Vulkan-Docs/doc/specs/vulkan/appendices/VK_EXT_global_priority.txt

73 lines
2.0 KiB
Plaintext

include::meta/VK_EXT_global_priority.txt[]
*Last Modified Date*::
2017-10-06
*IP Status*::
No known IP claims.
*Contributors*::
- Andres Rodriguez, Valve
- Pierre-Loup Griffais, Valve
- Dan Ginsburg, Valve
- Mitch Singer, AMD
In Vulkan, users can specify device-scope queue priorities.
In some cases it may be useful to extend this concept to a system-wide
scope.
This extension provides a mechanism for caller's to set their system-wide
priority.
The default queue priority is elink:VK_QUEUE_GLOBAL_PRIORITY_MEDIUM.
The driver implementation will attempt to skew hardware resource allocation
in favour of the higher-priority task.
Therefore, higher-priority work may retain similar latency and throughput
characteristics even if the system is congested with lower priority work.
The global priority level of a queue shall take predence over the
per-process queue priority
(sname:VkDeviceQueueCreateInfo::pname:pQueuePriorities).
Abuse of this feature may result in starving the rest of the system from
hardware resources.
Therefore, the driver implementation may deny requests to acquire a priority
above the default priority (elink:VK_QUEUE_GLOBAL_PRIORITY_MEDIUM) if the
caller does not have sufficient privileges.
In this scenario elink:VK_ERROR_NOT_PERMITTED_EXT is returned.
The driver implementation may fail the queue allocation request if resources
required to complete the operation have been exhausted (either by the same
process or a different process).
In this scenario elink:VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED is returned.
=== New Object Types
None.
=== New Enum Constants
* Extending elink:VkStructureType:
** elink:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_QUEUE_GLOBAL_PRIORITY_CREATE_INFO_EXT
* Extending elink:VkResult:
** elink:VK_ERROR_NOT_PERMITTED_EXT
=== New Enums
* elink:VkQueueGlobalPriorityEXT
=== New Structures
* slink:VkDeviceQueueGlobalPriorityCreateInfoEXT
=== New Functions
None.
=== Issues
None.
=== Version History
* Revision 1, 2017-10-06 (Andres Rodriguez)
- First version.