Crate gpu_alloc

Implementation agnostic memory allocator for Vulkan like APIs.

This crate is intended to be used as part of safe API implementations.
Use with caution. There are unsafe functions all over the place.

Usage

Start with fetching DeviceProperties from gpu-alloc-<backend> crate for the backend of choice.
Then create GpuAllocator instance and use it for all device memory allocations.
GpuAllocator will take care for all necessary bookkeeping like memory object count limit, heap budget and memory mapping.

Backends implementations

Backend supporting crates should not depend on this crate.
Instead they should depend on gpu-alloc-types which is much more stable, allowing to upgrade gpu-alloc version without gpu-alloc-<backend> upgrade.

Structs

• AllocationFlags
  Allocation flags
• Config
  Configuration for GpuAllocator
• DeviceProperties
  Properties of the device that will be used for allocating memory objects.
• GpuAllocator
  Memory allocator for Vulkan-like APIs.
• MappedMemoryRange
  Specifies range of the mapped memory region.
• MemoryBlock
  Memory block allocated by GpuAllocator.
• MemoryHeap
  Defines memory heap.
• MemoryPropertyFlags
  Memory properties type.
• MemoryType
  Defines memory type.
• Request
  Memory request for allocator.
• UsageFlags
  Memory usage type. Bits set define intended usage for requested memory.

Enums

• AllocationError
  Enumeration of possible errors that may occur during memory allocation.
• Dedicated
  Hints for allocator to decide on allocation strategy.
• DeviceMapError
  Memory mapped error.
• MapError
  Enumeration of possible errors that may occur during memory mapping.
• OutOfMemory
  Memory exhausted error.

Traits

• MemoryDevice
  Abstract device that can be used to allocate memory objects.