This abstractio represents the state of the 3D engine at a given draw.
Instead of changing individual bits of the pipeline how it's done in
APIs like D3D11, OpenGL and NVN; on Vulkan we are forced to put
everything together into a single, immutable object.
It takes advantage of the few dynamic states Vulkan offers.
The update descriptor is used to store in flat memory a large chunk of
staging data used to update descriptor sets through templates. It
provides a push interface to easily insert descriptors following the
current pipeline. The order used in the descriptor update template has
to be implicitly followed. We can catch bugs here using validation
layers.
The stream buffer before this commit once it was full (no more bytes to
write before looping) waiting for all previous operations to finish.
This was a temporary solution and had a noticeable performance penalty
in performance (from what a profiler showed).
To avoid this mark with fences usages of the stream buffer and once it
loops wait for them to be signaled. On average this will never wait.
Each fence knows where its usage finishes, resulting in a non-paged
stream buffer.
On the other side, the buffer cache is reimplemented using the generic
buffer cache. It makes use of the staging buffer pool and the new
stream buffer.
* Allocate memory in discrete exponentially increasing chunks until the
128 MiB threshold. Allocations larger thant that increase linearly by
256 MiB (depending on the required size). This allows to use small
allocations for small resources.
* Move memory maps to a RAII abstraction. To optimize for debugging
tools (like RenderDoc) users will map/unmap on usage. If this ever
becomes a noticeable overhead (from my profiling it doesn't) we can
transparently move to persistent memory maps without harming the API,
getting optimal performance for both gameplay and debugging.
* Improve messages on exceptional situations.
* Fix typos "requeriments" -> "requirements".
* Small style changes.
Create a large descriptor pool where we allocate all our descriptors
from. It has to be wide enough to support any pipeline, hence its large
numbers.
If the descritor pool is filled, we allocate more memory at that moment.
This way we can take advantage of permissive drivers like Nvidia's that
allocate more descriptors than what the spec requires.
This commit introduces a mechanism by which shader IR code can be
amended and extended. This useful for track algorithms where certain
information can derived from before the track such as indexes to array
samplers.
The job of this abstraction is to provide staging buffers for temporary
operations. Think of image uploads or buffer uploads to device memory.
It automatically deletes unused buffers.
This object's job is to contain an image and manage its transitions.
Since Nvidia hardware doesn't know what a transition is but Vulkan
requires them anyway, we have to state track image subresources
individually.
To avoid the overhead of tracking each subresource in images with many
subresources (think of cubemap arrays with several mipmaps), this commit
tracks when subresources have diverged. As long as this doesn't happen
we can check the state of the first subresource (that will be shared
with all subresources) and update accordingly.
Image transitions are deferred to the scheduler command buffer.
The intention behind this hasheable structure is to describe the state
of fixed function pipeline state that gets compiled to a single graphics
pipeline state object. This is all dynamic state in OpenGL but Vulkan
wants it in an immutable state, even if hardware can edit it freely.
In this commit the structure is defined in an optimized state (it uses
booleans, has paddings and many data entries that can be packed to
single integers). This is intentional as an initial implementation that
is easier to debug, implement and review. It will be optimized in later
stages, or it might change if Vulkan gets more dynamic states.
ExprCondCode visit implements the generic Visit. Use this instead of
that one.
As an intended side effect this fixes unwritten memory usages in cases
when a negation of a condition code is used.
This allows us to put VKFenceWatch inside a std::vector without storing
it in heap. On move we have to signal the fences where the new protected
resource is, adding some overhead.
VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints allows us to push data to a Vulkan
queue and then query it even after a device loss. This allows us to push
the current pipeline object and see what was the call that killed the
device.
Some games write from fragment shaders to an unexistant framebuffer
attachment or they don't write to one when it exists in the framebuffer.
Fix this by skipping writes or adding zeroes.
These shaders are used to specify code that is not dynamically generated
in the Vulkan backend. Instead of packing it inside the build system,
it's manually built and copied to the C++ file to avoid adding
unnecessary build time dependencies.
quad_array should be dropped in the future since it can be emulated with
a memory pool generated from the CPU.
Add an extra argument to query device capabilities in the future. The
intention behind this is to use native quads, quad strips, line loops
and polygons if these are released for Vulkan.
The OpenGL spec defines GL_CLAMP's formula similarly to CLAMP_TO_EDGE
and CLAMP_TO_BORDER depending on the filter mode used. It doesn't
exactly behave like this, but it's the closest we can get with what
Vulkan offers without emulating it by injecting shader code.
Introduce a worker thread approach for delegating Vulkan work derived
from dxvk's approach. https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
Now that the scheduler is what handles all Vulkan work related to
command streaming, store state tracking in itself. This way we can know
when to reupload Vulkan dynamic state to the queue (since this one is
invalidated between command buffers unlike NVN). We can also store the
renderpass state and graphics pipeline bound to avoid redundant binds
and renderpass begins/ends.
