perf(pipeline): share internal RT across cameras via per-frame pool lease

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Summary

Issue context: galacean/migration-agent#304 — multi-camera scenes (e.g. Camera3D + CameraUI both rendering to screen) currently allocate one full-canvas internal RT per camera because BasicRenderPipeline._internalColorTarget is a per-pipeline long-lived member. On a 1078×2249 canvas with MSAA 4x that means 2 × 74 MB = 148 MB just for scratch buffers.

This PR converts the internal RT to a per-frame lease/release through the existing RenderTargetPool, so cameras with matching shape share a single underlying RT through the pool — net occupancy = 1 × full-canvas RT.

What changed

BasicRenderPipeline

• _internalColorTarget and _copyBackgroundTexture are released back to the pool at the end of every _drawRenderPass().
• The render-time-allocation logic is unchanged; the pool's existing match key (width, height, colorFormat, depthFormat, mipmap, isSRGBColorSpace, antiAliasing) handles the matching. Cameras with mismatched HDR/MSAA/format still get their own entries automatically.
• Dropped the now-dead "transition from independentCanvasEnabled to off" cleanup branch — that path is naturally handled by end-of-frame release.

RenderTargetPool — three eviction strategies to keep the free list bounded under shape churn (canvas resize, dynamic viewport, etc.):

1. tick(currentFrame) — destroys entries idle longer than maxFreeAgeFrames (default 60). Engine.update() calls this once per frame.
2. evictBySize(width, height) — destroys entries matching the given dimensions. Engine subscribes to canvas._sizeUpdateFlagManager and evicts at the old canvas size so old full-canvas RTs don't linger waiting for tick().
3. maxFreeBytes (default 64 MB) — when a free* push would exceed the cap, the oldest entries (by lastUsedFrame) are destroyed until the total fits. Sized to free-list contents only, so the cap is device-independent (we know our own usage via Texture._memorySize / RenderTarget._memorySize).

RenderTarget._memorySize — relaxed from private to @internal so the pool can compute per-entry bytes without re-deriving from format/aa.

RenderTargetPool — exported from RenderPipeline/index.ts (still @internal, but reachable for tests).

Why this design

Industry reference points considered:

• Render graph (Frostbite / UE RDG / Filament TransientResourceCache) is the "correct" answer but requires declaring pass DAGs and is far too invasive for a focused fix.
• RTHandle-style pooling with frame-age LRU (Unity SRP, Bevy) covers most cases but does poorly under continuous resize — old-shape entries linger for N frames each.
• Memory budget caps (UE5 RDG) are hard to tune in WebGL since we can't query GPU headroom, but a free-list-scoped cap (this PR) is well-defined: it only bounds resources we hold redundantly.

Combining frame-age + resize-targeted eviction + free-list memory cap gives the steady-state LRU behavior plus precise handling of the canvas-resize spike without a magic device-wide ceiling.

Trade-offs

• Debug attribution gets weaker: _internalColorTarget no longer stably belongs to one camera; profiling tools that traced "which camera allocated this RT" via ctor stack only see the first creator. Pool ownership is now the right level of abstraction.
• Pool match scan runs every camera every frame instead of every pipeline once. The scan is O(n) on the free list which is tiny — measured negligible.
• The color-keep clearFlags path (BasicRenderPipeline.ts:265–291) was already pulling from the actual output (screen / camera.renderTarget) every frame regardless of RT contents, so cross-camera RT sharing introduces zero additional blit cost there.

Test plan

New tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts (11 cases) covering:

• Matching reuse: free → alloc same shape → returns same instance
• Multi-camera frame-internal reuse (the headline scenario)
• Mismatched shape allocates fresh
• tick() keeps recent entries, destroys aged entries
• evictBySize() targets matching dimensions, ignores others
• maxFreeBytes enforced on every push; freeListByteSize accounting accurate
• gc() destroys all and zeros total

Also verified:

• All tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/, tests/src/core/texture/, RenderingStatistics, Camera, Scene, DeviceLost pass (79 + 35 tests)
• pnpm run b:types + pnpm run b:module succeed across all 13 packages

Notes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests

  • Added tests for render-target and texture pooling: shape-based reuse, frame-age eviction, size-based eviction, and garbage collection.

• Chores

  • Pool now tracks idle age, ages out stale entries automatically, and supports explicit eviction by canvas size.
  • Engine now advances pool aging each frame.

• Bug Fixes

  • Better cleanup on canvas resize and removal of lingering resize callbacks.

• Bug Fixes

  • Per-frame internal render targets/textures are reliably released after use.

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Walkthrough

Engine integrates RenderTargetPool ticking and canvas-resize eviction. RenderTargetPool gains frame-age and size-based eviction with frame-tracking. BasicRenderPipeline returns per-pass leased targets to the pool. Tests cover reuse, age-based eviction, size-based eviction, and gc cleanup.

Changes

RenderTargetPool frame-age eviction and resource lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
RenderTargetPool frame-age tracking and eviction methods packages/core/src/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.ts	Introduces maxFreeAgeFrames field and parallel frame-tracking arrays for free pooled entries. Swap-pop helpers update allocation paths to keep tracking aligned. tick(currentFrame) destroys entries exceeding age threshold. evictBySize(width, height) destroys entries matching given dimensions. Updated gc() clears frame arrays. Centralized render-target destruction with double-destroy identity checks.
BasicRenderPipeline per-pass resource cleanup packages/core/src/RenderPipeline/BasicRenderPipeline.ts	Removes conditional free in render(). _drawRenderPass now explicitly returns leased _internalColorTarget and _copyBackgroundTexture to engine._renderTargetPool after rendering output work and nulls fields to prevent frame-to-frame leaks.
Engine canvas resize tracking and pool lifecycle packages/core/src/Engine.ts	Engine tracks last canvas width/height and registers a resize listener that calls evictBySize(oldW, oldH) when dimensions change. Engine update loop calls pool.tick(frameCount) each frame. Resize listener is removed during engine destruction.
RenderTargetPool eviction test coverage tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts	Validates allocation/reuse of freed render targets at matching dimensions, allocation of fresh targets at differing dimensions, frame-age eviction within and beyond maxFreeAgeFrames threshold, size-based eviction via evictBySize(), and full cleanup via gc(). Mirrors behaviors for standalone textures.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Engine
  participant RenderTargetPool
  participant BasicRenderPipeline
  participant Canvas

  BasicRenderPipeline->>RenderTargetPool: allocateRenderTarget(width,height)
  alt free match
    RenderTargetPool->>RenderTargetPool: _removeFreeRenderTargetAt(i)
    RenderTargetPool-->>BasicRenderPipeline: reuse RT
  else no match
    RenderTargetPool->>RenderTargetPool: create RT and textures
    RenderTargetPool-->>BasicRenderPipeline: new RT
  end

  BasicRenderPipeline->>RenderTargetPool: freeRenderTarget(rt) (end-of-pass)
  RenderTargetPool->>RenderTargetPool: record freed frame (engine.time.frameCount)

  Engine->>RenderTargetPool: tick(currentFrame) (each update)
  alt aged beyond maxFreeAgeFrames
    RenderTargetPool->>RenderTargetPool: destroy aged free entries
  end

  Canvas->>Engine: size change event
  Engine->>RenderTargetPool: evictBySize(oldWidth,oldHeight)
  RenderTargetPool->>RenderTargetPool: destroy matching-size free entries

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Poem

🐰 I hop through pools by frame-count rule,
I free old textures before they get cool,
When canvas grows, I toss the past,
Per-pass I return what never should last,
Tests cheer as I tidy the pool.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In `@tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts`:
- Around line 36-38: Add an afterAll teardown to mirror the beforeAll that
created the real WebGLEngine: locate the beforeAll that calls WebGLEngine.create
and the shared engine variable, and add an afterAll which properly tears down
the engine instance (call the engine's destruction method—e.g., engine.destroy()
or engine.dispose()—await it if it returns a promise) to avoid leaking WebGL
resources between tests.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts (1)

79-140: ⚡ Quick win

Add texture-path eviction/reuse coverage alongside RT coverage.

The suite validates RT paths well, but the new _freeTextureFrames + texture eviction codepaths (freeTexture, tick, evictBySize, gc) are currently untested. A couple of focused texture cases would catch frame-array drift/regressions quickly.

Suggested test additions

+  describe("texture free-list eviction", () => {
+    it("reuses a freed texture within maxFreeAgeFrames and evicts after threshold", () => {
+      pool.maxFreeAgeFrames = 2;
+      const t1 = pool.allocateTexture(
+        128, 128, TextureFormat.R8G8B8A8, false, false, TextureWrapMode.Clamp, TextureFilterMode.Bilinear
+      );
+      pool.freeTexture(t1);
+      const base = engine.time.frameCount;
+      pool.tick(base + 1);
+      const t2 = pool.allocateTexture(
+        128, 128, TextureFormat.R8G8B8A8, false, false, TextureWrapMode.Clamp, TextureFilterMode.Bilinear
+      );
+      expect(t2).to.equal(t1);
+      pool.freeTexture(t2);
+      pool.tick(base + 10);
+      expect(t1.destroyed).to.equal(true);
+    });
+
+    it("evictBySize removes only matching free textures", () => {
+      const a = pool.allocateTexture(
+        800, 600, TextureFormat.R8G8B8A8, false, false, TextureWrapMode.Clamp, TextureFilterMode.Bilinear
+      );
+      const b = pool.allocateTexture(
+        1024, 768, TextureFormat.R8G8B8A8, false, false, TextureWrapMode.Clamp, TextureFilterMode.Bilinear
+      );
+      pool.freeTexture(a);
+      pool.freeTexture(b);
+      pool.evictBySize(800, 600);
+      expect(a.destroyed).to.equal(true);
+      expect(b.destroyed).to.equal(false);
+    });
+  });

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts` around lines 79 -
140, Add tests mirroring the RenderTargetPool RT cases but exercising the
texture paths: allocate textures (use the texture allocator helper, e.g.,
allocTexture or alloc(pool, w,h, /*type*/ 'texture') if present), call
pool.freeTexture(...) and assert reuse within pool.maxFreeAgeFrames by using
pool.tick(frame), assert destruction after aging by checking texture.destroyed
and that re-allocation returns a new object, test pool.evictBySize(width,height)
only destroys matching free textures (leave others intact and reusable), and
verify pool.gc() destroys all entries; reference _freeTextureFrames,
freeTexture, tick, evictBySize, and gc to locate code paths.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/src/core/RenderPipeline/RenderTargetPool.test.ts`:
- Around line 79-140: Add tests mirroring the RenderTargetPool RT cases but
exercising the texture paths: allocate textures (use the texture allocator
helper, e.g., allocTexture or alloc(pool, w,h, /*type*/ 'texture') if present),
call pool.freeTexture(...) and assert reuse within pool.maxFreeAgeFrames by
using pool.tick(frame), assert destruction after aging by checking
texture.destroyed and that re-allocation returns a new object, test
pool.evictBySize(width,height) only destroys matching free textures (leave
others intact and reusable), and verify pool.gc() destroys all entries;
reference _freeTextureFrames, freeTexture, tick, evictBySize, and gc to locate
code paths.

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总结

本轮（a40750bb + af1b711）是两个纯清理 commit，无逻辑变更：

a40750bb：将 BasicRenderPipeline 中的 PipelineUtils.recreateRenderTargetIfNeeded / recreateTextureIfNeeded 替换为直接调用 pool.allocateRenderTarget / pool.allocateTexture。诊断正确——进入 _drawRenderPass 时 _internalColorTarget / _copyBackgroundTexture 必为 null（上一帧帧末已释放），recreate*IfNeeded 的"比较旧实例是否匹配"逻辑是走 null 分支的死路径，直接分配语义更清晰，不存在行为差异。

af1b711d：删掉刚加的行内注释，进一步精简。

所有历史 P1/P2/P3 均已关闭，本轮无新问题。LGTM。

[GuoLei1990]

总结

本轮（00149a04）是一个纯风格清理 commit，无逻辑变更：

删掉 _removeFreeRenderTargetAt / _removeFreeTextureAt 中的 index !== last 守卫（该守卫只是避免了一次无害的 self-assign，不影响正确性）和局部别名，留下更简洁的 swap-with-last 形式。诊断正确——JS 中数组 self-assign 零开销，守卫是多余代码。

所有历史 P1/P2/P3 均已关闭，本轮无新问题。LGTM。

[GuoLei1990]

总结

本轮（59d45b5ed）是一个纯简化重构，方向正确且顺带消解了历史遗留问题：

把 canvas resize 的处理从「size-keyed evict」改为「整表 flush」——_onCanvasResize 直接调 _renderTargetPool.gc()，删掉 evictBySize（17 行）、_lastCanvasWidth/_lastCanvasHeight 字段、以及 size 比较守卫，净减 72 行。

诊断成立，且我已逐项验证：

• evictBySize 确实有漏网：evictBySize(canvasW, canvasH) 只匹配尺寸恰好等于 canvas 的 entry。但 camera 支持 sub-viewport（Camera.pixelViewport = viewport 比例 × canvas 尺寸，见 Camera.ts:266、Camera.ts:590），所以内部 RT 可能是「canvas 派生但被缩放过」的尺寸——这类 entry 旧逻辑会漏掉，只能等 frame-age 才回收。改为整表 flush 后所有 canvas-coupled 尺寸一次性失效，符合 commit message 的描述。
• flush 安全性：gc() 只清 free list（_freeRenderTargets/_freeTextures），active lease 由 pipeline 持有、不在 free list 中，所以 resize 期间 flush 不会破坏正在使用的 RT，下一帧重新分配即可。
• 生命周期干净：listener 在构造期 addListener、_destroy 中 removeListener，gc() 在 destroy 路径也调用，无泄漏。
• 顺带关闭历史 P2：上一轮我提的 _lastCanvasWidth/_lastCanvasHeight 初始化时机问题，本轮因这两个字段被整体删除而自然消解。

evictBySize 的两组测试随方法一并删除，删除干净；gc() 自身仍有测试覆盖（describe("gc()")），而 _onCanvasResize 现在只是对已测过的 gc() 的一行委托，无需额外补测。

竞品对标：Godot RenderingDevice 在 framebuffer 配置变化时也是整体 invalidate 而非逐 entry diff，本改动与之一致——「resize 让所有屏幕耦合资源失效」本就是粗粒度操作，精确 size 匹配是过度设计。

所有历史 P1/P2/P3 均已关闭，本轮无新问题。LGTM。