The lock release within the wait for submission means that another thread could end up signalling the cycle and then the VK wait still happen after when the lock has been reacquired.
Readback can be especially slow on mobile due to the varying load pattern it creates which often prevents the CPU/GPU from clocking up. Since some games perform texture readback but don't actually use it for anything significant implement a hack to skip it and significantly improve performance in such cases.
Due to the frequency at which is is called megabuffering performance is critical to the performance of the entire emulator, especially in high-drawcall-count scenarios. After the view redesign, megabuffering on a per-view level was no longer possible nor desirable, and thus megabuffering was modified to just copy for every usage of a view. This worked great at the time since there were other bottlenecks, however gpu-new has since removed almost all of them and megabuffering is now a major sore point. Fix this by megabuffering small chunks and storing them in a page-table like structure within the buffer, these chunks can be referenced by multiple views and will be smartly invalidated whenever the sequence number or execution number changes to avoid any sequencing issues. In addition to this, to help the case where almost the whole buffer is read every single frame across a set of multiple views, an optimisation to skip the chunked tracking and use one large single megabuffer allocation and one single memcpy has been introduced. This reduces the overall amount of time spent in memcpy since large memcpys are quicker.
Rather than using just bpb for format compat, additionally check that the exact component bit layout matches since many games end up reusing RTs for unrelated textures. The texture size requirements have also been weaked to only check the resulting layer size as opposed to width/height - this is somewhat hacky but it gets around the problem of blocklinear alignment.
Prevents situations where nothing would otherwise be waiting on the GPU and since presentation no longer blocks too many images would be submitted for presentation.
In some cases like presentation, it may be possible to avoid waiting on the CPU by using a semaphore to indicate GPU completion. Due to the binary nature of Vulkan semaphores this requires a fair bit of code as we need to ensure semaphores are always unsignalled before they are waited on and signalled again. This is achieved with a special kind of chained cycle that can be added even after guest GPFIFO processing for a given cycle, the main cycle's semaphore can be waited and then the cycle for the wait attached to the main cycle and it will be waited on before signalling.
TIC sizes may not be aligned to block linear dimensions whereas RT sizes are and then limited by the surface clip. By using this to determine surface size we are more likely to get a match in texture manager for any future usages.
Keep a copy of the old TIC entry and view even after purge caches and use the execution number to check validity instead, if that doesn't match then just memcmp can be used as opposed to a full hash and map lookup.
When profiling SMO, it became obvious that the constant locking of textures and buffers in SyncDescriptors took up a large amount of CPU time (3-5%), a precious resource in intensive areas like Metro. This commit implements somewhat of a workaround to avoid constant relocking, if a buffer is frequently attached on the GPU and almost never used on the CPU we can keep the lock held between executions. Of course it's not that simple though, if the guest tries to lock a texture for the first time which has already been locked as preserve on the GPFIFO we need to avoid a deadlock. This is acheived through a combination of two things: first we periodically clear the locked attachments every 2*SlotCount submissions, preventing a complete deadlock on the CPU (just a long wait instead) and meaning that the next time the resource is attached on the GPU it will not be marked for preservation due to having been locked on the guest before; second, we always need to unlock everything when the GPU thread runs out of work, as the perioding clearing will not execute in this case which would otherwise leave the textures locked on the GPFIFO thread forever (if guest was waiting on a lock to submit work). It should be noted that we don't clear preserve attached resources in the latter scenario, only unlock them and then relock when more work is available.
Avoids one race where we would end up hogging all the locks of chained cycles and ourself when waiting for submission of previous cycles and prevent any forward progress due to another thread locking one of the chained cycles.
For the upcoming preserve attachment optimisation, which will keep buffers/textures locked on the GPU between executions, we don't want to preserve any which are frequently locked on the CPU as that would result in lots of needless waiting for a resource to be unlocked by the GPU when it occasionally frees all preserve attachments when it could have been done much sooner. By checking if a resource has ever been locked on the CPU and using that to choose whether we preserve it we can avoid such waiting.
Allowing for parallel execution of channels never really benefitted many games and prevented optimisations such as keeping frequently used resources always locked to avoid the constant overhead of locking on the hot path.
Ontop of the TIC cache from previous code a simple index based lookup has been added which vastly speeds things up by avoding the need to hash the TIC structure every time.
Introducing async record resulted in breaking the assumption that any work submitted through command scheduler would be submitted in order with graphics submits. Since async record now unlocks the texture before it's submitted a seperate mechanism is needed to ensure ordering of submits. This is achieved by building support into fence cycle itself, with a conditional variable that is waited on for submission before any fence waits occur.
GPFIFO code is very high throughput due to the sheer number of commands used for rendering. Adjust some types and switch to a if statement with hints to slightly increase processing speed.
Recording of command nodes into Vulkan command buffers is very easily parallelisable as it can effectively be treated as part of the GPU execution, which is inherently async. By moving it to a seperate thread we can shave off about 20% of GPFIFO execution time. It should be noted that the command scheduler command buffer infra is no longer used, since we need to record texture updates on the GPFIFO thread (while another slot is being recorded on the record thread) and then use the same command buffer on the record thread later. This ends up requiring a pool per slot, which is reasonable considering we only have four slots by default.
Using command executor for each state individual update was found to be infeasible due to the shear number of state updates per draw and it relying on per-node heap allocations. Instead this commit takes advantage of each state update being used only once to implement a system of linearly-allocated state update commands that are linked together. After setting up all draw state with StateUpdateBuilder, the built StateUpdater can then be used in the execution phase to record all of the draw state into the command buffer with almost zero ovehead.
SMO implements instanced draws by repeating the same draw just with a different constant buffer bound. Reduce the cost of this significantly by detecting such cases and instead of processing every descriptor, copy the previous descriptor set and update only the ones affected by the bound constant buffer.
Credits to ripinperiperi for the initial idea and making me aware of how SMO does these draws
When a buffer is trapped nearly every frame, the cost of trapping and synchronising its contents starts to quickly add up. By always using the megabuffer when this is the case, since megabuffer copies are done directly from the guest, we skip the need to synchronise/trap the backing.
The original intention was to cache on the user side, but especially with shader constant buffers that's difficult and costly. Instead we can cache on the buffer side, with a page-table like structure to hold variable sized allocations indexed by the aligned view base address. This avoids most redundant copies from repeated use of the same buffer without updates inbetween.
Avoids the need to hash PipelineState when we can guess the pipeline that will be used next. This could very easily be optimised in the future with generational, usage-based caching if necessary.
gm20b performs instanced draws by repeating draw methods for each instance, the code to detect this together with the cost of interpreting macros took up around 6% of GPFIFO time in Metro Kingdom. By detecting these specific macros and performing an instanced draw directly much of that cost can be avoided.
