The work was performed by collaboration of TheForge and Google. I am
merely splitting it up into smaller PRs and cleaning it up.
This is the most "risky" PR so far because the previous ones have been
miscellaneous stuff aimed at either [improve
debugging](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/90993) (e.g. device
lost), [improve Android
experience](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96439) (add Swappy
for better Frame Pacing + Pre-Transformed Swapchains for slightly better
performance), or harmless [ASTC
improvements](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96045) (better
performance by simply toggling a feature when available).
However this PR contains larger modifications aimed at improving
performance or reducing memory fragmentation. With greater
modifications, come greater risks of bugs or breakage.
Changes introduced by this PR:
TBDR GPUs (e.g. most of Android + iOS + M1 Apple) support rendering to
Render Targets that are not backed by actual GPU memory (everything
stays in cache). This works as long as load action isn't `LOAD`, and
store action must be `DONT_CARE`. This saves VRAM (it also makes
painfully obvious when a mistake introduces a performance regression).
Of particular usefulness is when doing MSAA and keeping the raw MSAA
content is not necessary.
Some GPUs get faster when the sampler settings are hard-coded into the
GLSL shaders (instead of being dynamically bound at runtime). This
required changes to the GLSL shaders, PSO creation routines, Descriptor
creation routines, and Descriptor binding routines.
- `bool immutable_samplers_enabled = true`
Setting it to false enforces the old behavior. Useful for debugging bugs
and regressions.
Immutable samplers requires that the samplers stay... immutable, hence
this boolean is useful if the promise gets broken. We might want to turn
this into a `GLOBAL_DEF` setting.
Instead of creating dozen/hundreds/thousands of `VkDescriptorSet` every
frame that need to be freed individually when they are no longer needed,
they all get freed at once by resetting the whole pool. Once the whole
pool is no longer in use by the GPU, it gets reset and its memory
recycled. Descriptor sets that are created to be kept around for longer
or forever (i.e. not created and freed within the same frame) **must
not** use linear pools. There may be more than one pool per frame. How
many pools per frame Godot ends up with depends on its capacity, and
that is controlled by
`rendering/rendering_device/vulkan/max_descriptors_per_pool`.
- **Possible improvement for later:** It should be possible for Godot
to adapt to how many descriptors per pool are needed on a per-key basis
(i.e. grow their capacity like `std::vector` does) after rendering a few
frames; which would be better than the current solution of having a
single global value for all pools (`max_descriptors_per_pool`) that the
user needs to tweak.
- `bool linear_descriptor_pools_enabled = true`
Setting it to false enforces the old behavior. Useful for debugging bugs
and regressions.
Setting it to false is required when workarounding driver bugs (e.g.
Adreno 730).
A ridiculous optimization. Ridiculous because the original code
should've done this in the first place. Previously Godot was doing the
following:
1. Create a command buffer **pool**. One per frame.
2. Create multiple command buffers from the pool in point 1.
3. Call `vkBeginCommandBuffer` on the cmd buffer in point 2. This
resets the cmd buffer because Godot requests the
`VK_COMMAND_POOL_CREATE_RESET_COMMAND_BUFFER_BIT` flag.
4. Add commands to the cmd buffers from point 2.
5. Submit those commands.
6. On frame N + 2, recycle the buffer pool and cmd buffers from pt 1 &
2, and repeat from step 3.
The problem here is that step 3 resets each command buffer individually.
Initially Godot used to have 1 cmd buffer per pool, thus the impact is
very low.
But not anymore (specially with Adreno workarounds to force splitting
compute dispatches into a new cmd buffer, more on this later). However
Godot keeps around a very low amount of command buffers per frame.
The recommended method is to reset the whole pool, to reset all cmd
buffers at once. Hence the new steps would be:
1. Create a command buffer **pool**. One per frame.
2. Create multiple command buffers from the pool in point 1.
3. Call `vkBeginCommandBuffer` on the cmd buffer in point 2, which is
already reset/empty (see step 6).
4. Add commands to the cmd buffers from point 2.
5. Submit those commands.
6. On frame N + 2, recycle the buffer pool and cmd buffers from pt 1 &
2, call `vkResetCommandPool` and repeat from step 3.
**Possible issues:** @dariosamo added `transfer_worker` which creates a
command buffer pool:
```cpp
transfer_worker->command_pool =
driver->command_pool_create(transfer_queue_family,
RDD::COMMAND_BUFFER_TYPE_PRIMARY);
```
As expected, validation was complaining that command buffers were being
reused without being reset (that's good, we now know Validation Layers
will warn us of wrong use).
I fixed it by adding:
```cpp
void RenderingDevice::_wait_for_transfer_worker(TransferWorker
*p_transfer_worker) {
driver->fence_wait(p_transfer_worker->command_fence);
driver->command_pool_reset(p_transfer_worker->command_pool); //
! New line !
```
**Secondary cmd buffers are subject to the same issue but I didn't alter
them. I talked this with Dario and he is aware of this.**
Secondary cmd buffers are currently disabled due to other issues (it's
disabled on master).
- `bool RenderingDeviceCommons::command_pool_reset_enabled`
Setting it to false enforces the old behavior. Useful for debugging bugs
and regressions.
There's no other reason for this boolean. Possibly once it becomes well
tested, the boolean could be removed entirely.
Adds `command_bind_render_uniform_sets` and
`add_draw_list_bind_uniform_sets` (+ compute variants).
It performs the same as `add_draw_list_bind_uniform_set` (notice
singular vs plural), but on multiple consecutive uniform sets, thus
reducing graph and draw call overhead.
- `bool descriptor_set_batching = true;`
Setting it to false enforces the old behavior. Useful for debugging bugs
and regressions.
There's no other reason for this boolean. Possibly once it becomes well
tested, the boolean could be removed entirely.
Godot currently does the following:
1. Fill the entire cmd buffer with commands.
2. `submit()`
- Wait with a semaphore for the swapchain.
- Trigger a semaphore to indicate when we're done (so the swapchain
can submit).
3. `present()`
The optimization opportunity here is that 95% of Godot's rendering is
done offscreen.
Then a fullscreen pass copies everything to the swapchain. Godot doesn't
practically render directly to the swapchain.
The problem with this is that the GPU has to wait for the swapchain to
be released **to start anything**, when we could start *much earlier*.
Only the final blit pass must wait for the swapchain.
TheForge changed it to the following (more complicated, I'm simplifying
the idea):
1. Fill the entire cmd buffer with commands.
2. In `screen_prepare_for_drawing` do `submit()`
- There are no semaphore waits for the swapchain.
- Trigger a semaphore to indicate when we're done.
3. Fill a new cmd buffer that only does the final blit to the
swapchain.
4. `submit()`
- Wait with a semaphore for the submit() from step 2.
- Wait with a semaphore for the swapchain (so the swapchain can
submit).
- Trigger a semaphore to indicate when we're done (so the swapchain
can submit).
5. `present()`
Dario discovered this problem independently while working on a different
platform.
**However TheForge's solution had to be rewritten from scratch:** The
complexity to achieve the solution was high and quite difficult to
maintain with the way Godot works now (after Übershaders PR).
But on the other hand, re-implementing the solution became much simpler
because Dario already had to do something similar: To fix an Adreno 730
driver bug, he had to implement splitting command buffers. **This is
exactly what we need!**. Thus it was re-written using this existing
functionality for a new purpose.
To achieve this, I added a new argument, `bool p_split_cmd_buffer`, to
`RenderingDeviceGraph::add_draw_list_begin`, which is only set to true
by `RenderingDevice::draw_list_begin_for_screen`.
The graph will split the draw list into its own command buffer.
- `bool split_swapchain_into_its_own_cmd_buffer = true;`
Setting it to false enforces the old behavior. This might be necessary
for consoles which follow an alternate solution to the same problem.
If not, then we should consider removing it.
PR #90993 added `shader_destroy_modules()` but it was not actually in
use.
This PR adds several places where `shader_destroy_modules()` is called
after initialization to free up memory of SPIR-V structures that are no
longer needed.
Fixes an issue introduced in #96439 (see
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96439#issuecomment-2447288702)
Godot was relying on Java's
activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getRotation(); to apply
pre-rotation but this is wrong.
First, getRotation() may temporarily return a different value from the
correct one; which is what was causing the splash screen to be upside
down. It would return -90 instead of 90 for the first rendered frame.
But unfortunately, the splash screen is just one frame rendered for a
very long time, so the error lingered for a long time for everyone to
see.
Second, to determine what rotation to use, we should be looking at what
Vulkan told us, which is the value we pass to
VkSurfaceTransformFlagBitsKHR::preTransform.
This commit removes the now-unnecessary
screen_get_internal_current_rotation() function (which was introduced by
#96439) and now saves the preTransform value in the swapchain.
- Adds Swappy for Android for stable frame pacing
- Implements pre-transformed Swapchain so that Godot's compositor is in
charge of rotating the screen instead of Android's compositor
(performance optimization for phones that don't have HW rotator)
============================
The work was performed by collaboration of TheForge and Google. I am
merely splitting it up into smaller PRs and cleaning it up.
Changes from original PR:
- Removed "display/window/frame_pacing/android/target_frame_rate" option
to use Engine::get_max_fps instead.
- Target framerate can be changed at runtime using Engine::set_max_fps.
- Swappy is enabled by default.
- Added documentation.
- enable_auto_swap setting is replaced with swappy_mode.
Also adds a new possible texture layout and API trait to support a particular behavior in D3D12 where only the COMMON layout is supported in copy queues. Fixes#98158.
- Implements asynchronous transfer queues from PR #87590.
- Adds ubershaders that can run with specialization constants specified as push constants.
- Pipelines with specialization constants can compile in the background.
- Added monitoring for pipeline compilations.
- Materials and shaders can now be created asynchronously on background threads.
- Meshes that are loaded on background threads can also compile pipelines as part of the loading process.
PR #90993 added several debugging utilities.
Among them, advanced memory tracking through the use of custom
allocators and VK_EXT_device_memory_report.
However as issue #95967 reveals, it is dangerous to leave it on by
default because drivers (or even the Vulkan loader) can too easily
accidentally break custom allocators by allocating memory through std
malloc but then request us to deallocate it (or viceversa).
This PR fixes the following problems:
- Adds --extra-gpu-memory-tracking cmd line argument
- Adds missing enum entries to
RenderingContextDriverVulkan::VkTrackedObjectType
- Adds RenderingDevice::get_driver_and_device_memory_report
- GDScript users can easily check via print(
RenderingServer.get_rendering_device().get_driver_and_device_memory_report()
)
- Uses get_driver_and_device_memory_report on device lost for appending
further info.
Fixes#95967
Features:
- Debug-only tracking of objects by type. See
get_driver_allocs_by_object_type et al.
- Debug-only Breadcrumb info for debugging GPU crashes and device lost
- Performance report per frame from get_perf_report
- Some VMA calls had to be modified in order to insert the necessary
memory callbacks
Functionality marked as "debug-only" is only available in debug or dev
builds.
Misc fixes:
- Early break optimization in RenderingDevice::uniform_set_create
============================
The work was performed by collaboration of TheForge and Google. I am
merely splitting it up into smaller PRs and cleaning it up.
Enables support for enhanced barriers if available.
Gets rid of the implementation of [CROSS_FAMILY_FALLBACK] in the D3D12 driver. The logic has been reimplemented at a higher level in RenderingDevice itself.
This fallback is only used if the RenderingDeviceDriver reports the API traits and the capability of sharing texture formats correctly. Aliases created in this way can only be used for sampling: never for writing. In most cases, the formats that do not support sharing do not support unordered access/storage writes in the first place.
Adds a new system to automatically reorder commands, perform layout transitions and insert synchronization barriers based on the commands issued to RenderingDevice.
Credit and thanks to @bruzvg for multiple build fixes, update of 3rd-party items and MinGW support.
Co-authored-by: bruvzg <7645683+bruvzg@users.noreply.github.com>
This allows Godot to automatically compress meshes to save a lot of bandwidth.
In general, this requires no interaction from the user and should result in
no noticable quality loss.
This scheme is not backwards compatible, so we have provided an upgrade
mechanism, and a mesh versioning mechanism.
Existing meshes can still be used as a result, but users can get a
performance boost by reimporting assets.
Introduces support for FSR2 as a new upscaler option available from the project settings. Also introduces an specific render list for surfaces that require motion and the ability to derive motion vectors from depth buffer and camera motion.
Direct buffer copies are required to perform certain operations more efficiently, as the only current alternative is to download the buffer to the CPU and upload it again. As the first use case, the new function is used when enabling motion vectors on multimeshes.
- Add compatibility methods for `RenderingDevice::shader_create_from_bytecode`
and `CodeEdit::get_text_for_symbol_loopup`.
- Silence errors which now have compatibility methods.
- Acknowledge GraphEdit/GraphNode compat breakage, intended and WIP.
This allows us to specify a subset of variants to compile at load time and conditionally other variants later.
This works seamlessly with shader caching.
Needed to ensure that users only pay the cost for variants they use
