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marfrit 373f63a910 Cycle 8 closed: H.264 deblock R8=0.061 RED, opportunistic helper

Phase 6 deliverable: v3d_h264deblock.comp (132 inst, 4 threads,
no spills). Phase 5 REDs applied:
  RED-1: explicit clamp p1'/q1' to [0,255] before uint8 write
  RED-2: bench-enforced m.x >= 4*stride contract

M1: 3-way 4096/4096 bit-exact (QPU vs C ref AND vs NEON).
M2: 5.629 Medge/s isolation → R8 = 0.061 RED (predicted 0.09-0.14).
    Lower than prediction; H.264 deblock has 4 early-return paths +
    2 conditional writes that hurt V3D branchy execution more than
    expected.

M4 same-kernel: NEON-3+QPU 12.81 Medge/s ≈ pure-NEON-4 ~12-15
  (neutral).

M4 MIXED (real H.264 deployment shape): CPU=MC + QPU=h264deblock
  gives CPU MC 25.11 Mblock/s + QPU h264deblock 6.23 Medge/s.
  QPU contribution is essentially unchanged from isolation —
  the cross-substrate contention is gentle (consistent with
  Issue 003's V4 finding).

Verdict: H.264 deblock = opportunistic QPU helper. Same recipe
slot as cycle 5 CDEF. 6 Medge/s helper = 85% of single-NEON-core
deblock capacity, available when CPU is busy with other work.

Cycles 1-8 deployment recipe complete:
  Primary QPU: cycles 1+2+4 (VP9 IDCT/LPF, all bandwidth-bound)
  Primary CPU: cycles 3+6+7 (compute-heavy or trivially fast on NEON)
  Opportunistic helper: cycles 5+8 (CDEF, H.264 deblock)

Phase 9 lessons added:
  - Branchy kernels underperform V3D vs straight-line ones
  - Mixed-kernel helper value scales with isolation M2, not
    same-kernel M4
  - R prediction needs branchiness weight, not just compute density

- src/v3d_h264deblock.comp (132 inst QPU shader)
- tests/bench_v3d_h264deblock.c (3-way M1 + M2 + R classification)
- tests/bench_concurrent_mixed.c extended with K_H264DEBLOCK
- CMakeLists.txt: v3d_h264deblock.spv + bench_v3d_h264deblock
  + h264dsp linked into bench_concurrent_mixed
- docs/k8_h264deblock_phase7.md (full closure with cycles 1-8 recipe)

Next: Phase 8 — V4L2 wrapper / deployment infra. Public API
already exposes recipe-default substrate per kernel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-18 14:44:21 +00:00

shaders

Path B pivot + Phase 0-3 closed with first baseline numbers

2026-05-18 11:30:12 +00:00

.gitkeep

Path B pivot + Phase 0-3 closed with first baseline numbers

2026-05-18 11:30:12 +00:00

bench_concurrent_lpf8.c

Cycle 4 (LPF wd=8) closure: M1=100%, R=0.34, M4=+4.1%, PASS

2026-05-18 12:56:25 +00:00

bench_concurrent_lpf.c

Cycle 2 (LPF) closure: M1''=100%, R''=0.41, M4''=+6.9%, PASS