[afr0ck]

Well, it's not impossible. It's just software after all. You can mmap a remote device file, but you need OS support to do the magical paging for you, probably some sort of page ownership tracking protocol like in HMM [1], but outside a coherence domain.

I was once working on CXL [2] and memory ownership tracking in the Linux kernel and wanted to play with Nvidia GPUs, but then I hit a wall when I realised that a lot of the functionalities were running on the GSP or the firmware blob with very little to no documentation, so I ended up generally not liking the system software stack of Nvidia and I gave up the project. UVM subsystem in the open kernel driver is a bit of an exception, but a lot of the control path is still handled and controlled from closed-source cuda libraries in userspace.

tldr; it's very hard to do systems hacking with Nvidia GPUs.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/vm/hmm.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link

[monocasa]

Yeah, the Nvidia stuff isn't really made to be hacked on.

I'd check out the AMD side since you can at least have a full open source GPU stack to play with, and they make a modicum of effort to document their gpus.