Often, one job depends on the results of another job. For example, Job A might write to a NativeArray
that job B uses as input. You must tell the job system about such a dependency when you schedule a dependent job. The job system won’t run the dependent job until the job it depends upon is finished. One job can depend on more than one job.
You can also have a chain of jobs in which each job depends on the previous one. However, dependencies delay job execution because you must wait for any dependencies of a job to complete before it can run. Completing a dependent job must first complete any job it depends on, and any jobs those jobs depend on.
When you call the Schedule
method of a job it returns a JobHandle
. You can use a JobHandle
as a dependency for other jobs. If a job depends on the results of another job, you can pass the first job’s JobHandle
as a parameter to the second job’s Schedule
method, like so:
JobHandle firstJobHandle = firstJob.Schedule();
secondJob.Schedule(firstJobHandle);
If a job has a lot of dependencies, you can use the method JobHandle.CombineDependencies
to merge them. CombineDependencies
allows you to pass dependencies onto the Schedule
method.
NativeArray<JobHandle> handles = new NativeArray<JobHandle>(numJobs, Allocator.TempJob);
// 使用来自多个调度作业的 `JobHandles` 填充 `handles`...
JobHandle jh = JobHandle.CombineDependencies(handles);
The following is an example of multiple jobs that have multiple dependencies. It’s best practice to put the job code (MyJob
and AddOneJob
) in a separate file to the Update
and LateUpdate
code, but for the purposes of clarity, this example is one file:
using UnityEngine;
using Unity.Collections;
using Unity.Jobs;
public class MyDependentJob : MonoBehaviour
{
// Create a native array of a single float to store the result. This example waits for the job to complete.
NativeArray<float> result;
// Create a JobHandle to access the results
JobHandle secondHandle;
// Set up the first job
public struct MyJob : IJob
{
public float a;
public float b;
public NativeArray<float> result;
public void Execute()
{
result[0] = a + b;
}
}
// Set up the second job, which adds one to a value
public struct AddOneJob : IJob
{
public NativeArray<float> result;
public void Execute()
{
result[0] = result[0] + 1;
}
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
// Set up the job data for the first job
result = new NativeArray<float>(1, Allocator.TempJob);
MyJob jobData = new MyJob
{
a = 10,
b = 10,
result = result
};
// Schedule the first job
JobHandle firstHandle = jobData.Schedule();
// Setup the data for the second job
AddOneJob incJobData = new AddOneJob
{
result = result
};
// Schedule the second job
secondHandle = incJobData.Schedule(firstHandle);
}
private void LateUpdate()
{
// Sometime later in the frame, wait for the job to complete before accessing the results.
secondHandle.Complete();
// All copies of the NativeArray point to the same memory, you can access the result in "your" copy of the NativeArray
// float aPlusBPlusOne = result[0];
// Free the memory allocated by the result array
result.Dispose();
}
}
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