On 30/06/17 12:45, Timothy Arceri wrote:
While it produces functioning code the pass creates worse code
for arrays of arrays. See the comment added in this patch for more
detail.
---
  src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp 
b/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
index fb6d77b..b3d4599 100644
--- a/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
+++ b/src/compiler/glsl/opt_array_splitting.cpp
@@ -140,6 +140,32 @@ 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]
+    *
+    * For now we continue to split AoA of matrices to avoid CTS regressions.
+    */
+   if (var->type->is_array() && var->type->fields.array->is_array() &&
+       !var->type->without_array()->is_matrix())

Actually with the previous patch it can be disabled for AoA of matrices too. I've made this change locally.


+      return NULL;
+
     foreach_in_list(variable_entry, entry, &this->variable_list) {
        if (entry->var == var)
           return entry;

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