Package org.lwjgl.vulkan

Class NVDedicatedAllocation

  • public final class NVDedicatedAllocation
extends java.lang.Object
    This extension allows device memory to be allocated for a particular buffer or image resource, which on some devices can significantly improve the performance of that resource. Normal device memory allocations must support memory aliasing and sparse binding, which could interfere with optimizations like framebuffer compression or efficient page table usage. This is important for render targets and very large resources, but need not (and probably should not) be used for smaller resources that can benefit from suballocation.

    This extension adds a few small structures to resource creation and memory allocation: a new structure that flags whether am image/buffer will have a dedicated allocation, and a structure indicating the image or buffer that an allocation will be bound to.

    Examples
    
     // Create an image with
     // VkDedicatedAllocationImageCreateInfoNV::dedicatedAllocation
     // set to VK_TRUE
 
     VkDedicatedAllocationImageCreateInfoNV dedicatedImageInfo =
     {
         VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEDICATED_ALLOCATION_IMAGE_CREATE_INFO_NV,            // sType
         NULL,                                                                   // pNext
         VK_TRUE,                                                                // dedicatedAllocation
     };
 
     VkImageCreateInfo imageCreateInfo =
     {
         VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_CREATE_INFO,    // sType
         &dedicatedImageInfo                     // pNext
         // Other members set as usual
     };
 
     VkImage image;
     VkResult result = vkCreateImage(
         device,
         &imageCreateInfo,
         NULL,                       // pAllocator
         &image);
 
     VkMemoryRequirements memoryRequirements;
     vkGetImageMemoryRequirements(
         device,
         image,
         &memoryRequirements);
 
     // Allocate memory with VkDedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV::image
     // pointing to the image we are allocating the memory for
 
     VkDedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV dedicatedInfo =
     {
         VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEDICATED_ALLOCATION_MEMORY_ALLOCATE_INFO_NV,             // sType
         NULL,                                                                       // pNext
         image,                                                                      // image
         VK_NULL_HANDLE,                                                             // buffer
     };
 
     VkMemoryAllocateInfo memoryAllocateInfo =
     {
         VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_MEMORY_ALLOCATE_INFO,                 // sType
         &dedicatedInfo,                                         // pNext
         memoryRequirements.size,                                // allocationSize
         FindMemoryTypeIndex(memoryRequirements.memoryTypeBits), // memoryTypeIndex
     };
 
     VkDeviceMemory memory;
     vkAllocateMemory(
         device,
         &memoryAllocateInfo,
         NULL,                       // pAllocator
         &memory);
 
     // Bind the image to the memory
 
     vkBindImageMemory(
         device,
         image,
         memory,
         0);
    Name String
    VK_NV_dedicated_allocation
    Extension Type
    Device extension
    Registered Extension Number
    27
    Revision
    1
    Extension and Version Dependencies
    • Requires Vulkan 1.0
    Deprecation state
    Contact
    Last Modified Date
    2016-05-31
    IP Status
    No known IP claims.
    Contributors
    • Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA