feat(renderer): drain virtual-geometry residency requests without stalling - #910
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…lling VirtualMeshRegistry::ProcessResidency did a direct GetData off SSBO_VIRTUAL_GROUP_STATES every frame under streaming pressure — a synchronous readback that blocked the CPU on whatever the GPU cull dispatch was still doing to that buffer. VirtualClusterCull.comp already emits page requests for non-resident visible clusters (atomicOr into the group-states buffer); the only missing piece was draining them without a stall. Replaces the direct GetData with the same 3-slot fenced ring TerrainVirtualTexture's feedback readback uses: capture a copy of the buffer each frame, poll (never ClientWaitFence) from later frames on, and apply whatever snapshot's fence has signaled. Residency-bit changes from a snapshot are published back with a single-word write per changed group rather than a whole-array republish, so applying a stale snapshot late cannot clobber request/touch bits the GPU already OR'd in on later frames. The transient request/touch bits themselves are still reset once per frame (in CaptureResidencyStates, before that frame's cull dispatch runs) to keep LRU eviction meaningful — a group's "touched" bit must not survive after the camera turns away from it. Closes #719
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesVirtual mesh residency processing now uses a non-blocking, fenced three-slot GPU readback ring. Completed snapshots drive bounded page loading and LRU updates. Residency state publication updates only changed groups. Tests validate ring saturation and streaming convergence. Virtual residency readback
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProcessResidency
participant GPUGroupStates
participant ReadbackRing
participant ApplyResidencySnapshot
participant PageResidency
ProcessResidency->>GPUGroupStates: capture residency states
GPUGroupStates->>ReadbackRing: copy states behind a fence
ProcessResidency->>ReadbackRing: poll completed slots
ReadbackRing-->>ProcessResidency: return completed snapshot
ProcessResidency->>ApplyResidencySnapshot: process GPU states
ApplyResidencySnapshot->>PageResidency: load requested pages and touch LRU pages
PageResidency-->>ProcessResidency: mark changed groups dirty
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR changes residency feedback to asynchronous GPU snapshots, but a fence-creation failure can stop streaming for the process lifetime, delayed snapshots can multiply page-upload work in one frame, and the latency test permits residency to appear as late as frame 15 despite the stated one-to-two-frame objective. These risks can cause missing geometry or frame-time spikes, so the PR should not merge until they are fixed or explicitly accepted. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/VirtualGeometry/VirtualMeshRegistry.cpp`:
- Around line 596-598: Update the fence creation logic in CaptureResidencyStates
to handle a zero result from RenderCommand::CreateFence: warn, leave the current
residency readback slot unpending, and do not advance
m_NextResidencyReadbackSlot. Only set slot.m_Pending and advance the ring index
after a valid fence is created, mirroring GPUReadbackStats::EndFrame behavior.
- Around line 629-654: Bound uploads across the entire residency poll by
creating one remaining-upload budget in ProcessResidency and passing it through
each ApplyResidencySnapshot call, updating both the declaration and definition
signatures. Ensure LoadPage consumption decrements the shared budget so multiple
signaled snapshots together never exceed m_MaxPageUploadsPerFrame.
In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/VirtualGeometry/VirtualMeshRegistry.h`:
- Line 648: Update the comment on m_ResidencyReadbackBytes to describe it as the
byte count this ring is sized for, matching EnsureResidencyReadbackSlots and its
sizeof(u32)-based calculation.
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`@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/VirtualGeometryVisualEvidenceTest.cpp`:
- Around line 1052-1053: Replace the tautological upper-bound assertion on
stats.RequestReadbackSlotsInFlight with a check that detects persistent
saturation: track consecutive frames where the value remains at the ring
capacity, then require that saturation eventually clears or slots retire.
Preserve the existing frame-context diagnostics and use the test’s established
readback-slot capacity symbol.
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- Guard CreateFence() returning 0 in CaptureResidencyStates: mark the slot free and drop the capture instead of marking it pending, which would wedge that ring slot permanently (mirrors GPUReadbackStats::EndFrame). - Share the page-upload budget across a whole PollResidencyReadback call instead of per-snapshot: several ring slots can signal in the same frame, and a per-snapshot budget could load up to kResidencyReadbackSlots * m_MaxPageUploadsPerFrame pages in one frame. - Fix a comment describing m_ResidencyReadbackBytes as a group count; it's the byte size of the copy. - Replace the test's structurally-unfailable EXPECT_LE(RequestReadbackSlotsInFlight, 3u) with a check for permanent ring saturation across the 20-frame loop, which the tautological bound could never have caught.
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Postmortem from this PR's own self-review — a real correctness bug caught before it ever reached CI. Converting VirtualMeshRegistry::ProcessResidency's synchronous per-frame republish into a fenced ring initially moved the transient request/touch bit reset into the async poll path along with the read, which silently stops clearing a group's "touched" bit once the camera looks away and freezes it at "just used" forever, corrupting LRU eviction under budget pressure with no crash and no wrong pixel.
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1077-1089: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftEnforce the residency latency objective.
The PR objective requires newly visible geometry within approximately one or two frames. This assertion accepts the first streamed page at frame 15.
A regression that delays residency for many frames will pass this test. Use a deterministic latency bound that matches the required feedback-loop latency. If GPU scheduling makes a two-frame wall-clock bound unstable, instrument capture and retirement frames instead.
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- Around line 1077-1089: Tighten the firstUploadFrame assertion in the virtual
geometry residency test to enforce the required approximately one-to-two-frame
feedback latency instead of allowing frame 15. If GPU timing makes that
wall-clock threshold unstable, track deterministic capture and retirement frames
and assert their bounded distance, while preserving the existing
no-page-streamed failure check.
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Summary
Issue #719 asks for the culling shader to "ask for what it needs" instead of the
CPU re-deriving residency conservatively from camera/bounds logic — and for the
CPU side to drain those requests without a synchronous readback.
Scoped to the one place in the engine that already has this exact loop, just
stalling:
VirtualMeshRegistry::ProcessResidency.VirtualClusterCull.compalready emits page requests for non-resident visible clusters (
atomicOrintoSSBO_VIRTUAL_GROUP_STATES, bit1);ProcessResidencywas doing a directGetDataoff that buffer every frame under streaming pressure — a stall.TerrainStreamer and SceneStreamer (also named in the issue) remain pure
CPU-camera-distance driven — they have no GPU-visible object ids at all today,
so wiring a GPU cull path for them is a much larger, separately-scoped change
(new cull shaders, new SSBO plumbing against an already-full 0–83 binding
namespace — see
docs/agent-rules/gpu-readback-stats-channel.md§8). Worthdoing later, not as part of this PR.
What changed
VirtualMeshRegistry::ProcessResidencynow uses the same 3-slot fenced ringTerrainVirtualTexture's feedback readback already uses (docs/agent-rules/gpu-readback-stats-channel.md §3, terrain-virtual-texturing.md):
CaptureResidencyStates()copies the live group-states SSBO into the nextring slot and fences it, then unconditionally republishes the resident-only
bits back into the live buffer (so request/touch bits reset every frame,
before that frame's cull dispatch runs — same cadence the old synchronous
code had, just relocated).
PollResidencyReadback()polls every ring slot oldest-first —IsFenceSignaledonly, never
ClientWaitFence— and applies whichever snapshots havecompleted.
ApplyResidencySnapshot()does the same LRU-touch + bounded page-load logicas before, but publishes residency-bit changes with a single 4-byte
SetDataper changed group instead of a whole-array republish — applying asnapshot that is a few frames stale can otherwise clobber request/touch bits
the GPU has already OR'd in for groups the snapshot didn't touch.
Added
VirtualResidencyStats::RequestReadbackSlotsInFlightfor observability(mirrors
GPUReadbackStats::GetSlotsInFlight()).Review guide
Where I'd look hardest
VirtualMeshRegistry.cpp—CaptureResidencyStates()'s unconditionalfull-buffer reset after the ring copy. This was added in self-review after
the first draft dropped it: without it, a group's "touched" bit never
clears once set, so
LastUsedFramegets stamped fresh on every readbackforever and LRU eviction can no longer tell a stale page from a live one.
ApplyResidencySnapshot()'s per-group targeted publish vs. the full resetabove — the two have to compose correctly (reset happens first in the
frame, targeted writes for this call's own residency deltas land after
it), and getting the ordering backwards would silently drop a residency
change for a frame.
VirtualClusterTwoPhaseOcclusionTest.cpp/ the existing rejection testsweren't touched but read
SSBO_VIRTUAL_GROUP_STATESsemantics I changedthe write cadence of — worth a second look that nothing there assumed the
old same-frame-synchronous read.
What I verified, and how
VirtualGeometryVisualEvidence.StreamingResidencyConvergesUnderTightBudget(real GPU, tight page budget, 20 real frames through the full Deferred
pipeline) — passes, plus two new assertions:
RequestReadbackSlotsInFlightnever exceeds the ring's 3 slots, and the first streamed-in page appears
within a bounded number of frames rather than drifting indefinitely (a
regression to e.g. always reapplying a stale snapshot would still
"eventually converge" over 20 frames but blow this bound).
VirtualGeometryVisualEvidence.*/VirtualMeshRegistryRejectionTest.*/
VirtualClusterTwoPhaseOcclusion*/VirtualGeometrySceneCoverage*/VirtualGeometryRasterParity*suites — 22/22 pass, no regressions./code-review highbefore opening this PR; found andfixed the touched-bit-never-clears bug above, deduplicated a
same-cycle-eviction-cascade edge case in the dirty-group list, and loosened
the new test's frame-count bound from a tight 6 to a generous 15 (it was
coupling to real GPU fence-completion latency, which docs/agent-rules/
timed-wait-test-assertions.md warns against as a flake trap).
Least confident about — the exact latency in frames on hardware other
than this RTX 4090 dev box. The ring design guarantees "bounded", not a
specific frame count; I widened the test's bound rather than guessing at a
tight one.
Deliberately not tested — TerrainStreamer/SceneStreamer are unchanged
(see Summary — out of scope). Did not extract a shared ring-buffer/fence-poll
utility from this and
TerrainVirtualTexture's near-identical implementation;flagged as a worthwhile follow-up in self-review but out of scope for this
PR's diff size.
Closes #719
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