This should hopefully reduce underutilization of the GPU, especially on
GPUs where the thread execution width is greater than the number of
control points.
This also eliminates the extra invocations previously needed to read the
varyings from the vertex shader into the tessellation shader. The number
of threads per workgroup is now lcm(SIMD-size, output control points).
This should ensure we always process a whole number of patches per
workgroup, and further reduce underutilization of the GPU's SIMD units.
To avoid complexity handling indices in the tessellation control shader,
I've also changed the way vertex shaders for tessellation are handled.
They are now compute kernels using Metal's support for vertex-style
stage input. This lets us always emit vertices into the buffer in order
of vertex shader execution. Now we no longer have to deal with indexing
in the tessellation control shader, nor do we always have to duplicate
the index buffer to insert gaps. This also fixes a long-standing issue
where if an index were greater than the number of vertices to draw, the
vertex shader would wind up writing outside the buffer, and the vertex
would be lost.
SPIRV-Cross can now AND the `gl_SampleMask` output with an additional
fixed mask, presumably from the pipeline. Use this new functionality to
implement pipeline sample mask handling.
Special thanks to Tomek Pontika and Corentin Wallez of Google for
graciously contributing their implementation to SPIRV-Cross.
Update SPIRV-Cross to pull in the change necessary for this.
Metal is picky about interface matching. If the types of a vertex output
and its corresponding fragment input don't match, down to the number of
vector components, it fails pipeline compilation. To support cases where
the number of components in the fragment input is less than the
corresponding vertex output, we need to fix up the fragment shader to
accept the extra components.
Create fat builds of static, dynamic & framework libraries if both iOS
and simulator versions have been created from separate manual Xcode builds.
Refactor scripts for creating fat libraries to reuse across projects.
Add MVK_BUILT_PROD_DIR to replace use of BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR in most scripts
to allow flexibility across per-platform compilation.
Generally replace use of @available() with respondsToSelector:.
Add mvkMakeOSVersion() and mvkOSVersionIsAtLeast(macos,ios) to help testing OS versions.
Set maxDrawIndexedIndexValue to kMVKUndefinedLargeUInt32 instead of uint32_t max.
Add MVKTranslatedVertexBinding to describe a translated vertex binding, track these in
MVKGraphicsPipeline, and add a Metal vertex layout for each additional translated binding.
MVKGraphicsResourcesCommandEncoderState query MVKGraphicsPipeline for translated bindings
associated with existing bindings and binds the same MTLBuffer multiple times with
different offsets.
Make SPIRVReflection global functions inline and templated.
Remove SPIRVReflection.cpp.
Allow MVKSmallVector to be sorted by supporting
random access from MVKSmallVector::iterator.
Naturally, Metal complains when a fragment shader write to a
`[[depth]]` output, but there be no depth attachment. I imagine that it
will also complain if the shader write to ``[[stencil]]`` with no
stencil attachment, or it write to a ``[[color(n)]]`` output with no
corresponding attachment.
MVKShaderConverterTool add support to output SPIR-V as header (.h) files.
Add MVKShaderConverterTool Xcode target.
Add MVKShaderConverterTool Package Xcode scheme.
fetchDependencies builds MVKShaderConverterTool and runs
it on shader files in VulkanSamples API-Samples directory.
Add SPIRVShaderOutput::isUsed retrieved from shader reflection.
mvk::sizeOfOutput() returns zero if output var is not used.
Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version.
Add `MVK_CONFIG_TEXTURE_1D_AS_2D` environment variable, enabled by default.
Modify 1D warning messages to recommend use of `MVK_CONFIG_TEXTURE_1D_AS_2D`.
Update to latest version of SPIRV-Cross.
Align pipeline cache contents to latest CompilerMSL::Options structure.
Clean up code signing on demo Xcode projects.
Declare _formatDescriptions[] in mvk_datatypes.mm as officially writable
because Clang now locates static const in non-writable memory.
Update build settings to Xcode 11.
Update MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md about embedding `libMoltenVK.dylib` in an application.
This extension allows fragment shaders to delineate critical sections
where pairs of invocations may not execute simultaneously. In Metal, the
nearest equivalent functionality is raster order groups. This
implementation is thus implemented on top of them.
Update SPIRV-Cross to pull in SPIR-V support for this new extension.
Largely minimal for now. Much of it, particularly most of the
interactions with `VK_KHR_swapchain`, was already implemented
previously. The only interesting bits are the `vkCmdDispatchBase()`
command, and the ability to create arbitrary swapchain images and bind
them to swapchain memory, which requires the use of the previously
implemented `VK_KHR_bind_memory2` extension. Most everything else can be
safely ignored for now.
Non-zero dispatch bases use the compute stage-input region to pass the
dispatch base group to the shader, which must manually adjust the
`WorkgroupId` and `GlobalInvocationId` builtins, since Metal does not do
this for us. I have tested that this approach works well--at least, well
enough to pass the CTS.
Because of the ability to bind arbitrary images to swapchain memory,
I've sucked the guts out of `MVKSwapchainImage` and into `MVKSwapchain`
itself. Availability and drawable management is now performed by the
swapchain object. `MVKSwapchainImage` is now just a specialized kind of
image, created when requested with a `VkImageCreateSwapchainInfoKHR`
structure.
Update SPIRV-Cross so we can support the `vkCmdDispatchBase()` command.
One more step towards Vulkan 1.1.
Refactor SPIRVToMSLConverterContext into distinct SPIRVToMSLConversionConfiguration
and SPIRVToMSLConversionResults for conversion input and output, respectively.
Update to latest SPIRV-Cross version.
Update What's New document.
On iOS GPU family 2 and earlier:
- Allow immutable samplers to be passed to SPIRV-Cross in a format
they can be output as hardcoded constexpr samplers in MSL.
- Validate depth compare samplers are only used as immutable.
MVKMVKPipelineLayout & MVKDescriptorSetLayout can take null MVKCommandEncoder
to perform a validation pass when binding or pushing.
Reduce redundancy by combining SPIRVToMSLConverterContext structs
with compatible SPIRV-Cross structs.
Update MoltenVK version to 1.0.36.
All external library header references consistently include framework references.
Cleanup references to external library headers that are no longer required.
Simplify and consolidate external library header paths in Xcode projects.
Add MVK_EXCLUDE_SPIRV_TOOLS build option to avoid use of SPIRV-Tools library.
Remove all other references to headers within SPIRV-Tools library.
