Develop the MemoryAllocator for Direct3D12 / Vulkan / Metal

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• 3.Develop the MemoryAllocator for Direct3D12 / Vulkan / Metal
  Reference:

  • Intel TBB
    [Hudson 2006] Richard L. Hudson, Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Benjamin C. Hertzberg. "McRT-Malloc: a scalable transactional memory allocator". ISMM 2006.
    [Kukanov 2007] Alexey Kukanov, Michael J.Voss. "The Foundations for Scalable Multi-core Software in Intel Threading Building Blocks." Intel Technology Journal, Volume11, Issue 4 2007.
  • Vulkan Memory Allocator
  • D3D12 Memory Allocator

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The solution may depend on whether the device has another queue for transfer in addition to the queue for graphics and present. vk_async_resources https://github.com/YuqiaoZhang/vk_async_resources https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_async_resources

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// SLOB // kernel 3.5 // https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/slob.c?h=v3.5&id=28a33cbc24e4256c143dce96c7d93bf423229f92 // [Rosenberg 2012] Dan Rosenberg. "A Heap of Trouble: Breaking the Linux Kernel SLOB Allocator." Virtual Security Research 2012.

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• We may be inspired by the following paper:

  • [Gelado 2019] Isaac Gelado, Michael Garland. "Throughput-Oriented GPU Memory Allocation." PPOPP 2019.

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Development Notes at docs/malloc.md

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Have done with the SLOB //pt_gfx_malloc_test

vkDeviceMemory <=> ID3D12Heap <=> MTLHeap
vkBindXXMemory <=> ID3D12Device::CreatePlacedResource <=> MTLHeap::makeXXX