Vulkan-Docs/doc/specs/vulkan/appendices/VK_KHX_device_group_creation.txt
Jon Leech b9e9296cd8 Change log for June 24, 2017 Vulkan 1.0.53 spec update:
* Bump API patch number and header version number to 53 for this update.

Github Issues:

Internal Issues:

  * Clarify mappings of coordinates for mutable, compatible image views in
    slink:VkImageViewCreateInfo (internal issue 815).
  * Make ename:VK_BIND_SFR_BIT require a logical device with multiple
    physical devices, so that standard sparse image block dimensions are
    only required on systems that support multi-GPU (internal issue 835).
  * Convert all files from use of // refBegin .. // refEnd comments to
    delimit ref pages, to use of open blocks, and update style guide
    accordingly (internal issue 839).
  * Add valid usage for slink:VkWriteDescriptorSet when performing updates
    to a ename:VK_STORAGE_IMAGE descriptor with layout
    ename:VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_GENERAL.
  * Add a hack to the validity generator script to support an odd
    interaction between flink:vkCmdFillBuffer and an extension (internal
    issue 853).
  * Remove redundant text describing slink:VkBufferCreateInfo::pname:usage,
    which was already covered by implicit valid usage (internal issue 854).
  * Update implicit validity generator script to properly handle the
    pname:sType and pname:pNext members of "returnedonly" structures
    (internal issue 874).
  * Note that slink:VkApplicationInfo::pname:pApplicationName &
    slink:VkApplicationInfo::pname:pEngineName are optional, and add missing
    implicit valid usage statements for flink:vkDestroyInstance.
  * Added missing valid usage for flink:vkCmdWriteTimestamp to require a
    timestamp query pool.
  * Simplify and/or split "`non-atomic`" valid usage statements.

New Extensions:

  * `VK_AMD_gpu_shader_int16`
  * `VK_EXT_blend_operation_advanced`
  * `VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax`
  * `VK_NV_framebuffer_mixed_samples`

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Note: the 1.0.52 spec wasn't published on github, so the 1.0.53 release
combines both change sets.
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Change log for June 13, 2017 Vulkan 1.0.52 spec update:

  * Bump API patch number and header version number to 52 for this update.

Github Issues:

Internal Issues:

  * Clarify behavior when non-coherent memory has
    <<memory-device-unmap-does-not-flush, not been flushed before being
    unmapped>> (internal issue 819).
  * Fix description of code:WorkgroupSize builtin to note it decorates an
    object, not a variable (internal issue 836).
  * Fix asciidoc attributes so that trailing '{plus}' symbols in [eq] style
    equations are rendered properly (internal issue 845).
  * Add language to the "`Extension Handles, Objects, Enums, and Typedefs`"
    section of the Procedures and Conventions document stating that any new
    handle type requires a corresponding entry in the elink:VkObjectType
    enumerated type (internal issue 856).
  * Update style guide to use slink macro for Vulkan handle type names, and
    define narrow conditions under which to use the *name and *text macros
    instead of *link (internal issue 886).
  * Add a dependency of the <<VK_KHX_device_group,VK_KHX_device_group>>
    extension on VK_KHX_device_group_creation to +vk.xml+ and the extension
    appendix.
  * Change the copyright on Vulkan specification asciidoc *source* files to
    CC-BY 4.0, and update the proprietary Khronos copyright applied to the
    generated *output* formats (internal issue 327). This enables broader
    re-use and modification of the Vulkan specification sources, while not
    affecting the Reciprocal IP License between Vulkan Adopters and Working
    Group Members.

New Extensions:

  * `VK_NV_fill_rectangle`
  * `VK_NV_fragment_coverage_to_color`
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// Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
[[VK_KHX_device_group_creation]]
== VK_KHX_device_group_creation
*Name String*::
+VK_KHX_device_group_creation+
*Extension Type*::
Instance extension
*Registered Extension Number*::
71
*Status*::
Draft.
*Last Modified Date*::
2016-10-19
*Revision*::
1
*IP Status*::
No known IP claims.
*Dependencies*::
- This extension is written against version 1.0 of the Vulkan API.
*Contributors*::
- Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA
*Contacts*::
- Jeff Bolz (jbolz 'at' nvidia.com)
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_KHX_device_group extension.
=== New Object Types
None.
=== New Enum Constants
* Extending elink:VkStructureType:
** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_GROUP_PROPERTIES_KHX
* Extending elink:VkMemoryHeapFlagBits
** ename:VK_MEMORY_HEAP_MULTI_INSTANCE_BIT_KHX
=== New Enums
None.
=== New Structures
* slink:VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHX
* slink:VkDeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfoKHX
=== New Functions
* flink:vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHX
=== 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;
VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHX *props = NULL;
// Query the number of device groups
vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHX(g_vkInstance, &deviceGroupCount, NULL);
// Allocate and initialize structures to query the device groups
props = (VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHX *)malloc(deviceGroupCount*sizeof(VkPhysicalDeviceGroupPropertiesKHX));
for (i = 0; i < deviceGroupCount; ++i) {
props[i].sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_GROUP_PROPERTIES_KHX;
props[i].pNext = NULL;
}
vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHX(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.
VkDeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfoKHX deviceGroupInfo = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_GROUP_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO_KHX };
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