[PATCH v1 0/4] GPU Direct RDMA (P2P DMA) for Device Private Pages

Alistair Popple apopple at nvidia.com
Wed Oct 16 22:22:19 UTC 2024


Yonatan Maman <ymaman at nvidia.com> writes:

> On 16/10/2024 7:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 06:23:44PM +0300, Yonatan Maman wrote:
>>> From: Yonatan Maman <Ymaman at Nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> This patch series aims to enable Peer-to-Peer (P2P) DMA access in
>>> GPU-centric applications that utilize RDMA and private device pages. This
>>> enhancement is crucial for minimizing data transfer overhead by allowing
>>> the GPU to directly expose device private page data to devices such as
>>> NICs, eliminating the need to traverse system RAM, which is the native
>>> method for exposing device private page data.
>> Please tone down your marketing language and explain your factual
>> changes.  If you make performance claims back them by numbers.
>> 
>
> Got it, thanks! I'll fix that. Regarding performance, we’re achieving
> over 10x higher bandwidth and 10x lower latency using perftest-rdma,
> especially (with a high rate of GPU memory access).

The performance claims still sound a bit vague. Please make sure you
include actual perftest-rdma performance numbers from before and after
applying this series when you repost.


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