C Specification
To request a timestamp, call:
void vkCmdWriteTimestamp(
VkCommandBuffer commandBuffer,
VkPipelineStageFlagBits pipelineStage,
VkQueryPool queryPool,
uint32_t query);
Parameters
-
commandBuffer
is the command buffer into which the command will be recorded. -
pipelineStage
is one of the VkPipelineStageFlagBits, specifying a stage of the pipeline. -
queryPool
is the query pool that will manage the timestamp. -
query
is the query within the query pool that will contain the timestamp.
Description
vkCmdWriteTimestamp
latches the value of the timer when all previous
commands have completed executing as far as the specified pipeline stage,
and writes the timestamp value to memory.
When the timestamp value is written, the availability status of the query is
set to available.
Note
If an implementation is unable to detect completion and latch the timer at any specific stage of the pipeline, it may instead do so at any logically later stage. |
vkCmdCopyQueryPoolResults can then be called to copy the timestamp value from the query pool into buffer memory, with ordering and synchronization behavior equivalent to how other queries operate. Timestamp values can also be retrieved from the query pool using vkGetQueryPoolResults. As with other queries, the query must be reset using vkCmdResetQueryPool or vkResetQueryPoolEXT before requesting the timestamp value be written to it.
While vkCmdWriteTimestamp
can be called inside or outside of a render
pass instance, vkCmdCopyQueryPoolResults must only be called outside
of a render pass instance.
Timestamps may only be meaningfully compared if they are written by commands submitted to the same queue.
Note
An example of such a comparison is determining the execution time of a sequence of commands. |
If vkCmdWriteTimestamp
is called while executing a render pass
instance that has multiview enabled, the timestamp uses N consecutive
query indices in the query pool (starting at query
) where N is
the number of bits set in the view mask of the subpass the command is
executed in.
The resulting query values are determined by an implementation-dependent
choice of one of the following behaviors:
-
The first query is a timestamp value and (if more than one bit is set in the view mask) zero is written to the remaining queries. If two timestamps are written in the same subpass, the sum of the execution time of all views between those commands is the difference between the first query written by each command.
-
All N queries are timestamp values. If two timestamps are written in the same subpass, the sum of the execution time of all views between those commands is the sum of the difference between corresponding queries written by each command. The difference between corresponding queries may be the execution time of a single view.
In either case, the application can sum the differences between all N queries to determine the total execution time.
See Also
Document Notes
For more information, see the Vulkan Specification
This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.