"GMEM" Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

[phoronix]

Phoronix: "GMEM" Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

Generalized Memory Management "GMEM" has been proposed as a new solution to be developed for the Linux kernel to deal with memory management for external memory devices like the growing number of accelerators coming to market...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Proposal-GMEM

[coder]

Sounds long overdue.

[erniv2]

I don´t understand why it´s so complicated on linux to map device ram into system ram on windows thats a given every PCIe device can do this if i hook up a 8gb gpu and have 32gb sytem ram the gpu gets 24gb ram it caan hog up to 50% system ram for it´s use.

[yump]

I wonder how far this goes toward solving https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...1#note_2012809?