VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV - Structure describing feature to use extended sparse address space

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_NV_extended_sparse_address_space
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           extendedSparseAddressSpace;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV;

## Members

This structure describes the following feature:

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `extendedSparseAddressSpace` indicates that the implementation supports allowing certain usages of sparse memory resources to exceed `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`sparseAddressSpaceSize`. See VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpacePropertiesNV.

## Description

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV` structure is included in the `pNext` chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is filled in to indicate whether each corresponding feature is supported. If the application wishes to use a VkDevice with any features described by `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV`, it must add an instance of the structure, with the desired feature members set to VK_TRUE, to the `pNext` chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo when creating the VkDevice.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpaceFeaturesNV-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_EXTENDED_SPARSE_ADDRESS_SPACE_FEATURES_NV

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_NV_extended_sparse_address_space, VkBool32, VkStructureType

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

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