VK_EXT_frame_boundary

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-06-14

Contributors

• James Fitzpatrick, Imagination Technologies
• Hugues Evrard, Google
• Melih Yasin Yalcin, Google
• Andrew Garrard, Imagination Technologies
• Jan-Harald Fredriksen, Arm
• Vassili Nikolaev, NVIDIA
• Ting Wei, Huawei

Description

VK_EXT_frame_boundary is a device extension that helps tools (such as debuggers) to group queue submissions per frames in non-trivial scenarios, typically when vkQueuePresentKHR is not a relevant frame boundary delimiter.

New Structures

• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceFrameBoundaryFeaturesEXT
• Extending VkSubmitInfo, VkSubmitInfo2, VkPresentInfoKHR, VkBindSparseInfo:
  • VkFrameBoundaryEXT

New Enums

• VkFrameBoundaryFlagBitsEXT

New Bitmasks

• VkFrameBoundaryFlagsEXT

New Enum Constants

• VK_EXT_FRAME_BOUNDARY_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_EXT_FRAME_BOUNDARY_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_FRAME_BOUNDARY_EXT
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FRAME_BOUNDARY_FEATURES_EXT

Version History

• Revision 0, 2022-01-14 (Hugues Evard)
  • Initial proposal
• Revision 1, 2023-06-14 (James Fitzpatrick)
  • Initial draft