C Specification

The VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control
typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT {
    VkStructureType    sType;
    void*              pNext;
    VkBool32           subgroupSizeControl;
    VkBool32           computeFullSubgroups;
} VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT;

Members

This structure describes the following features:

Description

  • sType is the type of this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • subgroupSizeControl indicates whether the implementation supports controlling shader subgroup sizes via the VK_PIPELINE_SHADER_STAGE_CREATE_ALLOW_VARYING_SUBGROUP_SIZE_BIT_EXT flag and the VkPipelineShaderStageRequiredSubgroupSizeCreateInfoEXT structure.

  • computeFullSubgroups indicates whether the implementation supports requiring full subgroups in compute shaders via the VK_PIPELINE_SHADER_STAGE_CREATE_REQUIRE_FULL_SUBGROUPS_BIT_EXT flag.

If the VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure is included in the pNext chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is filled in to indicate whether each corresponding feature is supported. VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT can also be used in the pNext chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo to selectively enable these features.

Note

The VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure was added in version 2 of the VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control extension. Version 1 implementations of this extension will not fill out the features structure but applications may assume that both subgroupSizeControl and computeFullSubgroups are supported if the extension is supported. (See also the Feature Requirements section.) Applications are advised to add a VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure to the pNext chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo to enable the features regardless of the version of the extension supported by the implementation. If the implementation only supports version 1, it will safely ignore the VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT structure.
Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SUBGROUP_SIZE_CONTROL_FEATURES_EXT

See Also

VkBool32, VkStructureType

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 2014-2021 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0