Traverse-Research / Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator

'There is a memory type that is host visible, but not host coherent.' warning on MacOS

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Description

So I'm not entirely sure why this warning exists:

15:04:03 [WARN] There is a memory type that is host visible, but not host coherent. It's time to upgrade our memory allocator to take advantage of this type of memory :)

but just FYI, this is generally how memory is set up in MoltenVK, atleast in version 1.1.6.

Here are some reports: https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/displayreport.php?id=13266#memory https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/displayreport.php?id=13265#memory

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Start with the warning text in the issue and compare the reported MoltenVK memory configurations linked there. Determine whether host-visible, non-coherent memory is expected on macOS and what behavior or warning should be changed; done means the warning is correctly handled and verified against the reported configurations.

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Tech stack
rust
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performance
Issue type
Bug
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