C Specification

A subpass shading dispatches a compute pipeline work with the work dimension of render area of the calling subpass and work groups are partitioned by specified work group size. Subpass operations like subpassLoad are allowed to be used.

To record a subpass shading, call:

// Provided by VK_HUAWEI_subpass_shading
void vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer);

Parameters

  • commandBuffer is the command buffer into which the command will be recorded.

Description

When the command is executed, a global workgroup consisting of ceil (render area size / local workgroup size) local workgroups is assembled.

Valid Usage
Valid Usage (Implicit)
  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-commandBuffer-recording
    commandBuffer must be in the recording state

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT operations

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-renderpass
    This command must only be called inside of a render pass instance

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-suspended
    This command must not be called between suspended render pass instances

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-videocoding
    This command must only be called outside of a video coding scope

Host Synchronization
  • Host access to commandBuffer must be externally synchronized

  • Host access to the VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must be externally synchronized

Command Properties
Command Buffer Levels Render Pass Scope Video Coding Scope Supported Queue Types Command Type

Primary
Secondary

Inside

Outside

VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT

Action

Conditional Rendering

vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI is not affected by conditional rendering

See Also

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.

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