C Specification
The VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures structure is defined
as:
typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures {
VkStructureType sType;
void* pNext;
VkBool32 shaderInputAttachmentArrayDynamicIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderUniformBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderSampledImageArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderStorageBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderStorageImageArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderInputAttachmentArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexing;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingUniformBufferUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingSampledImageUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingStorageImageUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingStorageBufferUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingUniformTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingStorageTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingUpdateUnusedWhilePending;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingPartiallyBound;
VkBool32 descriptorBindingVariableDescriptorCount;
VkBool32 runtimeDescriptorArray;
} VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures;
or the equivalent
typedef VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeaturesEXT;
Members
The members of the VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures
structure describe the following features:
Description
-
shaderInputAttachmentArrayDynamicIndexingindicates whether arrays of input attachments can be indexed by dynamically uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENTmust be indexed only by constant integral expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theInputAttachmentArrayDynamicIndexingcapability. -
shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexingindicates whether arrays of uniform texel buffers can be indexed by dynamically uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFERmust be indexed only by constant integral expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theUniformTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexingcapability. -
shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexingindicates whether arrays of storage texel buffers can be indexed by dynamically uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFERmust be indexed only by constant integral expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theStorageTexelBufferArrayDynamicIndexingcapability. -
shaderUniformBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of uniform buffers can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFERorVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_DYNAMICmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theUniformBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderSampledImageArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of samplers or sampled images can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLER,VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER, orVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGEmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theSampledImageArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderStorageBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of storage buffers can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFERorVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER_DYNAMICmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theStorageBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderStorageImageArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of storage images can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGEmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theStorageImageArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderInputAttachmentArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of input attachments can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENTmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theInputAttachmentArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderUniformTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of uniform texel buffers can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFERmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theUniformTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
shaderStorageTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingindicates whether arrays of storage texel buffers can be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions in shader code. If this feature is not enabled, resources with a descriptor type ofVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFERmust not be indexed by non-uniform integer expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare theStorageTexelBufferArrayNonUniformIndexingcapability. -
descriptorBindingUniformBufferUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating uniform buffer descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER. -
descriptorBindingSampledImageUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating sampled image descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLER,VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER, orVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE. -
descriptorBindingStorageImageUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating storage image descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE. -
descriptorBindingStorageBufferUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating storage buffer descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER. -
descriptorBindingUniformTexelBufferUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating uniform texel buffer descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER. -
descriptorBindingStorageTexelBufferUpdateAfterBindindicates whether the implementation supports updating storage texel buffer descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BITmust not be used withVK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER. -
descriptorBindingUpdateUnusedWhilePendingindicates whether the implementation supports updating descriptors while the set is in use. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_UNUSED_WHILE_PENDING_BITmust not be used. -
descriptorBindingPartiallyBoundindicates whether the implementation supports statically using a descriptor set binding in which some descriptors are not valid. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_PARTIALLY_BOUND_BITmust not be used. -
descriptorBindingVariableDescriptorCountindicates whether the implementation supports descriptor sets with a variable-sized last binding. If this feature is not enabled,VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_VARIABLE_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT_BITmust not be used. -
runtimeDescriptorArrayindicates whether the implementation supports the SPIR-VRuntimeDescriptorArraycapability. If this feature is not enabled, descriptors must not be declared in runtime arrays.
If the VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures structure is
included in the pNext chain of VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is
filled with values indicating whether each feature is supported.
VkPhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures can also be included in
the pNext chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo to enable features.
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 (c) 2014-2020 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.