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vulkan: keep unused graphics pipelines until the disk cache size is exceeded (desktop) - #994
PipelineCache::EvictUnusedPipelines destroyed every graphics pipeline unused for 9,000 frames,
however few were alive. Each one used again costs a rebuild on the GPU thread (shader translation,
about 8.5 ms each). In Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000) every revisited area rebuilt its
pipelines. In a 109-minute session on nx2-build-95, 12,677 pipelines were evicted, 10,213 were
built during play, and draws waited 109 s for them.
On desktop, unused pipelines are now destroyed only when more than kept_pipelines are built,
oldest first (prebuilt pipelines never used this session go first). The limit is clamp(pipelines in the disk cache at boot + 1024, 4096, 12288), so every cached pipeline fits
with room for new ones, and a very large cache is capped.
Android keeps the old 9,000-frame eviction, because driver memory is tight there.
MoltenVK and EDEN_NX2_PRELOAD_ALL_PIPELINES=1 keep upstream's early return (no eviction).
The policy is a pure function in pipeline_eviction_policy.h, with Catch2 tests.
The policy in effect is logged once at boot and again after the disk cache loads: Pipeline eviction: unused pipelines are destroyed only past N built.
EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES=<n> overrides the limit, and 0 restores the old eviction.
Testing
RTX 4070 Ti, i9-13900K, Windows 11, release-style build (clang-cl 22.1.8, ThinLTO, PGO),
Ocarina of Time with Bounded 50 ms.
nx2-build-117 (51 min)
this PR (66 min)
Pipelines evicted
10,054
0
Pipelines built during play
4,900
887
Build time on the GPU thread
27.7 s
6.2 s
The limit in that session was 9,698, from 8,674 pipelines cached at boot. Later sessions were
the same: 0 evicted with 9,546 and 10,037 cached. The policy tests pass (run in a standalone Catch2 build; the in-tree test target needs Qt6Test, which this setup lacks).
Note: EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES is a tuning override rather than an A/B switch between fixes.
Drop it if maintainers would rather not have it.
Desktop Vulkan graphics pipelines now use a retention limit based on pipelines cached at startup and available system memory. The limit can also be overridden with an environment variable.
Once pipelines pass the age threshold, older eligible pipelines are evicted first, while recently used pipelines are retained. When the limit is zero, up to 2,000 unused prebuilt pipelines are preserved.
EvictUnusedPipelines destroyed every graphics pipeline unused for 9000
frames (~2.5 min), assuming a rebuild costs 2-3 ms. Pausing or a long
cutscene was enough to evict an area's pipelines, and returning rebuilt
them all on the GPU thread at once. A 109-minute Ocarina of Time log on
nx2-build-95 evicted 12,677 pipelines and built 10,213 during play
(49 s on the GPU thread, 109 s of draws held, 439 frames over 100 ms);
all 25 worst freezes coincided with draws held for pipeline builds,
while no more than ~1,840 pipelines were alive at once.
On desktop, pipelines unused for 9000 frames are now destroyed only once
more than DefaultKeptPipelines (4096, ~1.8 GB of driver memory) are
built, least recently used first and only enough to get back to the
limit. EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES=<n> sets the limit; 0 restores the
previous behaviour, including the never-used prebuilt budget. Android
keeps the previous behaviour and MoltenVK still evicts nothing. The
policy in effect is logged at startup.
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With a fixed limit of 4096, a session that loaded 7,316 pipelines from the
disk cache evicted 3,925 of them and built 1,395 again on the GPU thread
(10 s of builds, 49 s of draws held). The default limit is now the number
of pipelines loaded at boot plus 1024 for new content, at least 4096 and
at most 12288 (~5.5 GB of driver memory). EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES still
overrides it, and the policy line is logged again once the cache has
loaded so it shows the limit in effect.
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The Vulkan pipeline cache now calculates a retained-pipeline target from cache size and system memory. Desktop builds can override the target with EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES; Android uses zero. Eviction applies the target while retaining existing age and platform checks.
Changes: Pipeline retention
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Retention limits and candidate selection src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/pipeline_eviction_policy.h, src/tests/video_core/pipeline_eviction_policy.cpp, src/tests/CMakeLists.txt, src/video_core/CMakeLists.txt
Adds retention constants, memory- and cache-based limit calculations, and eviction candidate selection ordered by last-use frame. Tests cover limit boundaries, tie order, and recently used candidates.
Adds retained-pipeline state and policy logging. Android sets the target to zero. Desktop uses a valid EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES value or a cache-derived target capped by physical memory. The cache initializes the target after construction and disk-cache loading.
Keeps the existing platform, preload-all, and age checks. With a nonzero target, eviction selects eligible pipelines when the built count exceeds the target. With a zero target, the existing policy retains up to 2,000 eligible unused prebuilt pipelines.
zortos293/Lichii#652 — Changes pipeline eviction in the same cache method and adds policy code and tests at the same paths. The retention formulas differ, so the implementations require reconciliation.
The change keeps unused desktop Vulkan pipelines until a size limit is exceeded. A documentation and test-naming mismatch around the zero-limit case is still open. It is minor and can be fixed as a small follow-up.
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Correct the zero-limit description. It does not match the code, and the policy's kept == 0 path is unused.
This comment says a limit of 0 "destroys every pipeline unused for EvictAfterFrames". The else branch in EvictUnusedPipelines (Lines 1772-1793) does not do that. It keeps up to 2,000 never-used prebuilt pipelines (MaxUnusedPrebuiltPipelines).
PipelinesToEvict in pipeline_eviction_policy.h documents kept == 0 as "destroys every candidate". The cache never calls it with 0, because the zero branch uses its own loop. The test "A limit of 0 evicts every candidate (old behaviour)" therefore covers a path the cache does not use. It also describes the old behaviour incorrectly.
Do one of the following:
Fix the wording here, in the header doc, and in the test name, and remove the kept == 0 special case from PipelinesToEvict.
Route the zero-limit branch through the policy so the tested behaviour is the shipped behaviour.
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Review comment at @src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_pipeline_cache.cpp around
lines 789 - 792:
Correct the zero-limit documentation and test name to describe the cache’s
actual behavior: the zero-limit branch in EvictUnusedPipelines retains up to
MaxUnusedPrebuiltPipelines never-used prebuilt pipelines. Remove
PipelinesToEvict’s kept == 0 special case so it no longer describes an unused
behavior, and keep the cache’s existing zero-limit eviction loop unchanged.
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- Around line 789-792: Correct the zero-limit documentation and test name to
describe the cache’s actual behavior: the zero-limit branch in
EvictUnusedPipelines retains up to MaxUnusedPrebuiltPipelines never-used
prebuilt pipelines. Remove PipelinesToEvict’s kept == 0 special case so it no
longer describes an unused behavior, and keep the cache’s existing zero-limit
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A limit of 0 runs the cache's old eviction, which keeps up to 2,000 prebuilt
pipelines no draw has used; it never calls PipelinesToEvict. Correct the
comments that said 0 destroys every unused pipeline, and drop
PipelinesToEvict's kept == 0 case and its test, which covered a path the
cache does not take. (Review feedback on zortos293#994.)
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I tested it, of course I already had 5,919 shaders compiled, raised that to 6629 so thats 710 new pipelines Im assuming I was still within the buffer this PR adds, unsure how that plays out on a fresh game without any shaders already cached or long play session where I would have visited tons of new areas.
The default limit fits the disk cache loaded at boot but stopped at 12,288. A
cache grows with every new area: after ~6 hours of Ocarina of Time it held
13,023 pipelines, and the session evicted 1,890. The pause menu's pipelines were
the first to go, so opening it later rebuilt 30-66 of them in one frame
(0.4-0.8 s hitches).
The cap is now as many pipelines as fit in a quarter of RAM, never below 12,288
(~28k on 32 GiB). A pipeline measured ~0.27 MiB at boot, so the old 0.45 MB
estimate is replaced with 300 KiB.
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@Teknishun7 Thanks for testing. A long session did hit the limit you were asking about, so I pushed 892e11c.
On an RTX 4070 Ti with 32 GB, after about 6 hours of Ocarina of Time across several sessions:
The disk cache held 13,023 pipelines at boot, above the old 12,288 cap.
A 77-minute session evicted 1,890 pipelines. The pause menu's pipelines went first because it is opened only now and then.
Opening the menu later rebuilt 30–66 of them in one frame, which caused 0.4–0.8 s hitches.
With the new commit, the cap is as many pipelines as fit in a quarter of RAM:
It never goes below 12,288, so 16 GB machines are unchanged.
On 32 GB the cap is about 28,000, but the default limit is still the boot cache size plus 1,024 (about 16,000 for that cache).
Building the 12,900 cached pipelines at boot added 3.4 GiB of memory, about 0.27 MiB each. The new code uses 300 KiB per pipeline, replacing the old 0.45 MB guess.
On a fresh game with no cache, the limit stays at 4,096 until the cache grows. Each boot then sizes the limit to the cache it loads.
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PipelineCache::EvictUnusedPipelinesdestroyed every graphics pipeline unused for 9,000 frames,however few were alive. Each one used again costs a rebuild on the GPU thread (shader translation,
about 8.5 ms each). In Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000) every revisited area rebuilt its
pipelines. In a 109-minute session on nx2-build-95, 12,677 pipelines were evicted, 10,213 were
built during play, and draws waited 109 s for them.
On desktop, unused pipelines are now destroyed only when more than
kept_pipelinesare built,oldest first (prebuilt pipelines never used this session go first). The limit is
clamp(pipelines in the disk cache at boot + 1024, 4096, 12288), so every cached pipeline fitswith room for new ones, and a very large cache is capped.
EDEN_NX2_PRELOAD_ALL_PIPELINES=1keep upstream's early return (no eviction).pipeline_eviction_policy.h, with Catch2 tests.Pipeline eviction: unused pipelines are destroyed only past N built.EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINES=<n>overrides the limit, and 0 restores the old eviction.Testing
RTX 4070 Ti, i9-13900K, Windows 11, release-style build (clang-cl 22.1.8, ThinLTO, PGO),
Ocarina of Time with Bounded 50 ms.
The limit in that session was 9,698, from 8,674 pipelines cached at boot. Later sessions were
the same: 0 evicted with 9,546 and 10,037 cached. The policy tests pass (run in a standalone Catch2 build; the in-tree test target needs Qt6Test, which this setup lacks).
Note:
EDEN_NX2_KEPT_PIPELINESis a tuning override rather than an A/B switch between fixes.Drop it if maintainers would rather not have it.
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