[Nouveau] A request for Virtual GPU based on Nouveau

[Martin Peres]

On 25/02/17 05:39, Zhengjie (PARC) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m a developer from Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. China. I’m working on
> GPU Virtualization.
>
> I found some academic papers on google which describe how to virtualize
> GPU on Cloud based on Nouveau, Such as < TimeGraph: GPU Scheduling for
> Real-Time Multi-Tasking Environments >  <Gdev: First-Class GPU Resource
> Management in the Operating System> written by Ph.D Shinpei Kato.
>
> I know the nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre
> software drivers for nVidia cards
> <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/>. Maybe
> the nouveau project developers can do something to help GPU
> Virtualization. So I’d like to ask whether there is the possibility of
> cooperation on GPU Virtualization between Huawei and the nouveau project.
>
> Maybe there is another way for cooperation. But I don’t know how. Or you
> can give some advices to us on GPU Virtualization based on nouveau. That
> will be grateful. I’m looking forward to you reply.
>

Nouveau's design is meant for allowing virtualization, so you should not 
have too much trouble getting something to work, provided you can make 
hypercalls. Check out NVIF in the nouveau's source.

Martin