The heuristic to detect AMD's driver was not working properly since it
also included Intel. Instead of using heuristics to detect it, compare
the GL_VENDOR string.
Nvidia's OpenGL driver maps gl(Named)BufferSubData with some requirements
to a fast. This path has an extra memcpy but updates the buffer without
orphaning or waiting for previous calls. It can be seen as a better
model for "push constants" that can upload a whole UBO instead of 256
bytes.
This path has some requirements established here:
http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S4379-opengl-44-scene-rendering-techniques.pdf#page=24
Instead of using the stream buffer, this commits moves constant buffers
uploads to calls of glNamedBufferSubData and from my testing it brings a
performance improvement. This is disabled when the vendor is not Nvidia
since it brings performance regressions.
Implement VOTE using Nvidia's intrinsics. Documentation about these can
be found here
https://developer.nvidia.com/reading-between-threads-shader-intrinsics
Instead of using portable ARB instructions I opted to use Nvidia
intrinsics because these are the closest we have to how Tegra X1
hardware renders.
To stub VOTE on non-Nvidia drivers (including nouveau) this commit
simulates a GPU with a warp size of one, returning what is meaningful
for the instruction being emulated:
* anyThreadNV(value) -> value
* allThreadsNV(value) -> value
* allThreadsEqualNV(value) -> true
ballotARB, also known as "uint64_t(activeThreadsNV())", emits
VOTE.ANY Rd, PT, PT;
on nouveau's compiler. This doesn't match exactly to Nvidia's code
VOTE.ALL Rd, PT, PT;
Which is emulated with activeThreadsNV() by this commit. In theory this
shouldn't really matter since .ANY, .ALL and .EQ affect the predicates
(set to PT on those cases) and not the registers.
This commit implements gl_ViewportIndex and gl_Layer in vertex and
geometry shaders. In the case it's used in a vertex shader, it requires
ARB_shader_viewport_layer_array. This extension is available on AMD and
Nvidia devices (mesa and proprietary drivers), but not available on
Intel on any platform. At the moment of writing this description I don't
know if this is a hardware limitation or a driver limitation.
In the case that ARB_shader_viewport_layer_array is not available,
writes to these registers on a vertex shader are ignored, with the
appropriate logging.
Component indexing on AMD's proprietary driver is broken. This commit adds
a test to detect when we are on a driver that can't successfully manage
component indexing.
It dispatches a dummy draw with just one vertex shader that writes to an
indexed SSBO from the GPU with data sent through uniforms, it then reads
that data from the CPU and compares the expected output.
