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Minor fixes in documentation of defragmentation

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Adam Sawicki 2022-02-23 16:21:16 +01:00
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@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ $(function() {
</div><!--header-->
<div class="contents">
<div class="textblock"><p >Interleaved allocations and deallocations of many objects of varying size can cause fragmentation over time, which can lead to a situation where the library is unable to find a continuous range of free memory for a new allocation despite there is enough free space, just scattered across many small free ranges between existing allocations.</p>
<p >To mitigate this problem, you can use defragmentation feature. It doesn't happen automatically thought and needs your cooperation, because VMA is a low level library that only allocates memory. It cannot recreate buffers and images in a new place as it doesn't remember the contents of <code>VkBufferCreateInfo</code> / <code>VkImageCreateInfo</code> structures. It cannot copy their contents as it doesn't record any commands to a command buffer.</p>
<p >To mitigate this problem, you can use defragmentation feature. It doesn't happen automatically though and needs your cooperation, because VMA is a low level library that only allocates memory. It cannot recreate buffers and images in a new place as it doesn't remember the contents of <code>VkBufferCreateInfo</code> / <code>VkImageCreateInfo</code> structures. It cannot copy their contents as it doesn't record any commands to a command buffer.</p>
<p >Example:</p>
<div class="fragment"><div class="line"><a class="code hl_struct" href="struct_vma_defragmentation_info.html">VmaDefragmentationInfo</a> defragInfo = {};</div>
<div class="line">defragInfo.<a class="code hl_variable" href="struct_vma_defragmentation_info.html#a18dd2097d8ab2976cdc7dd3e7b978bd4">pool</a> = myPool;</div>
@ -96,7 +96,11 @@ $(function() {
<div class="line"> }</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="comment">//- Make sure the copy commands finished executing.</span></div>
<div class="line"> <span class="comment">//- Update appropriate descriptors to point to the new places.</span></div>
<div class="line"> <a class="code hl_function" href="group__group__alloc.html#gaded05a445742a00718ee766144c5c226">vmaEndDefragmentationPass</a>(allocator, defragCtx, &amp;pass);</div>
<div class="line"> res = <a class="code hl_function" href="group__group__alloc.html#gaded05a445742a00718ee766144c5c226">vmaEndDefragmentationPass</a>(allocator, defragCtx, &amp;pass);</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="keywordflow">if</span>(res == VK_SUCCESS)</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="keywordflow">break</span>;</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="keywordflow">else</span> <span class="keywordflow">if</span>(res != VK_INCOMPLETE)</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="comment">// Handle error...</span></div>
<div class="line"> }</div>
<div class="line"> <span class="keywordflow">else</span></div>
<div class="line"> <span class="comment">// Handle error...</span></div>

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include/vk_mem_alloc.h
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@ -17939,7 +17939,7 @@ enough free space, just scattered across many small free ranges between existing
allocations.
To mitigate this problem, you can use defragmentation feature.
It doesn't happen automatically thought and needs your cooperation,
It doesn't happen automatically though and needs your cooperation,
because VMA is a low level library that only allocates memory.
It cannot recreate buffers and images in a new place as it doesn't remember the contents of `VkBufferCreateInfo` / `VkImageCreateInfo` structures.
It cannot copy their contents as it doesn't record any commands to a command buffer.
@ -17971,7 +17971,11 @@ for(;;)
}
//- Make sure the copy commands finished executing.
//- Update appropriate descriptors to point to the new places.
vmaEndDefragmentationPass(allocator, defragCtx, &pass);
res = vmaEndDefragmentationPass(allocator, defragCtx, &pass);
if(res == VK_SUCCESS)
break;
else if(res != VK_INCOMPLETE)
// Handle error...
}
else
// Handle error...