C Specification

To help associate query results with a particular point at which an application emitted commands, markers can be set into the command buffers with the call:

// Provided by VK_INTEL_performance_query
VkResult vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    const VkPerformanceMarkerInfoINTEL*         pMarkerInfo);

Description

The last marker set onto a command buffer before the end of a query will be part of the query result.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL-pMarkerInfo-parameter
    pMarkerInfo must be a valid pointer to a valid VkPerformanceMarkerInfoINTEL structure

  • VUID-vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL-commandBuffer-recording
    commandBuffer must be in the recording state

  • VUID-vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT, or VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT operations

  • VUID-vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL-videocoding
    This command must only be called outside of a video coding scope

Host Synchronization

  • Host access to commandBuffer must be externally synchronized

  • Host access to the VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must be externally synchronized

Command Properties
Command Buffer Levels Render Pass Scope Video Coding Scope Supported Queue Types Command Type

Primary
Secondary

Both

Outside

VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT
VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT
VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT

Action
State
Conditional Rendering

vkCmdSetPerformanceMarkerINTEL is not affected by conditional rendering

Return Codes
On success, this command returns

  • VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  • VK_ERROR_TOO_MANY_OBJECTS

  • VK_ERROR_UNKNOWN

  • VK_ERROR_VALIDATION_FAILED

See Also

VK_INTEL_performance_query, VkCommandBuffer, VkPerformanceMarkerInfoINTEL

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

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