C Specification

The VkDescriptorBufferInfo structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
typedef struct VkDescriptorBufferInfo {
    VkBuffer        buffer;
    VkDeviceSize    offset;
    VkDeviceSize    range;
} VkDescriptorBufferInfo;

Members

  • buffer is VK_NULL_HANDLE or the buffer resource.

  • offset is the offset in bytes from the start of buffer. Access to buffer memory via this descriptor uses addressing that is relative to this starting offset.

  • range is the size in bytes that is used for this descriptor update, or VK_WHOLE_SIZE to use the range from offset to the end of the buffer.

Description

Note

When setting range to VK_WHOLE_SIZE, the effective range must not be larger than the maximum range for the descriptor type (maxUniformBufferRange or maxStorageBufferRange). This means that VK_WHOLE_SIZE is not typically useful in the common case where uniform buffer descriptors are suballocated from a buffer that is much larger than maxUniformBufferRange.

For VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_DYNAMIC and VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER_DYNAMIC descriptor types, offset is the base offset from which the dynamic offset is applied and range is the static size used for all dynamic offsets.

Valid Usage

  • offset must be less than the size of buffer

  • If range is not equal to VK_WHOLE_SIZE, range must be greater than 0

  • If range is not equal to VK_WHOLE_SIZE, range must be less than or equal to the size of buffer minus offset

  • If the nullDescriptor feature is not enabled, buffer must not be VK_NULL_HANDLE

  • If buffer is VK_NULL_HANDLE, offset must be zero and range must be VK_WHOLE_SIZE

Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

VkBuffer, VkDeviceSize, VkWriteDescriptorSet

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014-2020 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0