bevy/crates/bevy_render
James Liu 12032cd296
Directly copy data into uniform buffers (#9865)
# Objective
This is a minimally disruptive version of #8340. I attempted to update
it, but failed due to the scope of the changes added in #8204.

Fixes #8307. Partially addresses #4642. As seen in
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/8284, we're actually copying
data twice in Prepare stage systems. Once into a CPU-side intermediate
scratch buffer, and once again into a mapped buffer. This is inefficient
and effectively doubles the time spent and memory allocated to run these
systems.

## Solution
Skip the scratch buffer entirely and use
`wgpu::Queue::write_buffer_with` to directly write data into mapped
buffers.

Separately, this also directly uses
`wgpu::Limits::min_uniform_buffer_offset_alignment` to set up the
alignment when writing to the buffers. Partially addressing the issue
raised in #4642.

Storage buffers and the abstractions built on top of
`DynamicUniformBuffer` will need to come in followup PRs.

This may not have a noticeable performance difference in this PR, as the
only first-party systems affected by this are view related, and likely
are not going to be particularly heavy.

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## Changelog
Added: `DynamicUniformBuffer::get_writer`.
Added: `DynamicUniformBufferWriter`.
2023-09-25 19:15:37 +00:00
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macros Fix the clippy::explicit_iter_loop lint (#9834) 2023-09-19 03:35:22 +00:00
src Directly copy data into uniform buffers (#9865) 2023-09-25 19:15:37 +00:00
Cargo.toml Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) 2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00