Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator

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🦀 GPU memory allocator for Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal. Written in pure Rust

Stars: 497
Forks: 82
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 29
Avg merge: 18d 17h
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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29 open issues indexed

Update to focused 0.100 windows crates to follow Microsoft guidance Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#313 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
intel-tex-rs-2 has no issues tracker? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#303 · Opened May 31, 2026
Create a special error variant for "device removed" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#297 · Opened Mar 23, 2026
Add getters to AllocationSizes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#295 · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Replace format! with format_args! when `MSRV` >= 1.89.0 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#286 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2025
🍽️ Change Policy: Cross-Platform Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#280 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Multithreading strategies Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#276 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 22, 2025
🥑 Request For Feedback: `gpu-allocator` CPU side memory consumption Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#260 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2025
Vulkan visualizer's `render_memory_block_window` calls `render_breakdown_ui` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#238 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2024
feature for supporting arena allocators Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#222 · Opened Apr 21, 2024
Split out the visualizers to a separate application Open

roadmap

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#203 · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Size of fully vendored `gpu-allocator` with `"d3d12"` is quite large Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#181 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2023
`Allocator::new` should be unsafe Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#160 · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Allocator type is quite large Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#159 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Support PIXRecordMemoryAllocationEvent Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#157 · Opened Mar 2, 2023
Visualizer UI subtract with underflow Open

bug rust

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#147 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 13, 2022
Vulkan allocator should determine limits based off what the user passes in, not what Vulkan reports Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#126 · Opened Aug 26, 2022
Vulkan allocator should respect the `maxMemoryAllocationCount` limit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#125 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2022
Allow importing externally allocated memory into the allocator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#124 · Opened Aug 26, 2022
Defragmentation support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#118 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 22, 2022
AllocatorVisualizer could/should implement Default Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#103 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 13, 2022
No way to manually destroy memory blocks before Device is destroyed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#96 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2022
It's impossible to bind to a host memory which is not coherent. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#85 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2021
'There is a memory type that is host visible, but not host coherent.' warning on MacOS Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#84 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2021
Deduplicate code in visualizer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#59 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2021
Add option for different color per allocation in visualizer. Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#58 · Opened Sep 7, 2021
Implement Debug for D3D12 Allocator Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#49 · Opened Aug 26, 2021
Add statistics about currently allocated memory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#21 · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2021
Assert when collecting backtraces Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator#13 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 22, 2020

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