On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> GPUDirect is only about using the same host buffer for DMA from/to both
> the NIC and the GPU. Without GPUDirect, you have a host buffer for the
> GPU and another one for IB (looks like some strange memory registration
> problem to me...), and you have to memcpy between them in the middle .
>
> We're all confused with the name "GPUDirect" because we remember people
> doing DMA directly between the NIC and a GPU or SCSI disk ten years ago.
> GPUDirect doesn't go that far unfortunately :/
Correct. GPUDirect is a brilliant marketing name. Its name has nothing to do with what it really is: the ability to register the same buffer to both CUDA and OpenFabrics.
As Brice says: GPUDirect does NOT send/receive data directly from the accelerator's memory.
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