Re: NXT design for memory barriers and buffer mapping.

Hey all,

We updated the NXT buffer mapping
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HFzMMvDGHFtTgjNT0j-0SQ1fNU9R7woZ4JuNJdAXBjg>
doc
with a discussion of alternatives for UMA. Please take a look for
tomorrow's discussion!

Corentin

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Corentin Wallez <cwallez@google.com>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We wrote some document to help everyone reason about NXT's proposals for
> memory barriers and resource upload /download. Unfortunately we still don't
> have a fleshed out proposal that minimizes the number of copies on UMA.
> Instead the docs focus on explaining our current design for resource
> upload/download and for memory barriers since they are very tied.
> Eventually we'll have these docs in MarkDown in some repo, either WebGPU's
> or NXT's.
>
>    - NXT "memory barriers"
>    <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7lPmxP7M7MMQR4g210lNC5TPwmXCMLgKOQWNiuJxzA>
>    <- Please read this first as buffer mapping depends on it.
>    - NXT buffer mapping
>    <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HFzMMvDGHFtTgjNT0j-0SQ1fNU9R7woZ4JuNJdAXBjg>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Corentin
>