Registered Extension Number

77

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

Deprecation state

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2016-10-20

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Interactions and External Dependencies
  • Promoted to Vulkan 1.1 Core

Contributors
  • Jesse Hall, Google

  • James Jones, NVIDIA

  • Jeff Juliano, NVIDIA

Description

An application may wish to reference device semaphores in multiple Vulkan logical devices or instances, in multiple processes, and/or in multiple APIs. This extension provides a set of capability queries and handle definitions that allow an application to determine what types of “external” semaphore handles an implementation supports for a given set of use cases.

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.

New Commands

New Structures

New Enums

New Bitmasks

New Enum Constants

  • VK_KHR_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_CAPABILITIES_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_KHR_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_CAPABILITIES_SPEC_VERSION

  • VK_LUID_SIZE_KHR

  • Extending VkExternalSemaphoreFeatureFlagBits:

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_FEATURE_EXPORTABLE_BIT_KHR

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_FEATURE_IMPORTABLE_BIT_KHR

  • Extending VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlagBits:

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_D3D12_FENCE_BIT_KHR

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_OPAQUE_FD_BIT_KHR

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_OPAQUE_WIN32_BIT_KHR

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_OPAQUE_WIN32_KMT_BIT_KHR

    • VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_SYNC_FD_BIT_KHR

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_PROPERTIES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_ID_PROPERTIES_KHR

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2016-10-20 (James Jones)

    • Initial revision

See Also

Document Notes

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