extensions/ARB/ARB_robustness_application_isolation.txt

Name

    GL_ARB_robustness_isolation

Name Strings

    GL_ARB_robustness_application_isolation
    GL_ARB_robustness_share_group_isolation

Contributors

    Tim Johansson, Opera (timj 'at' opera.com)
    Chris Marrin, Apple (cmarrin 'at' apple.com)
    Bill Licea-Kane (bill.licea-kane 'at' amd.com)
    XYZ

Contact

    Kenneth Russell, Google (kbr 'at' google.com)

Notice

    Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The Khronos Group Inc. Copyright terms at
        http://www.khronos.org/registry/speccopyright.html

Specification Update Policy

    Khronos-approved extension specifications are updated in response to
    issues and bugs prioritized by the Khronos OpenGL Working Group. For
    extensions which have been promoted to a core Specification, fixes will
    first appear in the latest version of that core Specification, and will
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Status

    Complete. 
    Approved by the ARB on 2012/06/18.
    Ratified by the Khronos Board of Promoters on 2012/07/27.

Version

    Last Modified Date: August 13, 2012
    Revision: 3

Number

    ARB Extension #126

Dependencies

    GL_ARB_robustness is required.

Overview

    GL_ARB_robustness and supporting window system extensions allow
    creating an OpenGL context supporting graphics reset notification
    behavior.  GL_ARB_robustness_isolation provides stronger
    guarantees about the possible side-effects of a graphics reset.

    It is expected that there may be a performance cost associated
    with isolating an application or share group from other contexts
    on the GPU. For this reason, GL_ARB_robustness_isolation is
    phrased as an opt-in mechanism, with a new context creation bit
    defined in the window system bindings. It is expected that
    implementations might only advertise the strings in this extension
    if both the implementation supports the desired isolation
    properties, and the context was created with the appropriate reset
    isolation bit.

IP Status

    No known IP claims.

New Procedures and Functions

    None.

New Types

    None.

New Tokens

    None.

Additions to section 2.6 "Graphics Reset Recovery" defined in
GL_ARB_robustness

      If the graphics driver advertises the
      GL_ARB_robustness_application_isolation extension string, then
      the driver guarantees that if a particular application causes a
      graphics reset to occur:

      1. No other application on the system is affected by the
         graphics reset.

      2. No other application on the system receives any notification
         that the graphics reset occurred.
    
      If the graphics driver advertises the
      GL_ARB_robustness_share_group_isolation extension string, then
      the driver guarantees that if a context in a particular share
      group causes a graphics reset to occur:

      1. No other share group within the application is affected by
         the graphics reset. Additionally, no other application on the
         system is affected by the graphics reset.

      2. No other share group within the application receives any
         notification that the graphics reset occurred. Additionally,
         no other application on the system receives any notification
         that the graphics reset occurred.

Additions to the AGL/GLX/WGL specifications

    None

Errors

    None

New State

    None

New Implementation Dependent State

    None

Conformance Tests

    TBD

Sample Code

    TBD

Issues

    None

Revision History

    Rev.    Date       Author     Changes
    ----  ------------ ---------  ----------------------------------------
      3   08/13/12     Jon Leech  Renumbered from #144 to #126
      2   24 Apr 2012  kbr        Indicated that isolation is opt-in mechanism based on feedback from Bill Licea-Kane
      1   17 Aug 2011  kbr        Initial version