Vulkan-Docs/appendices/VK_KHR_device_group_creation.txt
Jon Leech 22a5a1459f Change log for October 6, 2019 Vulkan 1.1.124 spec update:
* Update release number to 124.

Github Issues:

  * Fix Makefile SPECREMARK macro to work when not building in a git tree
    (public issue 992).
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    slink:VkSubpassDescription2KHR valid usage statements (public pull
    request 1028).
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Internal Issues:

  * Fix markup in Valid Usage statement for slink:VkCreateFramebuffer
    (internal issue 1823).
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    order_>> section to the synchronization chapter which describes in
    detail the ordering guarantees provided by the API between fence and
    semaphore signal operations (internal merge request 3368).
  * Move generated `appendix/meta/` files into the Makefile GENERATED
    directory (internal merge request 3381).

New Extensions

  * `<<VK_KHR_shader_clock>>`
  * `<<VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore>>`
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// Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
include::{generated}/meta/VK_KHR_device_group_creation.txt[]
*Last Modified Date*::
2016-10-19
*IP Status*::
No known IP claims.
*Interactions and External Dependencies*::
- Promoted to Vulkan 1.1 Core
*Contributors*::
- Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA
This extension provides instance-level commands to enumerate groups of
physical devices, and to create a logical device from a subset of one of
those groups.
Such a logical device can then be used with new features in the
`<<VK_KHR_device_group>>` extension.
=== New Object Types
None.
=== New Enum Constants
* Extending elink:VkStructureType:
** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_GROUP_PROPERTIES_KHR
** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_GROUP_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO_KHR
* Extending elink:VkMemoryHeapFlagBits
** ename:VK_MEMORY_HEAP_MULTI_INSTANCE_BIT_KHR
=== New Enums
None.
=== New Structures
* slink:VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHR
* slink:VkDeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfoKHR
=== New Functions
* flink:vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR
=== Promotion to Vulkan 1.1
All functionality in this extension is included in core Vulkan 1.1, with the
KHR suffix omitted.
The original type, enum and command names are still available as aliases of
the core functionality.
=== Issues
None.
=== Examples
[source,c++]
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VkDeviceCreateInfo devCreateInfo = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO };
// (not shown) fill out devCreateInfo as usual.
uint32_t deviceGroupCount = 0;
VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHR *props = NULL;
// Query the number of device groups
vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR(g_vkInstance, &deviceGroupCount, NULL);
// Allocate and initialize structures to query the device groups
props = (VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHR *)malloc(deviceGroupCount*sizeof(VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHR));
for (i = 0; i < deviceGroupCount; ++i) {
props[i].sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_GROUP_PROPERTIES_KHR;
props[i].pNext = NULL;
}
vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR(g_vkInstance, &deviceGroupCount, props);
// If the first device group has more than one physical device. create
// a logical device using all of the physical devices.
VkDeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfoKHR deviceGroupInfo = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_GROUP_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO_KHR };
if (props[0].physicalDeviceCount > 1) {
deviceGroupInfo.physicalDeviceCount = props[0].physicalDeviceCount;
deviceGroupInfo.pPhysicalDevices = props[0].physicalDevices;
devCreateInfo.pNext = &deviceGroupInfo;
}
vkCreateDevice(props[0].physicalDevices[0], &devCreateInfo, NULL, &g_vkDevice);
free(props);
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=== Version History
* Revision 1, 2016-10-19 (Jeff Bolz)
- Internal revisions