If a command takes too long to execute, Vulkan drivers will think they
are inflooping and abort what they were doing.
For the simple color shader with smallish nodes, this happens around
10M instances, as tested with the output of
./tests/rendernode-create-tests 10000000 colors.node
So just limit it to way lower, so that we barely never hit it, ut still
pick a big number so this optimization stays noticable.
For small regions, the optimization doesn't matter that much, so we
don't need to do lots of work on the CPU.
In particular, this should catch icons and their backgrounds (32x32),
but I was generous in selecting the number.
Gets my discrete AMD on widget-factory back to the 1900fps it had before
this optimization while making the driver clock the GPU's shader at
1.7GHz instead of the 2.1GHz it used before.
Using clear avoids the shader engine (see last commit), so if we can get
pixels out of it, we should.
So we detect the overlap with the rounded corners of the clip region and
emit shaders for those, but then use Clear() for the rest.
With this in place, widget-factory on my integrated Intel TigerLake gets
a 60% performance boost.
The op emits a vkCmdClearAttachments() with a given color. That can be
used with color nodes that are pixel-aligned and opaque to significantly
speed up rendering when the window background is a solid color.
However, currently this fails a bit outside of fullscreen when rounded
clip rectangles are in use to draw rounded corners.
Instead of using the upload vfunc and going via the code in
GskVulkanImage, copy/paste the relevant code into the command() vfunc.
This is meant to achieve multiple things:
1. Get rid of GskVulkanUploader and its own command buffer and general
non-integration with operations.
2. Get rid of GskVulkanOp:upload()
3. Get the upload/download code machinery for GskVulkanImage and put it
with the actual operations.
The current code can't do direct upload/download, that will follow in a
future commit.
... instead of doing the equivalent things manually by creating a
RenderPass and calling the relevant functions.
Now all renderpass operations are indeed stored in ops.
Also reshuffle the command emission code, because we no longer need to
emit the ops for the base renderpass.
As a result we only submit a single command buffer containing all the
render passes instead of once per render pass.
We also bind vertex buffers and descriptor sets only once now at the
start instead of once per renderpass.
Use the OpClass.stage to order operations:
1. Put upload ops first
This way we can ensure they are executed first.
2. Move subpasses for offscreens in front of the pass using them.
This is a massive refactoring because it collects all the renderops
of all renderpasses into one long array in the Render object.
Lots of code in there is still flaky and needs cleanup. That will
follow in further commits.
Other than that it does work fine though.
All the ops that just execute a shader do pretty much the same stuff, so
put it all in a single function that they all call.
It's basically faking a base class for them.
Instead of recreating the same renderpass object in every frame and for
every offscreen, just reuse it.
Technically, we can save this per-renderer or even per-display (it
should really be cached by VkDevice), but we have no infrastructure for
that.
The function name gsk_vulkan_render_get_pipeline() had been used for
GskVulkanPipeline. Since those are gone now, we can use that name for
VkPipelines.
Renderpasses get recreated every frame, but we keep render objects
around. So if we keep the vertex buffer in the render object, we can
also keep it around and just reuse it.
Also, we only need one buffer for all the render passes, which is
another bonus.
The initial buffer size is chosen at 128kB. Maximized Nautilus,
gnome-text-editor with an open file and widget-factory take ~100kB when
doing a full redraw. Other apps are between 30-50kB usually.
So I chose a value that is not too big, but catches ~90% of cases.
Interning strings is slow, especially if we can instead do direct
pointer compares.
Also refactor the pipeline lookup code a bit to make use of the
refactored code.
Set it after creating all the ops and then use it for iterating.
Note that we cannot set it while creating the ops because the array may
be realloc()ed into a different memory region which would invalidate all
the pointers.
It currently has no use, but that will come later.
Also put the typedefs into headers in gsk/vulkan, they have nthing to do
outside that directory.
Remove the function to add a node from both the GskVulkanRender and the
GskVulkanRenderPass.
That means they are both now meant to draw exactly one node.
This is a rudimentary - but working - port.
Glyph uploads are still using the old machinery, a bunch of functions
still exist that probably aren't necessary anymore and each glyph emits
its own node.
This will need to be improved in further commits.
This shader is an updated version of the mask shader, but I want to use
the mask name for the mask node and that's a different functionality.
Also, add an operation for it and partially implement the mask node
using it, so we can test that this shader works.
Replacing the shader used for text rendering is the next step.
The benefit here is that we can now properly cross-fade when one of
start/end is fully clipped out by just replacing it with an opacity op
for the other.
This was not possible with the old way we did things.
Instead of creating a pipeline GObject, just ask for the VkPipeline.
And instead of having the Op handle it, just let the renderpass look
up/create the relevant pipeline while creating commands so that it can
insert vkCmdBindPipeline calls as-needed.
This reverts commit 0f184d3270.
The renderer is good enough to make use of the clip region.
Or rather: If it isn't, the renderpass should take care of that, not the
render object.
This reverts most of commit f420c143e0
again because it turns out GPUs like combined images and samplers.
But: The one thing we don't revert is allowing the C code to select any
combination of sampler and image:
gsk_vulkan_render_get_image_descriptor() now takes a 2nd argument
specifying the sampler.
This allows the same flexibility as before, we just combine things
early.
This change was inspired by
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/vulkan-dos-donts/
Have a resource path => vkShaderModule hash table instead of doing fancy
custom objects.
A benefit is that shader modules are now shared between all renderers
and pipelines.
Instead of creating the op manually, just pass in the renderpass and
have the op created from there.
This way ops aren't really initialized anymore, they are more appended
to the queue, so instead of foo_op_init() we can just call the function
foo_op().
The new code always uses an offscreen, even for children that are
exactly fitting texture nodes.
I would have had to write more code and didn't consider it worth it,
especially because it would have required complicating the
get_as_image() function.
This was the last node using the texture pipeline.
Instead of having one function that gets the image for the texture and
uploads it if it doesn't exist yet, make it 2 functions:
One to get the texture if it exists.
One to assign an uploaded image to the texture.
This way, we can potentially do the upload ourselves.
Allocate the memory up front instead of passing the Op into it.
This way, we can split ops into their own source file and use
init/finish style to use them.
GskVulkanOp is meant to be a proper abstraction of operations
the Vulkan renderer will be doing.
For now it's an atrocious clunky piece of junk wedged into the
renderpass codebase.
It's so temporary that I didn't even adjust indentation of the code.
Intersection with a roudned clip takes too long.
Instead, rename the function to may_intersect() to be clear about what
it does and then just intersect with the regular rectangle.
If we don't clip anything, we stil have bounds - either the framebuffer
size or (more likely) the scissor rect. And we don't want to draw
anything that is outside these bounds.
So clip in those cases, too.
Stops gtk4-demo --run=listbox from trying to render the whole listbox
instead of only the visible parts.
The match operator was added in Python 3.10, which is a bit too new for
some downstreams.
While at it, let's fix the flake8 errors and warnings.
Fixes: #5934
If we build our own targets, we need to include those.
This is only relevant when adding new shaders because meson will
complain that the (unused) sources don't exist as it tries to include
those.
And that will make the build.ninja file not be generated which would
have build those shaders and would have allowed to copy them into the
sources.
Note that this makes builds with glslc not care about all the shader
files being included with the sources, but we have CI to check that.
Make the display handle the cache, because we only need one.
We store the cache in
$CACHE_DIR/gtk-4.0/vulkan-pipeline-cache/$UUID.$VERSION
so we regenerate caches for each different device (different UUID) and
each different driver version.
We also keep track of the etag of the cache file, so if 2 different
applications update the cache, we can detect that.
Vulkan allows merging caches, so the 2nd app reloads the new cache file
and merges it into its cache before saving.
It turns out variable length is only supported for the last binding in
a set, not for every binding.
So we need to create one set for each of our arrays.
[ VUID-VkDescriptorSetLayoutBindingFlagsCreateInfo-pBindingFlags-03004 ] Object 0: handle = 0x33a9f10, type = VK_OBJECT_TYPE_DEVICE; | MessageID = 0xd3f353a | vkCreateDescriptorSetLayout(): pBindings[0] has VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_VARIABLE_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT_BIT but 0 is the largest value of all the bindings. The Vulkan spec states: If an element of pBindingFlags includes VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_VARIABLE_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT_BIT, then all other elements of VkDescriptorSetLayoutCreateInfo::pBindings must have a smaller value of binding (https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/html/vkspec.html#VUID-VkDescriptorSetLayoutBindingFlagsCreateInfo-pBindingFlags-03004)
Somebody (me) had flipped the 2 flags in commit ba28971a18:
[ VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-srcBuffer-00174 ] Object 0: handle = 0x3cfaac0, type = VK_OBJECT_TYPE_COMMAND_BUFFER; Object 1: handle = 0x430000000043, type = VK_OBJECT_TYPE_BUFFER; | MessageID = 0xe1b276a1 | Invalid usage flag for VkBuffer 0x430000000043[] used by vkCmdCopyBufferToImage. In this case, VkBuffer should have VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT set during creation. The Vulkan spec states: srcBuffer must have been created with VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT usage flag (https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/html/vkspec.html#VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-srcBuffer-00174)
If a node has a higher depth, pick the RGBA format that has that depth
as the texture format we're renderig to with render_texture().
Support for adapting the swapchain is not part of this.
When a GdkMemoryFormat isn't supported, pick close formats that have a
higher chance of being supported.
Make sure this works recursively and the whole loop always ends up at
R8G8B8A8_UNORM because that one is mandatory.
Roughly, follow these rules:
1. Drop the unpremultiplied
2. Expand channels to include all of RGBA
3. pick swizzle that is RGBA
4. pick next largest depth
5. pick R8G8B8A8_UNORM
This way, we unify the code paths for memory access to textures.
We also technically gain the ability to modify images, though I have no
use case for this.
That way, the offscreen can create images of different types.
Its not used in this commit, but will come in handy when we want to
support high bit depth.
