This path is only taken if the much faster check of "is the buffer rented at all" is triggered, so it doesn't actually end up costing too much, and the time saved by not ending render passes (and on gpu for not waiting on barriers) is probably helpful.
Avoids ending render passes to update buffer data (not all the time)
- 140-180 to 35-45 in SMO metro kingdom (these updates are in the UI)
- Very variable 60-150(!) to 16-25 in mario kart 8 (these updates are in the UI)
As well as allowing more data to be preloaded persistently, this will also allow more data to be loaded in the preload buffer, which should be faster as it doesn't need to insert barriers between draws. (and on tbdr, does not need to flush and reload tile memory)
Improves performance in GPU limited scenarios. Should notably improve performance on TBDR gpus. Still a lot more to do here.
May avoid issues with drivers with NVIDIA on linux/older gpus on windows when using large buffers (?)
Also some performance things and fixes issues with opengl games loading textures weird.