On 5 November 2013 23:45, Tapani Pälli <tapani.pa...@intel.com> wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 07:36 PM, Paul Berry wrote: > > On 1 November 2013 02:16, Tapani Pälli <tapani.pa...@intel.com> wrote: > >> >> + >> +/** >> + * Function to create an unique string for a ir_variable. This is >> + * used by variable dereferences to indicate the exact ir_variable >> + * when deserialization happens. >> > > I still don't understand why we don't just use the pointer for this > purpose. It's unique, and it takes up much less storage than > <name>_<decimal address>. > > > > We need to construct a unique name to refer to when reading so this is > constructed here already. It could be also just a counter like is used > somewhere else (to have assignment_tmp@1, assignment_tmp@2) but I wanted > to keep this code minimal as it's just unique naming. > I'm sorry, there's still something I'm not understanding. Before serialization, the names are not unique. So I don't see why we need to create unique names when reading. The goal should be to reproduce the IR data structure that was saved as closely as possible. It seems like storing the address of the ir_variable (or some other suitably determined unique numeric id) should be sufficient for this. When we serialize the ir_variable, we write out its unique numeric id. When we serialize an ir_dereference_variable, we write out the unique numeric id of the ir_variable it refers to. When deserializing an ir_variable, we store the mapping from its unique numeric id to its new address in memory in a hash table. When deserializing an ir_dereference_variable, we look up the unique numeric id to find the address of the ir_variable that's already been deserialized. It doesn't seem to me that uniqueness of names is necessary anywhere in that process. What am I missing? > > + >> + for (unsigned i = 0; i < ir->num_state_slots; i++) { >> + blob.write_int32(&ir->state_slots[i].swizzle); >> > > Swizzles are unsigned 8-bit values. This should be write_uint8. > > > > OK, maybe the struct could also be changed to have only 8 bits instead of > a int then. > I could get behind that change. > > > + CACHE_DEBUG("write %d prototypes\n", total); > >> + >> + foreach_list_const(node, shader->ir) { >> + ir_instruction *const inst = (ir_instruction *) node; >> + if (inst->as_variable()) >> + if (save(inst)) >> + goto write_errors; >> + } >> + >> + foreach_list_const(node, shader->ir) { >> + ir_instruction *const inst = (ir_instruction *) node; >> + if (inst->as_function()) >> + if (save(inst)) >> + goto write_errors; >> + } >> > > Why is it necessary to save the variables and instructions first? > > > This is because during parsing we might encounter a call to a function > that does not exist yet, same goes for variable references. Another way > would be to modify the reading side so that it makes 2 passes over the data > but I took this way as originally reader did not use mmap so it was just > simpler. > Ok, I think you are correct about the functions. But I believe for variables, the ir_variable always appears in the IR before any references to it. Can someone confirm this? (Ken or Ian perhaps?)
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