Vulkan: Multithreaded creation of UID pipeline caches

Should give a decent speedup to boot time.

Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/Renderer.cpp

@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ bool Renderer::Initialize()
                                                m_bounding_box->GetGPUBufferSize());
   }
 
-  // Ensure all pipelines previously used by the game have been created.
-  StateTracker::GetInstance()->ReloadPipelineUIDCache();
-
   // Initialize post processing.
   m_post_processor = std::make_unique<VulkanPostProcessing>();
   if (!static_cast<VulkanPostProcessing*>(m_post_processor.get())

Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/StateTracker.cpp

@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ void StateTracker::ReloadPipelineUIDCache()
     PipelineInserter inserter(this);
     m_uid_cache.OpenAndRead(filename, inserter);
   }
+
+  // If we were using background compilation, ensure everything is ready before continuing.
+  if (g_ActiveConfig.bBackgroundShaderCompiling)
+    g_shader_cache->WaitForBackgroundCompilesToComplete();
 }
 
 void StateTracker::AppendToPipelineUIDCache(const PipelineInfo& info)
@@ -212,12 +216,20 @@ bool StateTracker::PrecachePipelineUID(const SerializedPipelineUID& uid)
   pinfo.blend_state.hex = uid.blend_state_bits;
   pinfo.primitive_topology = uid.primitive_topology;
 
+  if (g_ActiveConfig.bBackgroundShaderCompiling)
+  {
+    // Use async for multithreaded compilation.
+    g_shader_cache->GetPipelineWithCacheResultAsync(pinfo);
+  }
+  else
+  {
     VkPipeline pipeline = g_shader_cache->GetPipeline(pinfo);
     if (pipeline == VK_NULL_HANDLE)
     {
       WARN_LOG(VIDEO, "Failed to get pipeline from cached UID.");
       return false;
     }
+  }
 
   // We don't need to do anything with this pipeline, just make sure it exists.
   return true;

Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/main.cpp

@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ bool VideoBackend::Initialize(void* window_handle)
     return false;
   }
 
+  // Ensure all pipelines previously used by the game have been created.
+  StateTracker::GetInstance()->ReloadPipelineUIDCache();
+
   // Lastly, precompile ubershaders, if requested.
   // This has to be done after the texture cache and shader cache are initialized.
   if (g_ActiveConfig.CanPrecompileUberShaders())