We're going to update the MSRV to 1.90 soon, and we might as well remove the hacks we have in place from bug 1982939 and bug 1995920 for vendoring backwards compatibility early. Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D279628
📒 gpu-allocator
[dependencies]
gpu-allocator = "0.28.0"
This crate provides a fully written in Rust memory allocator for Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal.
Setting up the Vulkan memory allocator
use gpu_allocator::vulkan::*;
let mut allocator = Allocator::new(&AllocatorCreateDesc {
instance,
device,
physical_device,
debug_settings: Default::default(),
buffer_device_address: true, // Ideally, check the BufferDeviceAddressFeatures struct.
allocation_sizes: Default::default(),
});
Simple Vulkan allocation example
use gpu_allocator::vulkan::*;
use gpu_allocator::MemoryLocation;
// Setup vulkan info
let vk_info = vk::BufferCreateInfo::default()
.size(512)
.usage(vk::BufferUsageFlags::STORAGE_BUFFER);
let buffer = unsafe { device.create_buffer(&vk_info, None) }.unwrap();
let requirements = unsafe { device.get_buffer_memory_requirements(buffer) };
let allocation = allocator
.allocate(&AllocationCreateDesc {
name: "Example allocation",
requirements,
location: MemoryLocation::CpuToGpu,
linear: true, // Buffers are always linear
allocation_scheme: AllocationScheme::GpuAllocatorManaged,
}).unwrap();
// Bind memory to the buffer
unsafe { device.bind_buffer_memory(buffer, allocation.memory(), allocation.offset()).unwrap() };
// Cleanup
allocator.free(allocation).unwrap();
unsafe { device.destroy_buffer(buffer, None) };
Setting up the D3D12 memory allocator
use gpu_allocator::d3d12::*;
let mut allocator = Allocator::new(&AllocatorCreateDesc {
device: ID3D12DeviceVersion::Device(device),
debug_settings: Default::default(),
allocation_sizes: Default::default(),
});
Simple d3d12 allocation example
use gpu_allocator::d3d12::*;
use gpu_allocator::MemoryLocation;
let buffer_desc = Direct3D12::D3D12_RESOURCE_DESC {
Dimension: Direct3D12::D3D12_RESOURCE_DIMENSION_BUFFER,
Alignment: 0,
Width: 512,
Height: 1,
DepthOrArraySize: 1,
MipLevels: 1,
Format: Dxgi::Common::DXGI_FORMAT_UNKNOWN,
SampleDesc: Dxgi::Common::DXGI_SAMPLE_DESC {
Count: 1,
Quality: 0,
},
Layout: Direct3D12::D3D12_TEXTURE_LAYOUT_ROW_MAJOR,
Flags: Direct3D12::D3D12_RESOURCE_FLAG_NONE,
};
let allocation_desc = AllocationCreateDesc::from_d3d12_resource_desc(
&allocator.device(),
&buffer_desc,
"Example allocation",
MemoryLocation::GpuOnly,
);
let allocation = allocator.allocate(&allocation_desc).unwrap();
let mut resource: Option<Direct3D12::ID3D12Resource> = None;
let hr = unsafe {
device.CreatePlacedResource(
allocation.heap(),
allocation.offset(),
&buffer_desc,
Direct3D12::D3D12_RESOURCE_STATE_COMMON,
None,
&mut resource,
)
}?;
// Cleanup
drop(resource);
allocator.free(allocation).unwrap();
Setting up the Metal memory allocator
use gpu_allocator::metal::*;
let mut allocator = Allocator::new(&AllocatorCreateDesc {
device: device.clone(),
debug_settings: Default::default(),
allocation_sizes: Default::default(),
create_residency_set: false,
});
Simple Metal allocation example
use gpu_allocator::metal::*;
use gpu_allocator::MemoryLocation;
let allocation_desc = AllocationCreateDesc::buffer(
&device,
"Example allocation",
512, // size in bytes
MemoryLocation::GpuOnly,
);
let allocation = allocator.allocate(&allocation_desc).unwrap();
let heap = unsafe { allocation.heap() };
let resource = unsafe {
heap.newBufferWithLength_options_offset(
allocation.size() as usize,
heap.resourceOptions(),
allocation.offset() as usize,
)
}
.unwrap();
// Cleanup
drop(resource);
allocator.free(&allocation).unwrap();
no_std support
no_std support can be enabled by compiling with --no-default-features to disable std support and --features hashbrown for Hash collections that are only defined in std for internal usages in crate. For example:
[dependencies]
gpu-allocator = { version = "0.28.0", default-features = false, features = ["hashbrown", "other features"] }
To support both std and no_std builds in your project, use the following in your Cargo.toml:
[features]
default = ["std", "other features"]
std = ["gpu-allocator/std"]
hashbrown = ["gpu-allocator/hashbrown"]
other_features = []
[dependencies]
gpu-allocator = { version = "0.28.0", default-features = false }
Minimum Supported Rust Version
The MSRV for this crate and the vulkan, d3d12 and metal features is Rust 1.71.
The no_std support requires Rust 1.81 or higher because no_std support of dependency thiserror requires core::error::Error which is stabilized in 1.81.
Any other features such as the visualizer (with all the egui dependencies) may have a higher requirement and are not tested in our CI.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Alternative libraries
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

