wgpu/wgpu-core
Nicolas Silva 4c6318c0d2
Expose gpu allocation configuration options (#5875)
* Expose gpu allocation configuration options

This commit adds hints to control memory allocations strategies to the configuration options. These hints allow for automatic profiles such as optimizing for performance (the default, makes sense for a game), optimizing for memory usage (typically more useful for a web browser or UI library) and specifying settings manually.

The details of gpu allocation are still in flux. The goal is to switch vulkan and metal to gpu_allocator which is currently used with d3d12. gpu_allocator will also likely receive more configuration options, in particular the ability to start with smaller memory block sizes and progressively grow the block size. So the manual settings already provision for this upcoming option. Another approach could be to wait and add the manual option after the dust settles.

The reason for providing presets and defining values in the backends is that I am convinced that optimal fonigurations should take hardware capabilities into consideration. It's a deep rabbithole, though, so that will be an exercise for later.

* changelog

* Update CHANGELOG.md

Co-authored-by: Andreas Reich <r_andreas2@web.de>

* Add a comment about not entirely knowing what we are doing

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Co-authored-by: Andreas Reich <r_andreas2@web.de>
2024-07-08 14:49:44 +02:00
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src Expose gpu allocation configuration options (#5875) 2024-07-08 14:49:44 +02:00
build.rs Add cfg_aliases to wgpu-core and wgpu-hal (#5055) 2024-01-14 00:59:59 -05:00
Cargo.toml build(deps): bump the patch-updates group across 1 directory with 27 updates (#5895) 2024-07-01 10:51:47 +02:00
LICENSE.APACHE Add symlink LICENSE files into crates. (#2604) 2022-05-29 03:07:42 -04:00
LICENSE.MIT Add symlink LICENSE files into crates. (#2604) 2022-05-29 03:07:42 -04:00