Every tile a triangle touches sets it up again, so larger tiles do less
of that. The tile size is now picked at startup, as large as it can be
with at least sixteen tiles per thread over the screen. With fewer, a
scene whose drawing is concentrated on part of the screen leaves threads
idle: on eight threads, 128x32 tiles (four per thread) took LocoRoco a
third longer than 64x16, and God of War 5% longer. So eight threads keep
64x16, and four or fewer get larger tiles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Waking a worker is a condition variable signal, a system call, and the main thread paid one per idle
worker every 48 queued items. With Tekken 6's tiny draws (about 5 vertices each) the workers keep
running dry, and those signals were about 10% of the main thread, which is what limits it there.
Now no more threads are woken than tiles have work, and only the first is woken from the main thread;
it wakes the rest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A state that textures from what it draws to, or whose scissor reaches
past the stride, used to switch the binner to one thread, and every
primitive was drawn alone, copying the whole texture for its snapshot.
In Wipeout, God of War and GTA that was a third to half of the time.
Now it's decided per primitive. One is drawn after everything queued
and before what follows only if it needs that: it textures from texels
a queued primitive (or itself) writes, it writes texels a queued one
still has to read, or it reaches past the stride. Reads are bounded by
the vertices' texture coordinates plus the filter's neighbors and
mapped to tiles of the target; queued writes and reads are tracked per
tile. Everything else goes to the tiles as usual. The in-order ones are
split into bands of rows when large, since each pixel reads only the
snapshot, and the snapshot now only copies the previous primitive's
columns.
Same results on 263 frame dumps and 8 games.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each thread used to own a band of the screen, fixed when the work was
first split, and got its own copies of the primitives touching it. Bands
were rarely balanced (edge bands had half the work of middle ones, and
on big.LITTLE CPUs half the threads are slower), and primitives queued
up to the 2048 limit before the threads started.
Now primitives go to 64x16 tiles, as indices into the shared queue, in
batches of 16. A thread takes any tile with work and draws its items in
order; only one thread holds a tile at a time, so per-pixel order is
kept. A flush or a full queue has the main thread draw tiles too instead
of waiting, and when there's only a little work it does that alone
rather than wake the threads. Items are reclaimed once every tile has
drawn them. This also drops the per-thread queues, up to 23 MB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A texture that fits in the GE's 8 KB texture cache keeps what was first
read until TEXFLUSH, across primitives and draws, so a later self-textured
draw doesn't see an earlier one's writes (gpu/probe exp174: three passes
over a 16x16 4444 buffer differ in 177 pixels with and without a flush
between them, both now exact). FF Type-0's (NPJH50443) blur; two of its
PSP replays become exact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pixels past the framebuffer's stride land at the start of the next row,
which another binning task may be drawing, so the result raced. Tokimeki
Memorial (NPJH50127) blurs a 128 wide buffer under a full screen scissor;
its PSP replay is now exact (gpu/probe exp166).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GE samples through its texture cache, so a primitive that textures from
its own render target mostly reads the old contents (geprobe exp81, exp159,
exp160). Give each such primitive a snapshot, refreshing only the rows the
previous one drew.
3rd Birthday (ULUS10567) bloom becomes exact on PSP replays, Burnout
Dominator's glare 93% -> 98% and Ridge Racer's blur 40% -> 94% of pixels.
The remaining differences are rows where the cache's lazily loaded 8-row
blocks already see the primitive's own writes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With vertices far apart in the 4096 pixel screen space the cross product
overflowed 32 bits, flipping its sign, so both windings of a large triangle
were dropped (gpu/probe exp132: the PSP draws it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A triangle with collinear vertices lights no pixels on the PSP, even when its
edge runs through pixel centers (gpu/probe exp118, through and transform
mode). The binner only dropped them when all x or all y were equal, so
degenerate strip triangles drew lines of pixels along shared edges. Fixes
the last differences in two frame dumps (Issue 15129, ULUS10041).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Flush() on an empty queue now trims the state and CLUT rings, since its
callers flush because one is full and push right after.
- BinQueue::Full() uses >=, so an overshoot can't go unnoticed.
- IsExactSelfRender compares against the target the queued draws were
binned for, not gstate, which already has the next one during a flush.
- A depth test without depth writes marks the depth buffer as read.
- The DarkStalkers untextured sprite recomputes the binner state around it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The block transfer overlap check passed the stride in pixels where bytes
are expected, so it only covered part of the rectangle.
- A selfrender/selfdepth flush in UpdateState dropped the current draw's
pending writes and reads, so later transfers didn't wait for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A code space clear frees the functions the current state points to, but
the state was kept as long as the GE registers didn't change. Track the
clear generations and recompute, also when a compile during the state
computation clears the caches.
Also skip the binner flush for compiles on builds without the software
JIT, where Compile() does nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Might be some other ways, like doing this directly in a vertex reader.
Also am thinking about doing things regarding UVs or positions.
Flags not yet used, keeping separate for perf checks.
When we flush we mark all pending writes zero, but we rely on this being
set to detect self-render.
TRANSFORM_ALL was wrong as well, sometimes clearing BINNER_RANGE.
Even if X is not equal, if all Y are equal, we can still skip.
This seems to happen more often than I expected with far away objects.
Skipping here avoids filling up the queue.
