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@adam-sawicki-a adam-sawicki-a released this 13 Dec 14:13
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v2.2.0
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Major release after many months of development in "master" branch and feature branches. Notable new features: defragmentation of GPU memory, buddy algorithm, convenience functions for sparse binding.

Major changes:

  • New, more powerful defragmentation:
    • Added structure VmaDefragmentationInfo2, functions vmaDefragmentationBegin, vmaDefragmentationEnd.
    • Added support for defragmentation of GPU memory.
    • Defragmentation of CPU memory now uses memmove, so it can move data to overlapping regions.
    • Defragmentation of CPU memory is now available for memory types that are HOST_VISIBLE but not HOST_COHERENT.
    • Added structure member VmaVulkanFunctions::vkCmdCopyBuffer.
    • Major internal changes in defragmentation algorithm.
    • VmaReplay: added parameters: --DefragmentAfterLine, --DefragmentationFlags.
    • Old interface (structure VmaDefragmentationInfo, function vmaDefragment) is now deprecated.
  • Added buddy algorithm, available for custom pools - flag VMA_POOL_CREATE_BUDDY_ALGORITHM_BIT.
  • Added convenience functions for multiple allocations and deallocations at once, intended for sparse binding resources - functions vmaAllocateMemoryPages, vmaFreeMemoryPages.
  • Added function that tries to resize existing allocation in place: vmaResizeAllocation.
  • Added flags for allocation strategy: VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_BEST_FIT_BIT, VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_WORST_FIT_BIT, VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_FIRST_FIT_BIT, and their aliases: VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_MIN_MEMORY_BIT, VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_MIN_TIME_BIT, VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_STRATEGY_MIN_FRAGMENTATION_BIT.

Minor changes:

  • Changed behavior of allocation functions to return VK_ERROR_VALIDATION_FAILED_EXT when trying to allocate memory of size 0, create buffer with size 0, or image with one of the dimensions 0.
  • VmaReplay: Added support for Windows end of lines.
  • Updated recording CSV file format version to 1.5, to support new functions.
  • Internal optimization: using read-write mutex on some platforms.
  • Many additions and fixes in documentation. Many compatibility fixes for various compilers. Other internal bugfixes, optimizations, refactoring, added more internal validation...
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