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reviewed by: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

This repository implements a system to use NVIDIA GPU VRAM as swap space on Linux via the NBD (Network Block Device) protocol. The core component is a userspace daemon (nbd-vram) that allocates VRAM using the CUDA driver API and serves it as a block device over a Unix socket. The Linux kernel's NBD driver connects to this socket, exposing /dev/nbdX as a swap device. The system includes scripts for connection/disconnection, power management (automatically disabling swap on battery), and proper handling of suspend/resume to avoid GPU-related deadlocks. Key features include memory locking to prevent the daemon from being swapped out, using PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER to avoid deadlocks under memory pressure, and multi-threaded request batching to amortize CUDA synchronization overhead. The solution works with any CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPU without requiring kernel modifications or NVIDIA's P2P API, which is restricted to professional GPUs.

RATING8.6/10
QUALITY8.5/10
MAINTENANCEactive
DRIFTlow
CONTRIBUTORS1
VELOCITY0.84
OPEN ISSUES5
CLOSED ISSUES10
LAST COMMIT3 months ago
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