Dispatching Commands

The dispatching commands described in this chapter provoke work in a compute pipeline. Dispatching commands are recorded into a command buffer and when executed by a queue, will produce work which executes according to the bound compute pipeline. A compute pipeline must be bound to a command buffer before any dispatching commands are recorded in that command buffer.

To record a dispatch, call:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
void vkCmdDispatch(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountX,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountY,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountZ);

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

  • groupCountX is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the X dimension.

  • groupCountY is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Y dimension.

  • groupCountZ is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Z dimension.

When the command is executed, a global workgroup consisting of groupCountX × groupCountY × groupCountZ local workgroups is assembled.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-magFilter-04553
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-magFilter-09598
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-mipmapMode-04770
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-mipmapMode-09599
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-unnormalizedCoordinates-09635
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s levelCount and layerCount must be 1

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08609
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must be VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08610
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions with ImplicitLod, Dref or Proj in their name

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08611
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions that includes a LOD bias or any offset values

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-06479
    If a VkImageView is sampled with depth comparison, the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_SAMPLED_IMAGE_DEPTH_COMPARISON_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-02691
    If a VkImageView is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_IMAGE_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-07888
    If a VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER descriptor is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the storage texel buffer’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-02692
    If a VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_CUBIC_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-02693
    If the VK_EXT_filter_cubic extension is not enabled and any VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, it must not have a VkImageViewType of VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_3D, VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE, or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-filterCubic-02694
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubic returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-filterCubicMinmax-02695
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT with a reduction mode of either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering together with minmax filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubicMinmax returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-cubicRangeClamp-09212
    If the cubicRangeClamp feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must not have a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-reductionMode-09213
    Any VkImageView being sampled with a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM as a result of this command must sample with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-selectableCubicWeights-09214
    If the selectableCubicWeights feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have VkSamplerCubicWeightsCreateInfoQCOM::cubicWeights equal to VK_CUBIC_FILTER_WEIGHTS_CATMULL_ROM_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-flags-02696
    Any VkImage created with a VkImageCreateInfo::flags containing VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV sampled as a result of this command must only be sampled using a VkSamplerAddressMode of VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpTypeImage-07027
    For any VkImageView being written as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpTypeImage-07028
    For any VkImageView being read as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpTypeImage-07029
    For any VkBufferView being written as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpTypeImage-07030
    Any VkBufferView being read as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown then the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08600
    For each set n that is statically used by a bound shader, a descriptor set must have been bound to n at the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for set n, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08601
    For each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-10068
    For each array of resources that is used by a bound shader, the indices used to access members of the array must be less than the descriptor count for the identified binding in the descriptor sets used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-maintenance4-08602
    If the maintenance4 feature is not enabled, then for each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout and VkPushConstantRange arrays used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08114
    Descriptors in each bound descriptor set, specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, must be valid as described by descriptor validity if they are statically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was not created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08115
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, the bound VkPipeline must have been created without VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08116
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08604
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08117
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, the bound VkPipeline must have been created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08119
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkPipeline created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08605
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkShaderEXT created with a VkDescriptorSetLayout that was created with VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08606
    If the shaderObject feature is not enabled, a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08608
    If a pipeline is bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, there must not have been any calls to dynamic state setting commands for any state specified statically in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, since that pipeline was bound

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08607
    If the shaderObject feature is enabled, either a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, or a valid combination of valid and VK_NULL_HANDLE shader objects must be bound to every supported shader stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-uniformBuffers-06935
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for uniformBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08612
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-storageBuffers-06936
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for storageBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-08613
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-02707
    If commandBuffer is an unprotected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource accessed by bound shaders must not be a protected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-06550
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must only be used with OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-ConstOffset-06551
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must not use the ConstOffset and Offset operands

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-viewType-07752
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must match the Dim operand of the OpTypeImage as described in Compatibility Between SPIR-V Image Dimensions and Vulkan ImageView Types

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-format-07753
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the numeric type of the image view’s format and the Sampled Type operand of the OpTypeImage must match

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWrite-08795
    If a VkImageView created with a format other than VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the image view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWrite-08796
    If a VkImageView created with the format VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have four components

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWrite-04469
    If a VkBufferView is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the buffer view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-SampledType-04470
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-SampledType-04471
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-SampledType-04472
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-SampledType-04473
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04474
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkImage objects created with the VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04475
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkBuffer objects created with the VK_BUFFER_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06971
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_SAMPLED_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06972
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM uses a VkImageView as a sample weight image as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBoxFilterQCOM-06973
    If OpImageBoxFilterQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BOX_FILTER_SAMPLED_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM-06974
    If OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06975
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06976
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM or OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06977
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06978
    If any command other than OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must not have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09215
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09216
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format must be a single-component format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09217
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-07288
    Any shader invocation executed by this command must terminate

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-None-09600
    If a descriptor with type equal to any of VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE, or VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT is accessed as a result of this command, the image subresource identified by that descriptor must be in the image layout identified when the descriptor was written

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-02712
    If commandBuffer is a protected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource written to by the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command must not be an unprotected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-02713
    If commandBuffer is a protected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, pipeline stages other than the framebuffer-space and compute stages in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command must not write to any resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-04617
    If any of the shader stages of the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command uses the RayQueryKHR capability, then commandBuffer must not be a protected command buffer

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-groupCountX-00386
    groupCountX must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0]

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-groupCountY-00387
    groupCountY must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1]

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-groupCountZ-00388
    groupCountZ must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2]

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

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

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support compute operations

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-renderpass
    This command must only be called outside of a render pass instance

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatch-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

Outside

Outside

Compute

Action

To record an indirect dispatching command, call:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
void vkCmdDispatchIndirect(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    VkBuffer                                    buffer,
    VkDeviceSize                                offset);

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

  • buffer is the buffer containing dispatch parameters.

  • offset is the byte offset into buffer where parameters begin.

vkCmdDispatchIndirect behaves similarly to vkCmdDispatch except that the parameters are read by the device from a buffer during execution. The parameters of the dispatch are encoded in a VkDispatchIndirectCommand structure taken from buffer starting at offset.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-magFilter-04553
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-magFilter-09598
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-mipmapMode-04770
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-mipmapMode-09599
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-unnormalizedCoordinates-09635
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s levelCount and layerCount must be 1

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08609
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must be VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08610
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions with ImplicitLod, Dref or Proj in their name

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08611
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions that includes a LOD bias or any offset values

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-06479
    If a VkImageView is sampled with depth comparison, the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_SAMPLED_IMAGE_DEPTH_COMPARISON_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-02691
    If a VkImageView is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_IMAGE_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-07888
    If a VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER descriptor is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the storage texel buffer’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-02692
    If a VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_CUBIC_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-02693
    If the VK_EXT_filter_cubic extension is not enabled and any VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, it must not have a VkImageViewType of VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_3D, VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE, or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-filterCubic-02694
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubic returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-filterCubicMinmax-02695
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT with a reduction mode of either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering together with minmax filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubicMinmax returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-cubicRangeClamp-09212
    If the cubicRangeClamp feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must not have a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-reductionMode-09213
    Any VkImageView being sampled with a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM as a result of this command must sample with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-selectableCubicWeights-09214
    If the selectableCubicWeights feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have VkSamplerCubicWeightsCreateInfoQCOM::cubicWeights equal to VK_CUBIC_FILTER_WEIGHTS_CATMULL_ROM_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-flags-02696
    Any VkImage created with a VkImageCreateInfo::flags containing VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV sampled as a result of this command must only be sampled using a VkSamplerAddressMode of VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpTypeImage-07027
    For any VkImageView being written as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpTypeImage-07028
    For any VkImageView being read as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpTypeImage-07029
    For any VkBufferView being written as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpTypeImage-07030
    Any VkBufferView being read as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown then the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08600
    For each set n that is statically used by a bound shader, a descriptor set must have been bound to n at the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for set n, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08601
    For each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-10068
    For each array of resources that is used by a bound shader, the indices used to access members of the array must be less than the descriptor count for the identified binding in the descriptor sets used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-maintenance4-08602
    If the maintenance4 feature is not enabled, then for each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout and VkPushConstantRange arrays used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08114
    Descriptors in each bound descriptor set, specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, must be valid as described by descriptor validity if they are statically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was not created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08115
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, the bound VkPipeline must have been created without VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08116
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08604
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08117
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, the bound VkPipeline must have been created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08119
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkPipeline created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08605
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkShaderEXT created with a VkDescriptorSetLayout that was created with VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08606
    If the shaderObject feature is not enabled, a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08608
    If a pipeline is bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, there must not have been any calls to dynamic state setting commands for any state specified statically in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, since that pipeline was bound

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08607
    If the shaderObject feature is enabled, either a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, or a valid combination of valid and VK_NULL_HANDLE shader objects must be bound to every supported shader stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-uniformBuffers-06935
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for uniformBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08612
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-storageBuffers-06936
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for storageBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-08613
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-commandBuffer-02707
    If commandBuffer is an unprotected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource accessed by bound shaders must not be a protected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-06550
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must only be used with OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-ConstOffset-06551
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must not use the ConstOffset and Offset operands

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-viewType-07752
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must match the Dim operand of the OpTypeImage as described in Compatibility Between SPIR-V Image Dimensions and Vulkan ImageView Types

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-format-07753
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the numeric type of the image view’s format and the Sampled Type operand of the OpTypeImage must match

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWrite-08795
    If a VkImageView created with a format other than VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the image view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWrite-08796
    If a VkImageView created with the format VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have four components

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWrite-04469
    If a VkBufferView is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the buffer view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-SampledType-04470
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-SampledType-04471
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-SampledType-04472
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-SampledType-04473
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04474
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkImage objects created with the VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04475
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkBuffer objects created with the VK_BUFFER_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06971
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_SAMPLED_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06972
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM uses a VkImageView as a sample weight image as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBoxFilterQCOM-06973
    If OpImageBoxFilterQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BOX_FILTER_SAMPLED_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM-06974
    If OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06975
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06976
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM or OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06977
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06978
    If any command other than OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must not have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09215
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09216
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format must be a single-component format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09217
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-07288
    Any shader invocation executed by this command must terminate

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-None-09600
    If a descriptor with type equal to any of VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE, or VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT is accessed as a result of this command, the image subresource identified by that descriptor must be in the image layout identified when the descriptor was written

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-buffer-02708
    If buffer is non-sparse then it must be bound completely and contiguously to a single VkDeviceMemory object

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-buffer-02709
    buffer must have been created with the VK_BUFFER_USAGE_INDIRECT_BUFFER_BIT bit set

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-offset-02710
    offset must be a multiple of 4

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-commandBuffer-02711
    commandBuffer must not be a protected command buffer

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-offset-00407
    The sum of offset and the size of VkDispatchIndirectCommand must be less than or equal to the size of buffer

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-buffer-parameter
    buffer must be a valid VkBuffer handle

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

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support compute operations

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-renderpass
    This command must only be called outside of a render pass instance

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

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchIndirect-commonparent
    Both of buffer, and commandBuffer must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from the same VkDevice

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

Outside

Outside

Compute

Action

The VkDispatchIndirectCommand structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
typedef struct VkDispatchIndirectCommand {
    uint32_t    x;
    uint32_t    y;
    uint32_t    z;
} VkDispatchIndirectCommand;

  • x is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the X dimension.

  • y is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Y dimension.

  • z is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Z dimension.

The members of VkDispatchIndirectCommand have the same meaning as the corresponding parameters of vkCmdDispatch.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-VkDispatchIndirectCommand-x-00417
    x must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0]

  • VUID-VkDispatchIndirectCommand-y-00418
    y must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1]

  • VUID-VkDispatchIndirectCommand-z-00419
    z must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2]

To record a dispatch using non-zero base values for the components of WorkgroupId, call:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_1
void vkCmdDispatchBase(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupX,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupY,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupZ,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountX,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountY,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountZ);

or the equivalent command

// Provided by VK_KHR_device_group
void vkCmdDispatchBaseKHR(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupX,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupY,
    uint32_t                                    baseGroupZ,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountX,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountY,
    uint32_t                                    groupCountZ);

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

  • baseGroupX is the start value for the X component of WorkgroupId.

  • baseGroupY is the start value for the Y component of WorkgroupId.

  • baseGroupZ is the start value for the Z component of WorkgroupId.

  • groupCountX is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the X dimension.

  • groupCountY is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Y dimension.

  • groupCountZ is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Z dimension.

When the command is executed, a global workgroup consisting of groupCountX × groupCountY × groupCountZ local workgroups is assembled, with WorkgroupId values ranging from [baseGroup*, baseGroup* + groupCount*) in each component. vkCmdDispatch is equivalent to vkCmdDispatchBase(0,0,0,groupCountX,groupCountY,groupCountZ).

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-magFilter-04553
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-magFilter-09598
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-mipmapMode-04770
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-mipmapMode-09599
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-unnormalizedCoordinates-09635
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s levelCount and layerCount must be 1

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08609
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must be VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08610
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions with ImplicitLod, Dref or Proj in their name

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08611
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions that includes a LOD bias or any offset values

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-06479
    If a VkImageView is sampled with depth comparison, the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_SAMPLED_IMAGE_DEPTH_COMPARISON_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-02691
    If a VkImageView is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_IMAGE_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-07888
    If a VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER descriptor is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the storage texel buffer’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-02692
    If a VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_CUBIC_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-02693
    If the VK_EXT_filter_cubic extension is not enabled and any VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, it must not have a VkImageViewType of VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_3D, VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE, or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-filterCubic-02694
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubic returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-filterCubicMinmax-02695
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT with a reduction mode of either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering together with minmax filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubicMinmax returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-cubicRangeClamp-09212
    If the cubicRangeClamp feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must not have a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-reductionMode-09213
    Any VkImageView being sampled with a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM as a result of this command must sample with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-selectableCubicWeights-09214
    If the selectableCubicWeights feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have VkSamplerCubicWeightsCreateInfoQCOM::cubicWeights equal to VK_CUBIC_FILTER_WEIGHTS_CATMULL_ROM_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-flags-02696
    Any VkImage created with a VkImageCreateInfo::flags containing VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV sampled as a result of this command must only be sampled using a VkSamplerAddressMode of VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpTypeImage-07027
    For any VkImageView being written as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpTypeImage-07028
    For any VkImageView being read as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpTypeImage-07029
    For any VkBufferView being written as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpTypeImage-07030
    Any VkBufferView being read as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown then the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08600
    For each set n that is statically used by a bound shader, a descriptor set must have been bound to n at the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for set n, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08601
    For each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-10068
    For each array of resources that is used by a bound shader, the indices used to access members of the array must be less than the descriptor count for the identified binding in the descriptor sets used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-maintenance4-08602
    If the maintenance4 feature is not enabled, then for each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout and VkPushConstantRange arrays used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08114
    Descriptors in each bound descriptor set, specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, must be valid as described by descriptor validity if they are statically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was not created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08115
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, the bound VkPipeline must have been created without VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08116
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08604
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08117
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, the bound VkPipeline must have been created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08119
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkPipeline created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08605
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkShaderEXT created with a VkDescriptorSetLayout that was created with VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08606
    If the shaderObject feature is not enabled, a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08608
    If a pipeline is bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, there must not have been any calls to dynamic state setting commands for any state specified statically in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, since that pipeline was bound

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08607
    If the shaderObject feature is enabled, either a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, or a valid combination of valid and VK_NULL_HANDLE shader objects must be bound to every supported shader stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-uniformBuffers-06935
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for uniformBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08612
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-storageBuffers-06936
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for storageBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-08613
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-02707
    If commandBuffer is an unprotected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource accessed by bound shaders must not be a protected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-06550
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must only be used with OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-ConstOffset-06551
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must not use the ConstOffset and Offset operands

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-viewType-07752
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must match the Dim operand of the OpTypeImage as described in Compatibility Between SPIR-V Image Dimensions and Vulkan ImageView Types

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-format-07753
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the numeric type of the image view’s format and the Sampled Type operand of the OpTypeImage must match

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWrite-08795
    If a VkImageView created with a format other than VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the image view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWrite-08796
    If a VkImageView created with the format VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have four components

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWrite-04469
    If a VkBufferView is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the buffer view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-SampledType-04470
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-SampledType-04471
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-SampledType-04472
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-SampledType-04473
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04474
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkImage objects created with the VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04475
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkBuffer objects created with the VK_BUFFER_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06971
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_SAMPLED_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06972
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM uses a VkImageView as a sample weight image as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBoxFilterQCOM-06973
    If OpImageBoxFilterQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BOX_FILTER_SAMPLED_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM-06974
    If OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06975
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06976
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM or OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06977
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06978
    If any command other than OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must not have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09215
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09216
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format must be a single-component format

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09217
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-07288
    Any shader invocation executed by this command must terminate

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-None-09600
    If a descriptor with type equal to any of VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE, or VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT is accessed as a result of this command, the image subresource identified by that descriptor must be in the image layout identified when the descriptor was written

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-02712
    If commandBuffer is a protected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource written to by the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command must not be an unprotected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-02713
    If commandBuffer is a protected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, pipeline stages other than the framebuffer-space and compute stages in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command must not write to any resource

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-04617
    If any of the shader stages of the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command uses the RayQueryKHR capability, then commandBuffer must not be a protected command buffer

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-baseGroupX-00421
    baseGroupX must be less than VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0]

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-baseGroupX-00422
    baseGroupY must be less than VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1]

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-baseGroupZ-00423
    baseGroupZ must be less than VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2]

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-groupCountX-00424
    groupCountX must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0] minus baseGroupX

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-groupCountY-00425
    groupCountY must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1] minus baseGroupY

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-groupCountZ-00426
    groupCountZ must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2] minus baseGroupZ

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-baseGroupX-00427
    If any of baseGroupX, baseGroupY, or baseGroupZ are not zero, then the bound compute pipeline must have been created with the VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DISPATCH_BASE flag or the bound compute shader object must have been created with the VK_SHADER_CREATE_DISPATCH_BASE_BIT_EXT flag

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

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

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support compute operations

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-renderpass
    This command must only be called outside of a render pass instance

  • VUID-vkCmdDispatchBase-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

Outside

Outside

Compute

Action

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);

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

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

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-magFilter-04553
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-magFilter-09598
    If a VkSampler created with magFilter or minFilter equal to VK_FILTER_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-mipmapMode-04770
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR, reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE, and compareEnable equal to VK_FALSE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-mipmapMode-09599
    If a VkSampler created with mipmapMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MODE_LINEAR and reductionMode equal to either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_MINMAX_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-unnormalizedCoordinates-09635
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s levelCount and layerCount must be 1

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08609
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must be VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08610
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions with ImplicitLod, Dref or Proj in their name

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08611
    If a VkSampler created with unnormalizedCoordinates equal to VK_TRUE is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the sampler must not be used with any of the SPIR-V OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions that includes a LOD bias or any offset values

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-06479
    If a VkImageView is sampled with depth comparison, the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_SAMPLED_IMAGE_DEPTH_COMPARISON_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-02691
    If a VkImageView is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_IMAGE_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-07888
    If a VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER descriptor is accessed using atomic operations as a result of this command, then the storage texel buffer’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_ATOMIC_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-02692
    If a VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_CUBIC_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-02693
    If the VK_EXT_filter_cubic extension is not enabled and any VkImageView is sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command, it must not have a VkImageViewType of VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_3D, VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE, or VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-filterCubic-02694
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubic returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-filterCubicMinmax-02695
    Any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT with a reduction mode of either VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN or VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX as a result of this command must have a VkImageViewType and format that supports cubic filtering together with minmax filtering, as specified by VkFilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT::filterCubicMinmax returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-cubicRangeClamp-09212
    If the cubicRangeClamp feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must not have a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-reductionMode-09213
    Any VkImageView being sampled with a VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo::reductionMode equal to VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM as a result of this command must sample with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-selectableCubicWeights-09214
    If the selectableCubicWeights feature is not enabled, then any VkImageView being sampled with VK_FILTER_CUBIC_EXT as a result of this command must have VkSamplerCubicWeightsCreateInfoQCOM::cubicWeights equal to VK_CUBIC_FILTER_WEIGHTS_CATMULL_ROM_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-flags-02696
    Any VkImage created with a VkImageCreateInfo::flags containing VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV sampled as a result of this command must only be sampled using a VkSamplerAddressMode of VK_SAMPLER_ADDRESS_MODE_CLAMP_TO_EDGE

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpTypeImage-07027
    For any VkImageView being written as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpTypeImage-07028
    For any VkImageView being read as a storage image where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpTypeImage-07029
    For any VkBufferView being written as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown, the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_WRITE_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpTypeImage-07030
    Any VkBufferView being read as a storage texel buffer where the image format field of the OpTypeImage is Unknown then the view’s buffer features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_STORAGE_READ_WITHOUT_FORMAT_BIT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08600
    For each set n that is statically used by a bound shader, a descriptor set must have been bound to n at the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for set n, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08601
    For each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout array used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-10068
    For each array of resources that is used by a bound shader, the indices used to access members of the array must be less than the descriptor count for the identified binding in the descriptor sets used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-maintenance4-08602
    If the maintenance4 feature is not enabled, then for each push constant that is statically used by a bound shader, a push constant value must have been set for the same pipeline bind point, with a VkPipelineLayout that is compatible for push constants, with the VkPipelineLayout used to create the current VkPipeline or the VkDescriptorSetLayout and VkPushConstantRange arrays used to create the current VkShaderEXT , as described in Pipeline Layout Compatibility

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08114
    Descriptors in each bound descriptor set, specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, must be valid as described by descriptor validity if they are statically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was not created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08115
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, the bound VkPipeline must have been created without VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08116
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command and the bound VkPipeline was created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08604
    Descriptors in bound descriptor buffers, specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, must be valid if they are dynamically used by any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08117
    If the descriptors used by the VkPipeline bound to the pipeline bind point were specified via vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, the bound VkPipeline must have been created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08119
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkPipeline created with VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08605
    If a descriptor is dynamically used with a VkShaderEXT created with a VkDescriptorSetLayout that was created with VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT, the descriptor memory must be resident

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08606
    If the shaderObject feature is not enabled, a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08608
    If a pipeline is bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, there must not have been any calls to dynamic state setting commands for any state specified statically in the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, since that pipeline was bound

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08607
    If the shaderObject feature is enabled, either a valid pipeline must be bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command, or a valid combination of valid and VK_NULL_HANDLE shader objects must be bound to every supported shader stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-uniformBuffers-06935
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for uniformBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08612
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a uniform buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-storageBuffers-06936
    If any stage of the VkPipeline object bound to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, and that stage was created without enabling either VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2 for storageBuffers, and the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, that stage must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-08613
    If the robustBufferAccess feature is not enabled, and any VkShaderEXT bound to a stage corresponding to the pipeline bind point used by this command accesses a storage buffer, it must not access values outside of the range of the buffer as specified in the descriptor set bound to the same pipeline bind point

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-commandBuffer-02707
    If commandBuffer is an unprotected command buffer and protectedNoFault is not supported, any resource accessed by bound shaders must not be a protected resource

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-06550
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must only be used with OpImageSample* or OpImageSparseSample* instructions

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-ConstOffset-06551
    If a bound shader accesses a VkSampler or VkImageView object that enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion, that object must not use the ConstOffset and Offset operands

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-viewType-07752
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the image view’s viewType must match the Dim operand of the OpTypeImage as described in Compatibility Between SPIR-V Image Dimensions and Vulkan ImageView Types

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-format-07753
    If a VkImageView is accessed as a result of this command, then the numeric type of the image view’s format and the Sampled Type operand of the OpTypeImage must match

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWrite-08795
    If a VkImageView created with a format other than VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the image view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWrite-08796
    If a VkImageView created with the format VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have four components

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWrite-04469
    If a VkBufferView is accessed using OpImageWrite as a result of this command, then the Type of the Texel operand of that instruction must have at least as many components as the buffer view’s format

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-SampledType-04470
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-SampledType-04471
    If a VkImageView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-SampledType-04472
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a 64-bit component width is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 64

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-SampledType-04473
    If a VkBufferView with a VkFormat that has a component width less than 64-bit is accessed as a result of this command, the SampledType of the OpTypeImage operand of that instruction must have a Width of 32

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04474
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkImage objects created with the VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-sparseImageInt64Atomics-04475
    If the sparseImageInt64Atomics feature is not enabled, VkBuffer objects created with the VK_BUFFER_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT flag must not be accessed by atomic instructions through an OpTypeImage with a SampledType with a Width of 64 by this command

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06971
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_SAMPLED_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06972
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM uses a VkImageView as a sample weight image as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_WEIGHT_IMAGE_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBoxFilterQCOM-06973
    If OpImageBoxFilterQCOM is used to sample a VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BOX_FILTER_SAMPLED_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM-06974
    If OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06975
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM-06976
    If OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM or OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM is used to read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06977
    If OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM-06978
    If any command other than OpImageWeightedSampleQCOM, OpImageBoxFilterQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchWindowSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSSDQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchGatherSADQCOM, OpImageBlockMatchSSDQCOM, or OpImageBlockMatchSADQCOM uses a VkSampler as a result of this command, then the sampler must not have been created with VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_IMAGE_PROCESSING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09215
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format features must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_BLOCK_MATCHING_BIT_QCOM

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09216
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM instruction is used to read from an VkImageView as a result of this command, then the image view’s format must be a single-component format

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-OpImageBlockMatchWindow-09217
    If a OpImageBlockMatchWindow*QCOM or OpImageBlockMatchGather*QCOM read from a reference image as result of this command, then the specified reference coordinates must not fail integer texel coordinate validation

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-07288
    Any shader invocation executed by this command must terminate

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-09600
    If a descriptor with type equal to any of VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE, or VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT is accessed as a result of this command, the image subresource identified by that descriptor must be in the image layout identified when the descriptor was written

  • VUID-vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI-None-04931
    This command must be called in a subpass with bind point VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_SUBPASS_SHADING_HUAWEI. No draw commands can be called in the same subpass. Only one vkCmdSubpassShadingHUAWEI command can be called in a subpass

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 graphics operations

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

  • 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

Graphics

Action

Dispatch Command for CUDA PTX Kernels

Compute kernels can be provided in SPIR-V or PTX code. When using PTX kernels the dispatch mechanism is different than with regular compute pipelines.

The way to create a PTX assembly file is beyond the scope of this documentation. For mode information, please refer to the CUDA toolkit documentation at https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/.

Prior to using this command, you must initialize a CUDA module, and create a function handle that will serve as the entry point of the kernel to dispatch. See CUDA Modules.

The dispatching of a CUDA kernel is recorded into a command buffer, and when executed by a queue submit, will produce work which executes according to the bound compute pipeline.

To record a CUDA kernel launch, call:

// Provided by VK_NV_cuda_kernel_launch
void vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    const VkCudaLaunchInfoNV*                   pLaunchInfo);

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

  • pLaunchInfo is a pointer to a VkCudaLaunchInfoNV structure in which the grid (similar to workgroup) dimension, function handle and related arguments are defined.

When the command is executed, a global workgroup consisting of gridDimX × gridDimY × gridDimZ local workgroups is assembled.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV-pLaunchInfo-parameter
    pLaunchInfo must be a valid pointer to a valid VkCudaLaunchInfoNV structure

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

  • VUID-vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support graphics, or compute operations

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

Host Synchronization

  • 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

Both

Outside

Graphics
Compute

Action

Passing Dispatch Parameters and Arguments

The VkCudaLaunchInfoNV structure is very close to the parameters of the CUDA-Driver function cuLaunchKernel documented in section 6.19 Execution Control of CUDA Driver API.

The structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_NV_cuda_kernel_launch
typedef struct VkCudaLaunchInfoNV {
    VkStructureType        sType;
    const void*            pNext;
    VkCudaFunctionNV       function;
    uint32_t               gridDimX;
    uint32_t               gridDimY;
    uint32_t               gridDimZ;
    uint32_t               blockDimX;
    uint32_t               blockDimY;
    uint32_t               blockDimZ;
    uint32_t               sharedMemBytes;
    size_t                 paramCount;
    const void* const *    pParams;
    size_t                 extraCount;
    const void* const *    pExtras;
} VkCudaLaunchInfoNV;

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • function is the CUDA-Driver handle to the function being launched.

  • gridDimX is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the X dimension. It must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0]

  • gridDimY is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Y dimension. It must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1]

  • gridDimZ is the number of local workgroups to dispatch in the Z dimension. It must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2]

  • blockDimX is block size in the X dimension.

  • blockDimY is block size in the Y dimension.

  • blockDimZ is block size in the Z dimension.

  • sharedMemBytes is the dynamic shared-memory size per thread block in bytes.

  • paramCount is the length of the pParams table.

  • pParams is a pointer to an array of paramCount pointers, corresponding to the arguments of function.

  • extraCount is reserved for future use.

  • pExtras is reserved for future use.

Kernel parameters of function are specified via pParams, very much the same way as described in cuLaunchKernel

If function has N parameters, then pParams must be an array of N pointers and paramCount must be N. Each of kernelParams[0] through kernelParams[N-1] must point to a region of memory from which the actual kernel parameter will be copied. The number of kernel parameters and their offsets and sizes are not specified here as that information is stored in the VkCudaFunctionNV object.

The application-owned memory pointed to by pParams and kernelParams[0] through kernelParams[N-1] are consumed immediately, and may be altered or freed after vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV has returned.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-gridDimX-09406
    gridDimX must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[0]

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-gridDimY-09407
    gridDimY must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[1]

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-gridDimZ-09408
    gridDimZ must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxComputeWorkGroupCount[2]

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-paramCount-09409
    paramCount must be the total amount of parameters listed in the pParams table

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-pParams-09410
    pParams must be a pointer to a table of paramCount parameters, corresponding to the arguments of function

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-extraCount-09411
    extraCount must be 0

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-pExtras-09412
    pExtras must be NULL

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_CUDA_LAUNCH_INFO_NV

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-pNext-pNext
    pNext must be NULL

  • VUID-VkCudaLaunchInfoNV-function-parameter
    function must be a valid VkCudaFunctionNV handle

Resource Sharing from Vulkan to the CUDA Kernel

Given that one key limitation of this extension is that Vulkan cannot access, nor bind any global resource of CUDA modules, the only way to exchange data with the kernel must be to pass resources via the arguments of the function.

You can use VK_KHR_buffer_device_address to write/read to/from a VkBuffer object. VK_KHR_buffer_device_address allows you to get the device address of the buffer to pass it as an argument into pParams. Application-side pointer arithmetic on the device address is legal, but will not be bounds-checked on the device.

The corresponding argument of the CUDA function should be declared as a pointer of the same type as the referenced buffer. CUDA code may simply read or write to this buffer in the typical C way.

You may also use VK_NVX_image_view_handle as another convenient way to read/write from/to a VkImage.

The corresponding argument of the CUDA function must be typed as cudaSurfaceObject_t.

  • You may read from it by using CUDA surface-read functions such as surf3Dread, surf2Dread, and surf1Dread

  • You may write to it by using CUDA surface-write functions such as surf3Dwrite, surf2Dwrite, and surf1Dwrite

Please refer to CUDA surface object documentation for more details

On Vulkan side, here is an example on how to setup VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX to query the handle for cudaSurfaceObject_t:

VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX imageViewHandleInfo = {VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_VIEW_HANDLE_INFO_NVX};
imageViewHandleInfo.sampler = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
imageViewHandleInfo.descriptorType = VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE;
imageViewHandleInfo.imageView = imageViewIn; // the VkImageView we want to access
uint32_t myViewHandleIn = vkGetImageViewHandleNVX(m_device, &imageViewHandleInfo);
imageViewHandleInfo.imageView = imageViewOut; // the VkImageView we want to access
uint32_t myViewHandleOut = vkGetImageViewHandleNVX(m_device, &imageViewHandleInfo);

Here is an example of how to declare parameters for pParams

VkCudaLaunchInfoNV launchInfo = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_CUDA_LAUNCH_INFO_NV };

int block_size = 8;
float dt = 1.0f / 60.0f;

const void* params[] =
{
  &dt,
  &uint32_t myViewHandleIn,
  &uint32_t myViewHandleOut
};

launchInfo.function = cudaFunction; // CUDA function previously created
launchInfo.gridDimX = (volumeTexDimensionNonBoundary / block_size);
launchInfo.gridDimY = (volumeTexDimensionNonBoundary / block_size);
launchInfo.gridDimZ = (volumeTexDimensionNonBoundary / block_size);
launchInfo.blockDimX = block_size;
launchInfo.blockDimY = block_size;
launchInfo.blockDimZ = block_size;
launchInfo.sharedMemBytes = 0;
launchInfo.paramCount = 3;
launchInfo.pParams = &params[0];
launchInfo.extraCount = 0;
launchInfo.pExtras = nullptr;

vkCmdCudaLaunchKernelNV(commandBuffer, &launchInfo);

In the CUDA kernel source code, here is an example on how arguments match pParams and how we can use Surface object:

extern "C"  __global__ void cudaFunction(
  float dt,
  cudaSurfaceObject_t volumeTexIn,
  cudaSurfaceObject_t volumeTexOut
  )
{
  int i = 1 + blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
  int j = 1 + blockIdx.y * blockDim.y + threadIdx.y;
  int k = 1 + blockIdx.z * blockDim.z + threadIdx.z;

  float val;
  surf3Dread(&val, volumeTexIn, i * sizeof(float), j, k);
  ...
  float result = ...;
  // write result
  surf3Dwrite(result, volumeTexOut, i * sizeof(float), j, k);
}