Handle
VkPipelineLayout
Opaque handle to a pipeline layout object
Access to descriptor sets from a pipeline is accomplished through a pipeline layout. Zero or more descriptor set layouts and zero or more push constant ranges are combined to form a pipeline layout object describing the complete set of resources that can be accessed by a pipeline. The pipeline layout represents a sequence of descriptor sets with each having a specific layout. This sequence of layouts is used to determine the interface between shader stages and shader resources. Each pipeline is created using a pipeline layout.
Pipeline layout objects are represented by VkPipelineLayout handles:
VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkPipelineLayout)