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Name
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ANDROID_blob_cache
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Name Strings
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EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache
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Contributors
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Jamie Gennis
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Contact
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Jamie Gennis, Google Inc. (jgennis 'at' google.com)
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Status
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Complete
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Version
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Version 3, December 13, 2012
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Number
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EGL Extension #48
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Dependencies
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Requires EGL 1.0
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This extension is written against the wording of the EGL 1.4 Specification
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Overview
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Shader compilation and optimization has been a troublesome aspect of OpenGL
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programming for a long time. It can consume seconds of CPU cycles during
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application start-up. Additionally, state-based re-compiles done
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internally by the drivers add an unpredictable element to application
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performance tuning, often leading to occasional pauses in otherwise smooth
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animations.
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This extension provides a mechanism through which client API
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implementations may cache shader binaries after they are compiled. It may
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then retrieve those cached shaders during subsequent executions of the same
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program. The management of the cache is handled by the application (or
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middleware), allowing it to be tuned to a particular platform or
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environment.
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While the focus of this extension is on providing a persistent cache for
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shader binaries, it may also be useful for caching other data. This is
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perfectly acceptable, but the guarantees provided (or lack thereof) were
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designed around the shader use case.
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Note that although this extension is written as if the application
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implements the caching functionality, on the Android OS it is implemented
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as part of the Android EGL module. This extension is not exposed to
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applications on Android, but will be used automatically in every
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application that uses EGL if it is supported by the underlying
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device-specific EGL implementation.
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New Types
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/*
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* EGLsizeiANDROID is a signed integer type for representing the size of a
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* memory buffer.
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*/
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#include <khrplatform.h>
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typedef khronos_ssize_t EGLsizeiANDROID;
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/*
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* EGLSetBlobFunc is a pointer to an application-provided function that a
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* client API implementation may use to insert a key/value pair into the
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* cache.
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*/
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typedef void (*EGLSetBlobFuncANDROID) (const void* key,
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EGLsizeiANDROID keySize, const void* value, EGLsizeiANDROID valueSize)
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/*
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* EGLGetBlobFunc is a pointer to an application-provided function that a
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* client API implementation may use to retrieve a cached value from the
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* cache.
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*/
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typedef EGLsizeiANDROID (*EGLGetBlobFuncANDROID) (const void* key,
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EGLsizeiANDROID keySize, void* value, EGLsizeiANDROID valueSize)
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New Procedures and Functions
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void eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID(EGLDisplay dpy,
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EGLSetBlobFuncANDROID set,
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EGLGetBlobFuncANDROID get);
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New Tokens
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None.
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Changes to Chapter 3 of the EGL 1.4 Specification (EGL Functions and Errors)
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Add a new subsection after Section 3.8, page 50
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(Synchronization Primitives)
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"3.9 Persistent Caching
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In order to facilitate persistent caching of internal client API state that
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is slow to compute or collect, the application may specify callback
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function pointers through which the client APIs can request data be cached
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and retrieved. The command
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void eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID(EGLDisplay dpy,
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EGLSetBlobFuncANDROID set, EGLGetBlobFuncANDROID get);
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sets the callback function pointers that client APIs associated with
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display <dpy> can use to interact with caching functionality provided by
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the application. <set> points to a function that inserts a new value into
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the cache and associates it with the given key. <get> points to a function
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that retrieves from the cache the value associated with a given key. The
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semantics of these callback functions are described in Section 3.9.1 (Cache
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Operations).
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Cache functions may only be specified once during the lifetime of an
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EGLDisplay. The <set> and <get> functions may be called at any time and
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from any thread from the time at which eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID is
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called until the time that the last resource associated with <dpy> is
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deleted and <dpy> itself is terminated. Concurrent calls to these
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functions from different threads is also allowed.
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If eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID generates an error then all client APIs must
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behave as though eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID was not called for the display
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<dpy>. If <set> or <get> is NULL then an EGL_BAD_PARAMETER error is
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generated. If a successful eglSetBlobCacheFuncsANDROID call was already
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made for <dpy> and the display has not since been terminated then an
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EGL_BAD_PARAMETER error is generated.
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3.9.1 Cache Operations
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To insert a new binary value into the cache and associate it with a given
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key, a client API implementation can call the application-provided callback
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function
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void (*set) (const void* key, EGLsizeiANDROID keySize,
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const void* value, EGLsizeiANDROID valueSize)
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<key> and <value> are pointers to the beginning of the key and value,
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respectively, that are to be inserted. <keySize> and <valueSize> specify
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the size in bytes of the data pointed to by <key> and <value>,
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respectively.
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No guarantees are made as to whether a given key/value pair is present in
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the cache after the set call. If a different value has been associated
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with the given key in the past then it is undefined which value, if any, is
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associated with the key after the set call. Note that while there are no
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guarantees, the cache implementation should attempt to cache the most
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recently set value for a given key.
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To retrieve the binary value associated with a given key from the cache, a
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client API implementation can call the application-provided callback
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function
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EGLsizeiANDROID (*get) (const void* key, EGLsizeiANDROID keySize,
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void* value, EGLsizeiANDROID valueSize)
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<key> is a pointer to the beginning of the key. <keySize> specifies the
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size in bytes of the binary key pointed to by <key>. If the cache contains
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a value associated with the given key then the size of that binary value in
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bytes is returned. Otherwise 0 is returned.
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If the cache contains a value for the given key and its size in bytes is
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less than or equal to <valueSize> then the value is written to the memory
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pointed to by <value>. Otherwise nothing is written to the memory pointed
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to by <value>.
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Issues
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1. How should errors be handled in the callback functions?
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RESOLVED: No guarantees are made about the presence of values in the cache,
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so there should not be a need to return error information to the client API
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implementation. The cache implementation can simply drop a value if it
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encounters an error during the 'set' callback. Similarly, it can simply
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return 0 if it encouters an error in a 'get' callback.
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2. When a client API driver gets updated, that may need to invalidate
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previously cached entries. How can the driver handle this situation?
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RESPONSE: There are a number of ways the driver can handle this situation.
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The recommended way is to include the driver version in all cache keys.
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That way each driver version will use a set of cache keys that are unique
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to that version, and conflicts should never occur. Updating the driver
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could then leave a number of values in the cache that will never be
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requested again. If needed, the cache implementation can handle those
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values in some way, but the driver does not need to take any special
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action.
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3. How much data can be stored in the cache?
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RESPONSE: This is entirely dependent upon the cache implementation.
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Presumably it will be tuned to store enough data to be useful, but not
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enough to become problematic. :)
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Revision History
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#3 (Jon Leech, December 13, 2012)
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- Fix typo in New Functions section & assign extension #.
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#2 (Jamie Gennis, April 25, 2011)
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- Swapped the order of the size and pointer arguments to the get and set
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functions.
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#1 (Jamie Gennis, April 22, 2011)
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- Initial draft.
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