VK_NV_device_generated_commands_compute

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-07-21

Contributors

• Vikram Kushwaha, NVIDIA
• Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA
• Christoph Kubisch, NVIDIA
• Piers Daniell, NVIDIA
• Daniel Koch, NVIDIA
• Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Valve
• Mike Blumenkrantz, VALVE

Description

This extension allows the device to generate commands for binding compute pipelines, setting push constants and launching compute dispatches.

New Commands

• vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBufferNV
• vkGetPipelineIndirectDeviceAddressNV
• vkGetPipelineIndirectMemoryRequirementsNV

New Structures

• VkBindPipelineIndirectCommandNV
• VkPipelineIndirectDeviceAddressInfoNV
• Extending VkComputePipelineCreateInfo:
  • VkComputePipelineIndirectBufferInfoNV
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceDeviceGeneratedCommandsComputeFeaturesNV

New Enum Constants

• VK_NV_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_NV_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkDescriptorSetLayoutCreateFlagBits:
  • VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_INDIRECT_BINDABLE_BIT_NV
• Extending VkIndirectCommandsTokenTypeNV:
  • VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DISPATCH_NV
  • VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PIPELINE_NV
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_COMPUTE_PIPELINE_INDIRECT_BUFFER_INFO_NV
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_FEATURES_NV
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_INDIRECT_DEVICE_ADDRESS_INFO_NV

Version History

• Revision 2, 2023-07-21 (Vikram Kushwaha)
  • Rename vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBuffer to vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBufferNV
• Revision 1, 2023-06-09 (Vikram Kushwaha)
  • First Revision