Radeon Gallium3D Hierarchical-Z Updated (R600)

[elanthis]

I despise ZCULL (NV's name for HiZ), it keeps pretending to "work" yet doesn't improve performance at all (on nv50+ that is) ... probably needs more magic. Or it's all covered up by other bottlenecks.

Then something is wrong with the driver, or as you say, other bottlenecks. Or possibly the apps you're testing are just doing one of the several things that disables early-z and hence hierarchical z-buffer optimizations.

[curaga]

Just the other day I was wondering why the Z reject speed on my r700 sucked. Looking forward to this being in master.

[allquixotic]

So far, so pretty good... working well with Linux Mint's cinnamon fork of gnome-shell, and I had a stable experience running Star Trek Online with wine 1.4.0-rc2. Well, for about half an hour, and then I got GPU soft lockups and had to kill X, but amazingly didn't have to reboot.

Seems like maybe an instruction got emitted that didn't bounce off the CS checker and caused the GPU to lock up, but the driver was able to reset it:

[ 3558.663953] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10011msec
[ 3558.663956] GPU lockup (waiting for 0x000B8073 last fence id 0x000B806B)
[ 3558.665062] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GPU softreset
[ 3558.665065] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS=0xF5700828
[ 3558.665067] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000001
[ 3558.665069] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0xFC000001
[ 3558.665071] radeon 0000:04:00.0: SRBM_STATUS=0x20000AC0
[ 3558.665088] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_SOFT_RESET=0x00007F6B
[ 3558.665192] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS=0x00003828
[ 3558.665194] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000007
[ 3558.665196] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0x00000007
[ 3558.665198] radeon 0000:04:00.0: SRBM_STATUS=0x200000C0
[ 3558.666206] radeon 0000:04:00.0: GPU reset succeed
[ 3558.791800] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000000040000).
[ 3558.791945] radeon 0000:04:00.0: WB enabled
[ 3558.791948] [drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x40000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff88041ed7ec00
[ 3558.808610] [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 3558.808626] [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 1 usecs

[RavFX]

Save, in EVE-Online after +- 20 minutes...

The GPU started to chain soft-lock until I magic-key reboot with the yesterday kernel.

[whizse]

It looks like Glisse is working on making r600g a lot faster, as his project.
I sure hope 8.1 has both these included -- I wonder if 50% up is a reasonable expectation?
(based on the '20-30%' for 2d tiling, and a wag of similar improvements from HiZ)

Anyhow, is there a git branch somewhere with patches applied?

Testing out Doom3 it's actually somewhat slower with HiZ than without it, which was a bit surprising. On r300g HiZ in Doom3 made quite a big difference.

[pixo]

Enybody else has a problem that after some time the apps die with not enought free memry?