This was backported from tmp-vulkan. When disabling the fence check
in ghost it is able to start blender. It will show a black screen
so not usable for users.
This patch will give access to the physical device limits
of the device associated with the context. In vulkan each
device has different limits and the application is
responsible to match these limits as the vulkan driver
just ignores calls that don't match these limits.
Those limits are GPUBackend specific and therefore are not
added to GPU_capabilities.
Pull Request #105125
This patch adds initial support for compute shaders to
the vulkan backend. As the development is oriented to the test-
cases we have the implementation is limited to what is used there.
It has been validated that with this patch that the following test
cases are running as expected
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_vbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ibo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ssbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_storage_buffer_create_update_read`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_2d`
This patch includes:
- Allocating VkBuffer on device.
- Uploading data from CPU to VkBuffer.
- Binding VkBuffer as SSBO to a compute shader.
- Execute compute shader and altering VkBuffer.
- Download the VkBuffer to CPU ram.
- Validate that it worked.
- Use device only vertex buffer as SSBO
- Use device only index buffer as SSBO
- Use device only image buffers
GHOST API has been changed as the original design was created before
we even had support for compute shaders in blender. The function
`GHOST_getVulkanBackbuffer` has been separated to retrieve the command
buffer without a backbuffer (`GHOST_getVulkanCommandBuffer`). In order
to do correct command buffer processing we needed access to the queue
owned by GHOST. This is returned as part of the `GHOST_getVulkanHandles`
function.
Open topics (not considered part of this patch)
- Memory barriers & command buffer encoding
- Indirect compute dispatching
- Rest of the test cases
- Data conversions when requested data format is different than on device.
- GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_1d is supported on AMD devices.
NVIDIA doesn't seem to support 1d textures.
Pull-request: #104518
Compile each static shader using shaderc to Spir-V binaries.
The main goal is to make sure that the GLSL created using ShaderCreateInfo and able to compile to Spir-V.
For the second stage a correct pipeline needs to be created and some shader would need more
adjustments (push constants size).
With this patch future changes to GLSL sources can already be checked against vulkan, without the
backend finished.
Mechanism has been tested using MacOS and MoltenVK. For other OS, we should finetune CMake
files to find the right location to shaderc.
```
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Shader Test compilation result: 463 / 463 passed (skipped 118 for compatibility reasons)
OpenGL backend shader compilation succeeded.
Shader Test compilation result: 529 / 529 passed (skipped 52 for compatibility reasons)
Vulkan backend shader compilation succeeded.
```
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T102760
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16610
Vulkan doesn't have a memory allocator builtin. The application should
provide the memory allocator at runtime. Vulkan Memory Allocator is a
widely used implementation.
Vulkan Memory Allocator is a header only implementation, but the using
application should compile a part in a CPP compile unit. The file
`vk_mem_alloc_impl.cc` and `extern_vulkan_memory_allocator` library
is therefore introduced.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16572
This patch adds a placeholder for the vulkan backend.
When activated (`WITH_VULKAN_BACKEND=On` and `--gpu-backend vulkan`)
it might open a blender screen, but nothing should be visible as
none of the functions are implemented or otherwise crash on a nullptr.
This is expected as this is just a placeholder. The goal is to add shader compilation
+validation to this backend as one of the next steps so we can validate
changes to existing shaders on OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan at the same time.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16338
