Hello!
When I upgraded my drivers from 16.8.1 to 16.9.1, the Vulkan implementation I am writing plummeted from a ~4-6 ms frame time to 76 ms. It seems that sometimes, vkCreateGraphicsPipelines takes up to 25 ms to complete, and the performance is the same with a pipeline cache as without, meaning that the speedup gained from using a pipeline cache seems to be lost.
Thank you for your report. Can you post the set of shaders you use to create the graphics pipeline(s)?
I have a rather big shader library, but I can send you an example shader which takes a long time to create a pipeline from. I submitted them to the original post. Be wary, they are quite big and messy, because they are a part of a bigger shader library, and have some parts generated to GLSL. I also submitted the pipeline cache generated from an application which uses that shader.
In the meantime, I just want to ask if calling vkCreateGraphicsPipelines is a good idea to do every time a new pipeline is needed. Is the pipeline cache magic reliable, or is it better to keep track of the pipeline components yourself?
Awesome, many thanks. I'm going to forward these to a relevant team, so they can have a closer look. Will get back to you as soon as I hear back.
One more thing though: can I ask you to also post SPIR-V blobs created for an example graphics pipeline you're seeing an increased baking time for? Thanks in advance!
Sure thing, attached them to the original post. The ones denoted _bin at the end are the binary representation of the ones denoted as just _debug.
Edit: just realized the binary output is not proper, I'm attaching the new binaries to this post. File denoted _0_ is the vertex shader, and _4_ is the fragment shader. The first 4 bytes is the size of the binary, so the actual binary begins 4 bytes in.