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video_core, vulkan: AMD and split GPU thread fixes for Ocarina of Time - #573
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000)
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All numbers come from that machine, measured through the debug server at fixed spots in Kokiri Forest. Every change was A/B tested in game behind an environment switch first; the switches are gone here, and each change is unconditional (or AMD-only where AMD's driver is what needs it). Since the last update the branch also runs with a simulated 8 GB card (EDEN_NX2_VRAM_LIMIT_MIB=8192): same frame rates as with 16 GB.
Results
MSVC Release build of this branch:
Spot
Before (this session's first build)
With this PR
Great Deku Tree, standing
~35 FPS
56-58 FPS
Kokiri village (fog, falling leaves, water), standing
14 FPS
23-24 FPS
Kokiri Forest at the start of this work
9 FPS
—
Built the way the release builds are (clang-cl, ThinLTO, lichii-windows.profdata), my local branch reaches ~31 FPS at the village spot and stays at ~30 FPS or more running through the forest (47-50 FPS where the MSVC build shows 43). That branch is this PR plus EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1 and a few local experiments that are not in this PR, with the earlier preset variant of change 1, so take it as an indication of what the release builds should get, not as a measurement of this branch.
Independent test by @estevanbs on an RX 9060 XT (RDNA4) over nx2 92f0212: 19.4 -> 38.6 FPS from the Kokiri start position and 18.9 -> 48.9 FPS on a short walk, no missing or flickering objects.
Changes
vk_query_cache: no stall per samples query copy on AMD. Copy only the slots of the queries being synced and zero the gaps (the wide copy waited, with WAIT_BIT, on slots no query ended). On AMD's proprietary driver results can land after the copy even behind a barrier on all prior work (each copy still waited ~9.6 ms), so the slots are copied without WAIT_BIT, with each slot's availability word, and a small compute pass resolves each slot to its count when it had landed and to 1024 samples otherwise: a late result reads as visible (an occluded object drawn) rather than hidden (the scene vanished) or a stall. The availability word decides, not what the copy writes for an unavailable query, which the Vulkan spec leaves undefined (approach from @Savulska's test in this thread). 9 -> 22 FPS in Kokiri Forest at the time. vulkan: import the easy AMD fixes from the CheezerWheezer fork survey (EGLA-67) #679's wait on the newest query is kept for the other drivers it targets (AMD open source), applied to these runs; on the RX 9070 XT it gave 54 FPS under the Deku Tree against 56-58 here, and a less steady run through the forest.
pipeline_optimization: build compute e0a992208d87eeb8 unoptimized on AMD (1.3-4 s stalls in Kokiri Forest).
vk_rasterizer: submit every 512 draws on AMD's driver (128 elsewhere; EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWS still decides). Each submission costs much more on AMD: 256 gave +10-12 FPS where it was already fast, 512 a further 35 -> 50 FPS at the Deku Tree.
decoders: split large unswizzles over helper threads. Unswizzles of 1 MiB or more are split by lines over a quarter of the host threads (at most 4) plus the caller, which waits for them (same result). New textures while running took ~11% of the split back thread: +2-4 FPS running, +1-2 standing, fewer drops. 6 threads or a 256 KiB threshold made busy spots drop harder.
Dropped since the first version: the texture cache cap. After more investigation and testing, with the card limited to 8 GB instead of 16 GB (5 GiB cap), the game ran as fast as with the raised cap: the 14 -> 24 FPS given for it came from the shader cache warming up on the first run, not from the cap.
Recommended on AMD (not in this PR)
EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1: without it each new pipeline froze Ocarina of Time for 1-1.4 s on AMD while running into a new area. It stays opt-in (a skipped native draw can write persistent resources).
What limits it now (for whoever looks next)
At the village spot the GPU is busy ~12 ms of a ~42 ms frame (GPU timestamps, EDEN_DKB_FRAME_TRACE=1): the limit is the CPU side. The split front and back mostly alternate there (~2,400 drains a second, the back idle ~20% of the time), and the back spends ~9 us per draw on ~90,000 draws a second.
Tried and dropped since the first version: letting the back decide the occlusion macro's render_enable.mode itself (macro 0xe2c reads one report and writes 0x556 = count != 0; it removed the front's waits on those reads but not the alternation), skipping drains on semaphore acquires (compute, copy engine and some puller releases aren't tracked: heavy stutter), deferring wait-for-idle to the end of the render pass (more render passes, slower in motion). Earlier: pinning the GPU threads, pre-creating render targets, a render target reuse pool, exact occlusion results, macros on the back (EDEN_NX2_SPLIT=1).
Measured on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000),
Ryzen 7 5800X + Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, AMD driver 32.0.32015.7029,
Windows 11. Each change was A/B tested in game behind a switch first.
- vk_query_cache: copy only the slots of the samples queries being
synced and zero the gaps (the wide copy waited on slots no query
ended, ~8 ms each on AMD); on AMD's driver, preset the synced slots to
1024 samples and copy without WAIT_BIT, and read host results without
waiting, so a late result counts as visible. 9 -> 22 FPS in Kokiri
Forest, no vanishing scene.
- texture_cache: cap the collector at 3/5 of device memory when that is
above 5 GiB. At 5 GiB a 16 GB card re-created ~10k images and
re-uploaded 13-16 GB every 22 s; 14 -> 24 FPS at a busy spot.
- vk_pipeline_cache: skip native draws whose pipeline still builds by
default on AMD's driver (EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=0/1 still decides):
1-1.4 s freezes per new pipeline while running.
- pipeline_optimization: build compute e0a992208d87eeb8 unoptimized on
AMD (1.3-4 s stalls).
- vk_rasterizer: submit every 512 draws on AMD's driver (128 elsewhere;
EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWS still decides): 256 gave +10-12 FPS where it was
already fast, 512 a further 35 -> 50 at one spot.
- decoders: split unswizzles of 1 MiB or more by lines over a quarter of
the host threads (at most 4) plus the caller: +2-4 FPS running, +1-2
standing; 6 threads or a 256 KiB threshold made busy spots drop harder.
- puller: take a semaphore acquire without draining the split back when
the word in guest memory (on a page no GPU copy holds newer data for)
already meets it: 73% of ~2800 acquires/s, 573k checked against the
drained read without a contradiction; publishes and notes a sync
point as the drain did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The changes add AMD-specific Vulkan shader, draw-budget, and query handling. They add a compute pass for query availability, parallelize qualifying texture unswizzling, and update state access in the Ocarina of Time network bypass.
Changes: AMD Vulkan policies and query streaming
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AMD shader and draw policies src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/pipeline_optimization.h, src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/submission_policy.h, src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp
The AMD proprietary-driver shader hash list gains one entry. Native rendering uses a 512-draw budget for that driver unless a valid environment setting overrides it.
A compute pass dispatches the query availability shader. The shader writes available query counts or 1024 when neither availability word is set.
Query reads and presync copies src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_query_cache.cpp
AMD proprietary query reads check availability without waiting. Presync copies merged query runs, optionally resolves availability, and uses a growable availability-buffer pool.
Texture unswizzling
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Parallel unswizzle line processing src/video_core/textures/decoders.h, src/video_core/textures/decoders.cpp, src/video_core/texture_cache/texture_cache.h
A worker pool processes qualifying unswizzle line ranges in chunks. TextureCache prepares the pool during construction. Other cases process the full range on the caller.
Ocarina of Time bypass state access
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Use the bypass state pointer src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp
BypassOotNetwork uses the pointer returned by OotNetworkBypass() for target access and output replacement state. The copy result and return behavior remain unchanged.
This change improves AMD GPU performance for Ocarina of Time. The remaining notes are minor hardening suggestions and do not block merge. GPU behavior was only tested by the author on the hardware they had.
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Cross-device regression in BuiltPipeline:static const bool discard_native = [this] { ... device.GetDriverID() ... }(); caches the AMD-driver decision for the first PipelineCache instance that calls it, not the current renderer. If a user changes Vulkan GPU without restarting Lichii (e.g. AMD → NVIDIA or vice versa), subsequent games retain the first GPU's async-draw policy: missing draws on the second GPU, or renewed long stalls on AMD.
Please evaluate the driver default per PipelineCache instance (or directly per call), with the environment override preserved. A two-renderer synthetic test with different driver IDs would catch this. Static review only; no gameplay test.
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- Around line 263-274: Update the GpuSplit fast path before split.Publish() and
split.NoteSync() so it cannot proceed based on a matching semaphore value while
a queued WriteLong query may overwrite that page. Track pending query writes and
reject the shortcut when one is relevant, or drain them before checking;
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- Line 1216: Resolve discard_native per PipelineCache instance instead of using
function-local static storage, so the driver-specific setting reflects each
cache’s device.GetDriverID(). Update the surrounding PipelineCache method while
preserving the existing driver-selection logic.
- Around line 1218-1220: Change the default value of enabled in the driver-based
fallback so AMD proprietary devices do not opt into the discard behavior
automatically; preserve explicit configuration through value, and keep the
discard policy opt-in until resource-producing draws are protected from being
dropped.
Review comments at @src/video_core/texture_cache/texture_cache.h:
- Line 273: Update the max_critical calculation to use an uncapped device-memory
value instead of runtime.GetDeviceLocalMemory(), whose value is capped;
establish that the replacement has the expected runtime scale before applying
the existing three-fifths calculation. Preserve the existing budget safeguards
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- Around line 75-80: Update `LinePool::~LinePool` to prevent workers from
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Fixed in 249eaa7. The front now notes the address of every release it sends that can write a semaphore word (puller WriteLong and 3D report_semaphore release/report-only: GpuSplit::NoteSemaphoreWrite), and the early acquire is only taken when SemaphoreWritePending(address) is false, i.e. the back has already executed the last such write. Otherwise it drains as before.
- Drop the AMD default for native draw discard: a skipped native draw
can write persistent resources; EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1 stays opt-in
(and evaluating the default per PipelineCache is moot).
- puller: the early acquire also requires that no release to the
semaphore is still queued for the back. The front notes the address
of each puller WriteLong and each 3D report release/report it sends
(GpuSplit::NoteSemaphoreWrite / SemaphoreWritePending).
- texture_cache: derive the larger cap from the driver's memory budget;
GetDeviceLocalMemory is capped at 7 GiB outside the aggressive VRAM
mode, which left the cap at 5 GiB on 16 GB cards.
- decoders: request the helper threads' stop under the pool mutex and
join them in the destructor, so a worker cannot miss the wakeup.
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video_core, vulkan: AMD and split GPU thread fixes for Ocarina of Time (+40-70% FPS on RX 9070 XT)
video_core, vulkan: AMD and split GPU thread fixes for Ocarina of Time
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Fixed in 249eaa7. The front now notes the address of every release it sends that can write a semaphore word (puller WriteLong and 3D report_semaphore release/report-only: GpuSplit::NoteSemaphoreWrite), and the early acquire is only taken when SemaphoreWritePending(address) is false, i.e. the back has already executed the last such write. Otherwise it drains as before.
@RomainROCH thanks, good catch. Resolved in 249eaa7 by dropping the AMD default for native draw discard altogether (a skipped native draw can write persistent resources, see the CodeRabbit thread), so the static per-driver decision is gone and EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD keeps upstream's opt-in behaviour. The branch also merges current nx2 (no conflicts now). Retested in game on the same spots and run: same frame rates, no visual regression.
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- Around line 267-279: Update the fast-acquire path around
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Review found queued writes the shortcut does not see (SEM_EXECUTE
releases, DMA engine clears, compute QMD releases). Covering them all
would leave it almost never taken for ~1 FPS, so the acquire drains as
upstream again; the pending-write tracking it needed goes too.
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RX 9060 XT: same-session A/B/A results for an availability-based query experiment
I tested a local experiment inspired by #573 on Windows, RX 9060 XT 16 GB, Ryzen 7 5700X, Vulkan (driver Vulkan version 2.0.416), resolution 1x.
Important: this is a modified Frizti v3 build (base 72e5ad6), NOT a test of this PR branch or the latest release. Only the query experiment was toggled inside the same executable. Other local AMD changes, cooperative HMMA, split=0, draw budget 512, texture cache thresholds 8448/9216 MiB and the external Dynamic FPS mod remained unchanged.
Link and the camera stayed fixed in a slow area of Kokiri Forest. Each stage used a 3-second warm-up and four 2-second FPS windows from the debug server; values below are stage medians.
Query mode
Control before
Enabled
Control after
Consumer-filtered
18.46
27.43
18.20
Broader experimental mode
18.21
27.42
17.96
The filtered mode gained 49.7% versus the mean of its two control medians. Broader eligibility showed no additional benefit in this scene. These are short tests, not long-run benchmarks.
Implementation difference: eligible direct single-slot occlusion queries use 64_BIT|WITH_AVAILABILITY without WAIT, then a compute resolver selects the real result when available or 1024 otherwise. GPU and CPU consumers receive the same resolved snapshot. Carry, invalidated/rewritten and fence queries keep the exact path. Completion and generation/lifetime checks remain. This is still an approximation when results are unavailable; consumer classification is observational, not a general proof.
The completed roughly 25-minute session logged zero mode1 fallback selections across 255 reporting windows (31,314,042 ready results counted in those windows). This does not prove correctness or cover future scenes.
During later exploration I observed one brief black frame, transient missing textures/changed brightness that disappeared after leaving and returning, and possibly faster-than-normal animation. Causes remain unconfirmed; the external Dynamic FPS mod is active. I am not claiming full visual correctness or correct game speed.
An earlier exact-run-only experiment retaining WAIT avoided only 0.062% of dense-copy slots and did not establish an FPS gain. The availability-based path produced the repeatable gain above.
Net diff of zortos293#573 by sanchodecuba11-del at 07287cc, still
open upstream: no stall per samples query copy, texture budget cap, one more
unoptimized compute pipeline, submit every 512 draws on AMD's driver, and
threaded large unswizzles.
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@Savulska thank you for testing this and for the careful A/B/A numbers, and for pointing out the Vulkan spec issue with relying on unavailable slots after a copy without WAIT_BIT. I'll look into the availability-based approach you describe.
For what it's worth, I don't use any mods on my side, so the brief black frame and texture/brightness changes you saw may come from the Dynamic FPS mod rather than this change. Thanks again, I'll run more tests in that direction.
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…shader, parallel unswizzles
From open zortos293/Lichii pull request zortos293#573 (sanchodecuba11-del), measured on an
RX 9070 XT with driver 2.0.416 in Kokiri Forest:
- AMD's proprietary driver submits every 512 draws instead of 128
(EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWS still decides): each submission costs much more there.
- compute shader e0a992208d87eeb8 is built without driver optimization on AMD
(1.3-4 s stalls).
- unswizzles of 1 MiB or more are split by lines over up to four helper threads
plus the caller (new textures took ~11% of the split back thread).
Its texture cache budget change matches ours (thresholds already follow 60% of
the driver budget), and its query copy change is replaced here by answering
Ocarina's occlusion reports on the host.
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On AMD's driver the samples queries were copied without WAIT_BIT over
slots preset to 1024, relying on the copy leaving unavailable slots
untouched, which the Vulkan spec leaves undefined. Copy them with
64_BIT | WITH_AVAILABILITY instead and resolve each slot on the GPU
(resolve_query_availability.comp, QueryAvailabilityResolvePass): its
count when it had landed, 1024 samples (visible) otherwise. Approach
from Savulska's test on zortos293#573.
RX 9070 XT, same MSVC build: 50 -> 56.7 FPS under the Deku Tree, 24 ->
25.0 at the slow Kokiri spot, the same in motion.
EDEN_NX2_QUERY_AVAILABILITY=0 keeps the preset method for A/B.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Independent test on an RX 9060 XT (RDNA4), Windows, MinGW/Clang build, on nx2 92f0212. Ocarina of Time, Kokiri Forest from the start position:
Build
Start view
Camera turn
Short walk
nx2
19.4 fps
10–59 fps
18.9 fps
nx2 + this PR's vk_query_cache.cpp only
36.9 fps
35–59 fps
49.4 fps
nx2 + this PR
38.6 fps
36–59 fps
48.9 fps
No missing or flickering objects in the screenshots. I had a simpler local fix for the same stall (a barrier before the copy and no WAIT_BIT): same speed, but it doesn't handle late results the way this PR does, so I'm not opening it separately.
…ixes for Ocarina) into amd
Conflicts resolved:
- vk_query_cache: zortos293#573's synced-slot copy, with the 1024-sample preset and no WAIT_BIT on
AMD's proprietary driver, replaces zortos293#679's wait-on-last copy (zortos293#573 is measured on an RX 9070 XT,
zortos293#679 was not run on AMD). RADV now copies each synced run with WAIT_BIT.
- vk_rasterizer: the AMD 512-draw default feeds main's static native budget, so
EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_AT_PASS_END uses it too; EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWS still overrides.
- texture_cache: the cap is max(5 GiB x resolution scale squared, 3/5 of the driver budget).
… cache cap
vk_query_cache: zortos293#679's wait on the newest query is applied to the synced runs
of each bank on the drivers that don't resolve availability (AMD open source);
AMD's proprietary driver keeps the copy without waits resolved from each
slot's availability. The texture cache cap is dropped: at 8 GB (5 GiB cap)
Ocarina of Time ran as fast as with ~9 GiB, and the earlier 14 -> 24 FPS
included the shader cache warming up.
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…nditionally
The A/B switch against zortos293#679's copy is gone: on an RX 9070 XT (2.0.416, 8 GB
simulated) it gave 54 FPS under the Deku tree and a less steady run through
Kokiri Forest, this copy 56-58 FPS and a steadier run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dropped the texture cache cap. After more investigation and testing, with the card limited to 8 GB instead of 16 GB (EDEN_NX2_VRAM_LIMIT_MIB=8192, so the 5 GiB cap), the game ran as fast as with the raised cap: the 14 -> 24 FPS given for it came from the shader cache warming up on the first run, not from the cap.
A/B in one build on the RX 9070 XT (driver 2.0.416, MSVC Release, simulated 8 GB):
Both fix the stall the old copy had (9 FPS). The village spot is CPU-bound (the GPU is busy ~12 ms of a ~42 ms frame), which is why the two are even there.
Built the way the release builds are (clang-cl, ThinLTO, lichii-windows.profdata), my local branch reaches ~31 FPS at the village spot and stays around 30 FPS or more running through the forest. That branch adds EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1 and some local experiments, so it's an indication rather than a measurement of this PR.
Thanks @estevanbs for the independent RX 9060 XT numbers, and @Reiixan for including it in the #408 runs. The description is updated.
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- Around line 419-421: Update the availability handling around
availability_pass->Resolve so gap slots remain available with a zero count after
resolution, rather than being rewritten to a nonzero value. Preserve normal
resolution for actual query slots and ensure gap values cannot inflate the
prefix scan’s guest-visible counts.
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The wide copy of a bank's samples queries waited (WAIT_BIT) on every slot of the span, also
on slots no query ended, which stalled the GPU each time on AMD's driver. Only the runs of
the queries being synced are copied now and the gaps between them are zeroed.
On AMD's proprietary driver a result can land after the copy even behind a barrier on all
prior work, so the slots are copied without WAIT_BIT together with their availability word,
and a compute pass (resolve_query_availability.comp) resolves each slot to its count when it
had landed and to 1024 samples (visible) otherwise. Gap slots are marked available with a
zero count so the prefix scan of multi-slot queries stays exact. The CPU-side Sync reads the
same way. Other drivers keep the copy with WAIT_BIT, AMD's open source driver keeps zortos293#679's
wait on the newest query of each run.
Ocarina of Time, RX 9070 XT + Ryzen 7 5800X, driver 2.0.416 (PR author): Kokiri Forest
9 -> 22 fps; Great Deku Tree 54 (zortos293#679's copy) -> 56-58 fps. RX 9060 XT (estevanbs):
Kokiri start 19.4 -> 36.9 fps with this change alone.
Ported from zortos293#573 by `sanchodecuba11-del` (availability resolve after `Savulska`'s test).
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…AMD's driver
Ocarina of Time's Kokiri Forest compute shader stalled for 1.3-4 s while AMD's proprietary
driver optimized it (RX 9070 XT, driver 2.0.416).
Ported from zortos293#573 by `sanchodecuba11-del`.
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Each submission costs much more on AMD's proprietary driver. Ocarina of Time, RX 9070 XT +
Ryzen 7 5800X, driver 2.0.416 (PR author): every 256 draws instead of 128 gave +10-12 fps
where it was already fast, every 512 a further 35 -> 50 fps at the Great Deku Tree.
EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWS still overrides it; other drivers keep 128. The driver decision is
SubmissionPolicy::NativeBudget, covered by a unit test.
Ported from zortos293#573 by `sanchodecuba11-del`.
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Unswizzles of 1 MiB or more are split by lines over a quarter of the host threads (at most 4)
plus the caller, which waits for all of them; each (slice, line) writes its own bytes, so the
result is the same. A second caller while the pool is busy unswizzles on its own thread. The
pool's destructor requests the stop under its mutex so no worker misses the wakeup (review).
Ocarina of Time, RX 9070 XT + Ryzen 7 5800X (PR author): new textures while running took ~11%
of the split back thread; +2-4 fps running, +1-2 standing, fewer drops. 6 threads or a 256 KiB
threshold made busy spots drop harder.
Ported from zortos293#573 by `sanchodecuba11-del`.
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…is set
RasterizerVulkan::Draw checked ten debug switches on every draw before
PrepareDraw: TraceWindowTarget (it read registers and three function
statics before its own !trace test), CB24, TRACE_VS, the after-upscale
trace (an atomic load), the VS skip list and the RT trace. PrepareDraw
added more after Configure: pending-write trace, render state, render
trace and the indirect readback. Each one is a static-guard load and a
branch, and the back thread runs this ~90,000 times a second in Ocarina
of Time (Lichii zortos293#573's measurement).
The rasterizer now reads all eight switches once when it is made
(VideoCommon::DrawDebugSwitches, after nx2_switches.txt is in the
environment). The hooks moved into two out-of-line functions,
DrawDebugHooks and DrawDebugHooksConfigured, behind that single member.
Each hook keeps its own switch test, so the hooks behave as before when
their switch is set. The frame dump stays outside the gate, since the
debug server can start a capture at run time.
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UnswizzleTexture and SwizzleTexture widen to 16-byte units when a row
allows it. Those units are contiguous in a GOB, at offsets that depend only
on their row in the GOB and on which of the row's four units they are, and
the GOB's own offset is a multiple of GOB_SIZE, so the native tiling's swap
of bits 5 and 6 only moves units within it. The 16-byte path now looks the
32 offsets up in a table instead of recomputing the swizzled offset and the
native swap for every unit.
1024x1024 RGBA8 on an i5-12400F: 15.8 -> 21.8 GB/s, with native tiling
12.2 -> 20.7 GB/s. A new test compares both directions with a block linear
address written out bit by bit, across bytes per pixel, partial GOBs, block
heights and depths, depth, stride alignment and native tiling; it passes on
the old code as well.
Ported from zortos293#784. Merged with zortos293#573's line split (ba68891): the
16-byte path runs inside the per-line lambda, so large unswizzles keep
going over the helper threads.
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Experiment switch for RADV. The AMD drivers already wait on the newest query of a range and copy
the rest without the wait, because queries complete in order. oot-bc250 fd0431b497 and fe7bbddc39
(the PR zortos293#573 gates extended to RADV) attack the same per-query copy wait.
…is set
RasterizerVulkan::Draw checked ten debug switches on every draw before
PrepareDraw: TraceWindowTarget (it read registers and three function
statics before its own !trace test), CB24, TRACE_VS, the after-upscale
trace (an atomic load), the VS skip list and the RT trace. PrepareDraw
added more after Configure: pending-write trace, render state, render
trace and the indirect readback. Each one is a static-guard load and a
branch, and the back thread runs this ~90,000 times a second in Ocarina
of Time (Lichii zortos293#573's measurement).
The rasterizer now reads all eight switches once when it is made
(VideoCommon::DrawDebugSwitches, after nx2_switches.txt is in the
environment). The hooks moved into two out-of-line functions,
DrawDebugHooks and DrawDebugHooksConfigured, behind that single member.
Each hook keeps its own switch test, so the hooks behave as before when
their switch is set. The frame dump stays outside the gate, since the
debug server can start a capture at run time.
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UnswizzleTexture and SwizzleTexture widen to 16-byte units when a row
allows it. Those units are contiguous in a GOB, at offsets that depend only
on their row in the GOB and on which of the row's four units they are, and
the GOB's own offset is a multiple of GOB_SIZE, so the native tiling's swap
of bits 5 and 6 only moves units within it. The 16-byte path now looks the
32 offsets up in a table instead of recomputing the swizzled offset and the
native swap for every unit.
1024x1024 RGBA8 on an i5-12400F: 15.8 -> 21.8 GB/s, with native tiling
12.2 -> 20.7 GB/s. A new test compares both directions with a block linear
address written out bit by bit, across bytes per pixel, partial GOBs, block
heights and depths, depth, stride alignment and native tiling; it passes on
the old code as well.
Ported from zortos293#784. Merged with zortos293#573's line split (ba68891): the
16-byte path runs inside the per-line lambda, so large unswizzles keep
going over the helper threads.
(cherry picked from commit d4208a6)
Tested on top of #805 (jpkto's branch at f01be636d, today's nx2), RX 9070 XT, Ryzen 7 5800X, driver 2.0.416, clang-cl ThinLTO PGO. One build, A/B with a local-only switch that turns this PR's additions off:
Movement is a bit steadier with this PR. The first hit of a fight hitched once with it, not with #805 alone; I'm looking into it.
So the two stack: #805 removes the waits between the guest CPU and the GPU threads, and this PR mostly helps busy, moving scenes on AMD (512-draw submissions, the query copy without waits).
At most 4 and a quarter of the host threads, and only the physical cores past the 6 the
guest cores and the GPU threads keep busy. On a 6-core Ryzen 5 5500 (zortos293#599) the 3 workers
competed with them: no gain and slower movies. An 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X now gets 2.
The threads start with the texture cache instead of at the first large unswizzle.
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…ty copy
zortos293#679's wait on the newest query, kept with the availability resolve on AMD's proprietary
driver: the newest result is copied with the wait, the rest without it after a barrier,
so fewer results come in late and resolve to "visible". On top of zortos293#805 on an RX 9070 XT,
Ocarina of Time no longer fell below 30 FPS while running, steadier in motion.
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vulkan: import the easy AMD fixes from the CheezerWheezer fork survey (EGLA-67) #679's wait on the newest query, kept with the availability resolve (57bc26a42): fewer results come in late, so fewer occluded objects are drawn. Steadier in motion: Ocarina no longer fell below 30 FPS while running, and a spot that dropped to 25 FPS now holds 30.
Thanks to @jpkto for #805: decoupling the split threads is what this PR was missing, and the two stack well on RDNA4. Thanks also to #679 and the CheezerWheezer fork survey it imports, for the newest-query wait that the second change reuses.
…or idle and clears
Three ends of a render pass that Ocarina of Time hits often:
- A submission at the draw budget ended the pass and dropped all recorded state (~400 pass
ends a second). While a pass is open it now waits for a draw that finds the pass ended, for
at most four budgets (SubmissionPolicy::Advance, unit-tested; AMD's 512-draw budget from zortos293#573
is the base).
- A wait for idle between draws of one pass ended it (~1,200 a second). With no storage or
transform feedback writes in the pass and no dispatch since the last real wait, the draws'
attachment writes are covered by the deferred fragment barrier and the pass end's barrier.
- A full clear while another framebuffer's pass is open began its own pass with a load and
cleared inside it; it now ends the other pass and becomes the next pass's load-op clear.
(Scheduler::RenderPassMatches tells the passes apart.)
The PR's EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_AT_PASS_END, EDEN_NX2_WFI_DEFER and EDEN_NX2_CLEAR_DEFER kill switches
are dropped. No per-change fps number (PR waves 4-5).
Ported from zortos293#717 by `stephenjayakar`.
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88-107: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Low value
Add a bound check for the AMD Sync stack buffer.
values holds BANK_SIZE entries. size comes from the caller. ApplyBanksWideOp caps size at the bank size, so the current call path is safe. The AMD branch has no local guard, though. A larger size would write past values. Add an assert to document the contract.
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Add an assertion in the AMD branch of the Sync flow, before `GetQueryResults`
uses the fixed-size `values` buffer, to enforce that `start + size` does not
exceed `BANK_SIZE`. Preserve the existing query and result-handling behavior.
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Handle a non-numeric EDEN_NX2_UNSWIZZLE_THREADS value explicitly.
std::atoi returns 0 for invalid text, so the pool silently runs with no workers. A negative value gives the same result. This is a test-only override, so the impact is small. The std::max(0, ...) clamp already covers the negative case.
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Update parsing of EDEN_NX2_UNSWIZZLE_THREADS so invalid non-numeric text emits a
warning through the existing logging facility instead of silently becoming zero;
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Review comments at @src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_query_cache.cpp:
- Around line 88-107: Add an assertion in the AMD branch of the Sync flow,
before `GetQueryResults` uses the fixed-size `values` buffer, to enforce that
`start + size` does not exceed `BANK_SIZE`. Preserve the existing query and
result-handling behavior.
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- Line 77: Update parsing of EDEN_NX2_UNSWIZZLE_THREADS so invalid non-numeric
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becoming zero; preserve the current negative-value clamp and maximum of 8
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…or idle and clears
Three ends of a render pass that Ocarina of Time hits often:
- A submission at the draw budget ended the pass and dropped all recorded state (~400 pass
ends a second). While a pass is open it now waits for a draw that finds the pass ended, for
at most four budgets (SubmissionPolicy::Advance, unit-tested; AMD's 512-draw budget from zortos293#573
is the base).
- A wait for idle between draws of one pass ended it (~1,200 a second). With no storage or
transform feedback writes in the pass and no dispatch since the last real wait, the draws'
attachment writes are covered by the deferred fragment barrier and the pass end's barrier.
- A full clear while another framebuffer's pass is open began its own pass with a load and
cleared inside it; it now ends the other pass and becomes the next pass's load-op clear.
(Scheduler::RenderPassMatches tells the passes apart.)
The PR's EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_AT_PASS_END, EDEN_NX2_WFI_DEFER and EDEN_NX2_CLEAR_DEFER kill switches
are dropped. No per-change fps number (PR waves 4-5).
Ported from zortos293#717 by `stephenjayakar`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…or idle and clears
Three ends of a render pass that Ocarina of Time hits often:
- A submission at the draw budget ended the pass and dropped all recorded state (~400 pass
ends a second). While a pass is open it now waits for a draw that finds the pass ended, for
at most four budgets (SubmissionPolicy::Advance, unit-tested; AMD's 512-draw budget from zortos293#573
is the base).
- A wait for idle between draws of one pass ended it (~1,200 a second). With no storage or
transform feedback writes in the pass and no dispatch since the last real wait, the draws'
attachment writes are covered by the deferred fragment barrier and the pass end's barrier.
- A full clear while another framebuffer's pass is open began its own pass with a load and
cleared inside it; it now ends the other pass and becomes the next pass's load-op clear.
(Scheduler::RenderPassMatches tells the passes apart.)
The PR's EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_AT_PASS_END, EDEN_NX2_WFI_DEFER and EDEN_NX2_CLEAR_DEFER kill switches
are dropped. No per-change fps number (PR waves 4-5).
Ported from zortos293#717 by `stephenjayakar`.
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Unswizzle helper threads: in-session A/B on a PGO build, 2 threads 39.2 fps against 40.4 fps without them; also negative under RADV.
Kokiri Forest shader compiled without optimization: the cold test was inconclusive, and the new shader cache may make it unnecessary.
Why the driver gate:#905 (thanks @the-cashman) measured this PR under RADV on an RX 7900 XT, and it lost in every pair. Two of its parts ran on every driver: the per-slot query copy and the unswizzle threads. The mini PRs keep other drivers on the current code.
@lucastaonline, #1069 merges this PR: #1087 and #1088 carry the same query and submission code for AMD's proprietary driver, and the dropped parts were measured as neutral or worse. Your 34.3 -> 53.0 fps on an RX 9070 XT matches what I measured with the same stack (+24% at the Kokiri Forest cave on an 8 GB card limit).
Thanks to #805 for the split GPU thread these measurements were taken on, and to #679 for the newest-query wait reused in #1087.
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All numbers come from that machine, measured through the debug server at fixed spots in Kokiri Forest. Every change was A/B tested in game behind an environment switch first; the switches are gone here, and each change is unconditional (or AMD-only where AMD's driver is what needs it). Since the last update the branch also runs with a simulated 8 GB card (
EDEN_NX2_VRAM_LIMIT_MIB=8192): same frame rates as with 16 GB.Results
MSVC Release build of this branch:
Built the way the release builds are (clang-cl, ThinLTO,
lichii-windows.profdata), my local branch reaches ~31 FPS at the village spot and stays at ~30 FPS or more running through the forest (47-50 FPS where the MSVC build shows 43). That branch is this PR plusEDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1and a few local experiments that are not in this PR, with the earlier preset variant of change 1, so take it as an indication of what the release builds should get, not as a measurement of this branch.Independent test by @estevanbs on an RX 9060 XT (RDNA4) over nx2
92f0212: 19.4 -> 38.6 FPS from the Kokiri start position and 18.9 -> 48.9 FPS on a short walk, no missing or flickering objects.Changes
WAIT_BIT, on slots no query ended). On AMD's proprietary driver results can land after the copy even behind a barrier on all prior work (each copy still waited ~9.6 ms), so the slots are copied withoutWAIT_BIT, with each slot's availability word, and a small compute pass resolves each slot to its count when it had landed and to 1024 samples otherwise: a late result reads as visible (an occluded object drawn) rather than hidden (the scene vanished) or a stall. The availability word decides, not what the copy writes for an unavailable query, which the Vulkan spec leaves undefined (approach from @Savulska's test in this thread). 9 -> 22 FPS in Kokiri Forest at the time. vulkan: import the easy AMD fixes from the CheezerWheezer fork survey (EGLA-67) #679's wait on the newest query is kept for the other drivers it targets (AMD open source), applied to these runs; on the RX 9070 XT it gave 54 FPS under the Deku Tree against 56-58 here, and a less steady run through the forest.e0a992208d87eeb8unoptimized on AMD (1.3-4 s stalls in Kokiri Forest).EDEN_NX2_FLUSH_DRAWSstill decides). Each submission costs much more on AMD: 256 gave +10-12 FPS where it was already fast, 512 a further 35 -> 50 FPS at the Deku Tree.Dropped since the first version: the texture cache cap. After more investigation and testing, with the card limited to 8 GB instead of 16 GB (5 GiB cap), the game ran as fast as with the raised cap: the 14 -> 24 FPS given for it came from the shader cache warming up on the first run, not from the cap.
Recommended on AMD (not in this PR)
EDEN_NX2_ASYNC_DISCARD=1: without it each new pipeline froze Ocarina of Time for 1-1.4 s on AMD while running into a new area. It stays opt-in (a skipped native draw can write persistent resources).What limits it now (for whoever looks next)
At the village spot the GPU is busy ~12 ms of a ~42 ms frame (GPU timestamps,
EDEN_DKB_FRAME_TRACE=1): the limit is the CPU side. The split front and back mostly alternate there (~2,400 drains a second, the back idle ~20% of the time), and the back spends ~9 us per draw on ~90,000 draws a second.Tried and dropped since the first version: letting the back decide the occlusion macro's
render_enable.modeitself (macro0xe2creads one report and writes0x556 = count != 0; it removed the front's waits on those reads but not the alternation), skipping drains on semaphore acquires (compute, copy engine and some puller releases aren't tracked: heavy stutter), deferring wait-for-idle to the end of the render pass (more render passes, slower in motion). Earlier: pinning the GPU threads, pre-creating render targets, a render target reuse pool, exact occlusion results, macros on the back (EDEN_NX2_SPLIT=1).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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