Handle --gpus flag using CDI #4617
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AkihiroSuda
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Thanks, does this need any change on https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/blob/main/docs/gpu.md ?
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I have updated this as well in the latest revision.
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Yes, most likely. I will look at updating the docs too.
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This change switches to using CDI to handle the --gpus flag. This removes the custom implementation that invoked the nvidia-container-cli directly. This mechanism does not align with existing implementations. Signed-off-by: Evan Lezar <elezar@nvidia.com>
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This change switches to using CDI to handle the --gpus flag. This removes the custom implementation that invoked the nvidia-container-cli directly. This mechanism does not align with existing implementations.
See also:
ctr: Map ctr --gpus requests to NVIDIA CDI device requests containerd#12537docker: Use cdi device driver to handle nvidia --gpus requests moby/moby#50228