vkCreatePipelineCache

To create pipeline cache objects, call:

VkResult vkCreatePipelineCache(
    VkDevice device,
    const VkPipelineCacheCreateInfo* pCreateInfo,
    const VkAllocationCallbacks* pAllocator,
    VkPipelineCache* pPipelineCache);

• device is the logical device that creates the pipeline cache object.
• pCreateInfo is a pointer to a VkPipelineCacheCreateInfo structure containing initial parameters for the pipeline cache object.
• pAllocator controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.
• pPipelineCache is a pointer to a VkPipelineCache handle in which the resulting pipeline cache object is returned.

Once created, a pipeline cache can be passed to the vkCreateGraphicsPipelines

vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesKHR, vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV, and vkCreateComputePipelines commands. If the pipeline cache passed into these commands is not VK_NULL_HANDLE, the implementation will query it for possible reuse opportunities and update it with new content. The use of the pipeline cache object in these commands is internally synchronized, and the same pipeline cache object can be used in multiple threads simultaneously.

If flags of pCreateInfo includes VK_PIPELINE_CACHE_CREATE_EXTERNALLY_SYNCHRONIZED_BIT, all commands that modify the returned pipeline cache object must be externally synchronized.