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| <div class="textblock"><h1><a class="anchor" id="record_and_replay_introduction"></a> |
| Introduction</h1> |
| <p>While using the library, sequence of calls to its functions together with their parameters can be recorded to a file and later replayed using standalone player application. It can be useful to:</p> |
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| <li>Test correctness - check if same sequence of calls will not cause crash or failures on a target platform.</li> |
| <li>Gather statistics - see number of allocations, peak memory usage, number of calls etc.</li> |
| <li>Benchmark performance - see how much time it takes to replay the whole sequence.</li> |
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| Usage</h1> |
| <p><b>To record sequence of calls to a file:</b> Fill in <a class="el" href="struct_vma_allocator_create_info.html#ace2aa4877b16a42b0b7673d4e26000ee" title="Parameters for recording of VMA calls. Can be null. ">VmaAllocatorCreateInfo::pRecordSettings</a> member while creating <a class="el" href="struct_vma_allocator.html" title="Represents main object of this library initialized. ">VmaAllocator</a> object. File is opened and written during whole lifetime of the allocator.</p> |
| <p><b>To replay file:</b> Use VmaReplay - standalone command-line program. Precompiled binary can be found in "bin" directory. Its source can be found in "src/VmaReplay" directory. Its project is generated by Premake. Command line syntax is printed when the program is launched without parameters. Basic usage: </p><pre class="fragment">VmaReplay.exe MyRecording.csv |
| </pre><p><b>Documentation of file format</b> can be found in file: "docs/Recording file format.md". It's a human-readable, text file in CSV format (Comma Separated Values).</p> |
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| Additional considerations</h1> |
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| <li>Replaying file that was recorded on a different GPU (with different parameters like <code>bufferImageGranularity</code>, <code>nonCoherentAtomSize</code>, and especially different set of memory heaps and types) may give different performance and memory usage results, as well as issue some warnings and errors.</li> |
| <li>Current implementation of recording in VMA, as well as VmaReplay application, is coded and tested only on Windows. Inclusion of recording code is driven by <code>VMA_RECORDING_ENABLED</code> macro. Support for other platforms should be easy to add. Contributions are welcomed.</li> |
| <li>Currently calls to <a class="el" href="vk__mem__alloc_8h.html#a6aced90fcc7b39882b6654a740a0b9bb" title="Compacts memory by moving allocations. ">vmaDefragment()</a> function are not recorded. </li> |
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