Registered Extension Number

429

Revision

2

Ratification Status

Not ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_NV_device_generated_commands

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-07-21

Contributors

  • Vikram Kushwaha, NVIDIA

  • Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA

  • Christoph Kubisch, NVIDIA

  • Piers Daniell, NVIDIA

  • Daniel Koch, NVIDIA

  • Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Valve

  • Mike Blumenkrantz, VALVE

Description

This extension allows the device to generate commands for binding compute pipelines, setting push constants and launching compute dispatches.

New Commands

New Structures

New Enum Constants

  • VK_NV_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_NV_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkDescriptorSetLayoutCreateFlagBits:

    • VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_INDIRECT_BINDABLE_BIT_NV

  • Extending VkIndirectCommandsTokenTypeNV:

    • VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DISPATCH_NV

    • VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PIPELINE_NV

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_COMPUTE_PIPELINE_INDIRECT_BUFFER_INFO_NV

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_DEVICE_GENERATED_COMMANDS_COMPUTE_FEATURES_NV

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_INDIRECT_DEVICE_ADDRESS_INFO_NV

Version History

  • Revision 2, 2023-07-21 (Vikram Kushwaha)

    • Rename vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBuffer to vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBufferNV

  • Revision 1, 2023-06-09 (Vikram Kushwaha)

    • First Revision

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is a generated document. Fixes and changes should be made to the generator scripts, not directly.

Copyright

Copyright 2014-2024 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0