[jarynclouatre]

With RX_VK_GPL set, a draw links its pipeline from stage libraries, and a library the driver had not compiled was compiled right there, holding the draw. Where the device has pipelineCreationCacheControl, the draw now asks for the two libraries that hold shaders (pre-rasterization and fragment) with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_FAIL_ON_PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED_BIT. If either comes back VK_PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED the pipeline is not linked: the draw is left out or waits for the worker's full build, exactly as without libraries, and the worker builds the cold libraries after it, for the program's next pipeline. A library that fails is not asked for again. With RX_VK_GPL set, the frame line also counts the libraries the driver had, the cold ones, and how many of those the workers built and in what time. RX_VK_GPL_SYNC (set to anything): compiled in the draw, as before.

Testing: RTX 4070 Ti Super, driver 621.14, Windows 11, Ryzen 7 9800X3D. A scripted 10-minute route (boot, Hyrule Field, Kakariko, Market, Lost Woods, Gerudo Valley), RX_VK_GPL=1, libraries not warmed, one run each on 7dbdcdc:

	libraries off	this	compiled in the draw (RX_VK_GPL_SYNC)
frames presented in 595 s	33,000	33,000	25,800
time lost against 60 fps, s	45.5	45.2	165.7
replay thread's time in pipelines, s	3.5	4.3	153.3
draws left out	265,836	144,300	324

Alone it makes RX_VK_GPL as fast as having it off, with fewer draws left out. Warming the libraries into the pipeline cache (next PR) is what it is for. tests/test_gpl_cold_library.py is new.

[NotRexed]

This landed in the v2.0.12 branch (merged there for testing; it reaches main with that release), so closing. Thanks!

[NotRexed]

Reopened: closing this was a mistake on my side. It was tested in the v2.0.12 branch, and it will be merged into main here, so it shows as merged. Sorry for the noise.

[jarynclouatre]

Rebased on main and resolved the conflict in gpu/vk/vk_replay.cpp: the frame line keeps main's descriptor saves and adds the library counts after them. Nothing else changed. The tests pass on the rebased branch; I have not run the game on it yet.

[jarynclouatre]

Thanks, both fixed in the new commit: the test is in run_all.py's ARGS with {cxx}, and the comment says "set".