This PR simplifies the FlView GL interactions. It removes some code paths that were never being used (possibly for future use with platform views?) and complex internal APIs that could be done in a single method call. This is motivated in investigating https://github.com/ubuntu-flutter-community/software/issues/868.
I plan to take this further, since there doesn't seem to be any reason why multiple FlGLArea widgets are used - we can draw all the layers in one widget.
For reviewers - the individual commits aren't particularly interesting, I just did it that way to be sure I wasn't breaking anything along the way and help to diagnose any regressions in the future.
The structural changes that this PR is simplifying came in 0561c75b4d6036e7d2c7e06163a3f0629464db9f.
Kaushik already did most of the great work. This patch gets us to a point where
all the playgrounds tests pass and the common performance optimizations are in
place. All known non-compute Impeller features should be implemented. There are
iOS only performance optimizations that haven’t been opted into because these
are behind define guards. These need to be generalized. Without that, the
performance of this backend will lag behind that of the Metal backend but only
because it is not an apples to apples comparison.
The general rubric was to keep the code and concepts as similar to the Metal
backend as possible.
The list of updates, all to the Vulkan Impeller backend:
* MSAA is wired up.
* Depth and stencil attachments and pipeline states are wired up.
* Got rid of Vulkan specific hacks in the inline pass context that were
preventing clips from working.
* Storage modes for both device buffer and texture allocation are respected.
This includes optimal usage of tile memory for device transient attachments.
* Host coherent memory for textures is no longer a requirement with explicit
mapping management and write flushes.
* Texture uploads should be optimized for the UMA case without needing a staging
buffer. That entire pipeline has been reworked.
* Textures track their current layout and ensure they get to the right layout
based on usage without redundant transitions.
* Cube textures are now supported.
* Mipmapping has been reworked to correct image layout errors. With the new
texture layout transition management, blit passes should be a whole lot easier
to read and reason about.
* Allocator allocations are named using Vulkan debug utilities and the allocator
(VMA). Comes in handy when chasing leaks. All of which are chased down.
* Left some handy utilities in there to debug resource leaks after context
shutdown. These are validation errors.
* Debug groups are pushed around render pass command encoding as well as the
entire pass contents. This mimics the behavior of the Metal backend and it
should be easy to map traces using both backends in Xcode and RenderDoc.
* Command buffer submission allows for tracking the life cycles of all resources
referenced in the command stream and ensuring that the objects stay alive till
past the submission of the command buffer. All use-after-free issues due to
this class of issue have been chased down.
* Command pools are now context global instead of being created per pass.
* Descriptor pool are now context global instead of being created per pass.
Individual descriptor types are now reference counted and returned to the pool
when not needed. The pool is still fixed size though (and hence relatively
large).
* All instances of global waitIdle on the device are removed during normal
operation. The only times a waitIdle may happen is during swapchain recreation
and context destruction.
* Swapchain adapt to them going out of date with the underlying surface and
seamlessly resize as necessary on the next drawable acquisition.
* Playgrounds are resizable.
* Pipeline front face and cull modes are respected.
* Clears for all attachments are respected.
* Maximum textures sizes supported on the device are respected instead of
hardcoding the minimum Vulkan requirement.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/112388
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/112648
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/112647 and a few other issues...
