Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/4] i965: Viewport extents on GEN8

2014-08-09 Thread Kenneth Graunke
On Monday, August 04, 2014 12:24:02 PM Ben Widawsky wrote: Viewport extents are a 3rd rectangle that defines which pixels get discarded as part of the rasterization process. This can potentially improve performance by reducing cache usage, and freeing up PS cycles. I'm not sure about cache

[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/4] i965: Viewport extents on GEN8

2014-08-04 Thread Ben Widawsky
Viewport extents are a 3rd rectangle that defines which pixels get discarded as part of the rasterization process. This can potentially improve performance by reducing cache usage, and freeing up PS cycles. It also permits the use of guardband clipping in all cases (see later patch). The actual