Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 57165f2ef8ea743238ac1074fe80539a91da4835
URL:    
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=57165f2ef8ea743238ac1074fe80539a91da4835

Author: Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com>
Date:   Thu May 25 12:29:20 2017 +1000

glsl: disable array splitting for AoA

While it produces functioning code the pass creates worse code
for arrays of arrays. See the comment added in this patch for more
detail.

V2: skip splitting of AoA of matrices too.

Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net>

---

 src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp 
b/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
index fb6d77bd94..d2e81665b7 100644
--- a/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
+++ b/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
@@ -140,6 +140,29 @@ ir_array_reference_visitor::get_variable_entry(ir_variable 
*var)
    if (var->type->is_unsized_array())
       return NULL;
 
+   /* FIXME: arrays of arrays are not handled correctly by this pass so we
+    * skip it for now. While the pass will create functioning code it actually
+    * produces worse code.
+    *
+    * For example the array:
+    *
+    *    int[3][2] a;
+    *
+    * ends up being split up into:
+    *
+    *    int[3][2] a_0;
+    *    int[3][2] a_1;
+    *    int[3][2] a_2;
+    *
+    * And we end up referencing each of these new arrays for example:
+    *
+    *    a[0][1] will be turned into a_0[0][1]
+    *    a[1][0] will be turned into a_1[1][0]
+    *    a[2][0] will be turned into a_2[2][0]
+    */
+   if (var->type->is_array() && var->type->fields.array->is_array())
+      return NULL;
+
    foreach_in_list(variable_entry, entry, &this->variable_list) {
       if (entry->var == var)
          return entry;

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