load_barycentric_at_offset (ARB_gpu_shader5's interpolateAtOffset())
Each of these take the interpolation mode (smooth or noperspective only)
as a const_index, and produce a vec2. The last two also take a sample
or offset source.
We then introduce a new load_interpolated_input intrinsic, which
is like a normal load_input intrinsic, but with an additional
barycentric coordinate source.
The intention is that flat inputs will still use regular load_input
intrinsics. This makes them distinguishable from normal inputs that
need fancy interpolation, while also providing all the necessary data.
This nicely unifies regular inputs and interpolateAt functions.
Qualifiers and variables become irrelevant; there are just
load_barycentric intrinsics that determine the interpolation.
v2: Document the interp_mode const_index value, define a new
BARYCENTRIC() helper rather than using SYSTEM_VALUE() for
some of them (requested by Jason Ekstrand).
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Forbes <chrisforbes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Clean up misrepetitions ('if if', 'the the' etc) found throughout the
comments. This has been done manually, after grepping
case-insensitively for duplicate if, is, the, then, do, for, an,
plus a few other typos corrected in fly-by
v2:
* proper commit message and non-joke title;
* replace two 'as is' followed by 'is' to 'as-is'.
v3:
* 'a integer' => 'an integer' and similar (originally spotted by
Jason Ekstrand, I fixed a few other similar ones while at it)
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chad Versace <chad.versace@intel.com>
This is used to facilitate the Vulkan binding model where each resource is
described by a (descriptor set, binding, array index) tuple.
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
This allows us to first generate atomic operations for shared
variables using these opcodes, and then later we can lower those to
the shared atomics intrinsics with nir_lower_io.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Direct access to intr->const_index[n], where different slots have
different meanings, is somewhat confusing.
Instead, let's put some extra info in nir_intrinsic_infos[] about which
slots map to what, and add some get/set helpers. The helpers validate
that the field being accessed (base/writemask/etc) is applicable for the
intrinsic opc, for some extra safety. And nir_print can use this to
dump out decoded const_index fields.
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robclark@freedesktop.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
