1474: Add clear buffer/image to wgpu-rs api r=kvark a=Wumpf
Follow up to #1335
Started using this in Blub fluid sim a little bit on volume textures, works nicely 432fb75a68, more to come
Co-authored-by: Andreas Reich <r_andreas2@web.de>
1417: Split the tracker into stateful/stateless to reduce the overhead r=cwfitzgerald a=kvark
**Connections**
Implements https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/1413#issuecomment-851604344
Reduces the overhead for resource tracking in the Animometer benchmark by up to 50%.
**Description**
We used to use the full tracker set on the usage scopes associated with compute/render passes. A resource tracker has 2 responsibilities: ensuring the resource is held alive, and validating and recording the state transitions. This PR exploits the fact that the latter responsibility is only applicable for buffers and textures. So doing all the lifetime tracking for a pass is a waste: we can instead just attach the lifetimes to the parent command buffer, straight.
In the Animometer benchmark, there is one large buffer, and thousands of bind groups pointing to different offsets into it. The old code would fill up the pass tracker with those bind groups, and then merge it into the command buffer tracker. The new code would just fill up the command buffer tracker instead. Since there is only one buffer, the pass tracking becomes much lighter.
**Testing**
Untested. It would be nice to have some benchmarks here, possibly after #1397 ?
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <kvarkus@gmail.com>
1403: Trace render passes before they are ran r=cwfitzgerald a=kvark
**Connections**
Follow-up to #1245
**Description**
We want the API traces to reproduce issues. Previously, we moved all the resource creation to happen after the trace is written.
This PR follow-up by also recording the render pass commands even in the case where one of them triggers a validation error.
Another big part of the PR now is handling the command buffers that failed for some reason. The submission is skipping them now instead of erroring the whole thing.
**Testing**
Tested manually on wgpu-rs examples
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
* Add command buffer fill buffer method
* Added test for buffer fill
* Added image clear + test
* image/buffer clear methods are now pure clear to zero
* fix cargo clippy & int type issues
* clear buffer alignment is now given by COPY_BUFFER_ALIGNMENT
* joined buffer/image clear player tests
* ImageSubresourceRange is now used in TextureViewDescriptor
1391: Simplify features r=cwfitzgerald a=kvark
**Connections**
Fixes#1390
Makes vertex writable storage optional (native-only for now)
Fixes the follow-up to #891
**Description**
Refactors the code so that adding new features and maintaining current ones is much easier.
Refactors the way missing features are checked and reported, DRY way.
**Testing**
Not really tested
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <kvarkus@gmail.com>
1381: Update naga to gfx-25 r=kvark a=kvark
**Connections**
Fixes#1362
Picks up https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/pull/3752 and https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/pull/3758
**Description**
Updates gfx and Naga. Hooks up the new validation capabilities.
**Testing**
Self-testing.
Note: this PR doesn't currently work because Metal's backend is now required use a sizes buffer when dynamically sized arrays are present. One of the internal tests here uses them.
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <kvarkus@gmail.com>
