There has been some speculation about the ‘Unified Memory’ module found in the latest drivers, but details are somewhat sparse..<\/p>\n
From the product Release Highlights: More information was found on the negativo17<\/strong> website:<\/p>\n ”…the kernel module packages contain the main Nvidia kernel module (nvidia.ko) but also the Unified Memory kernel module [nvidia_uvm.ko – Ed] and support for multiple kernel modules as specified by the Nvidia documentation. These are optional and can be configured manually for CUDA enabled systems that need to address a specific GPU or to share memory between the CPU and GPU in CUDA programs.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n So – the bottom line is, the nvidia_uvm.ko<\/strong><\/em> module is not needed yet, and most ‘desktop’ users will probably not need it , anyway….<\/p>\n As one comment (birdie<\/strong>) on the DevZone forum mentions.\u00a0 ”This module is currently not being used by anything, so sleep tight.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 November 18, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been some speculation about the ‘Unified Memory’ module found in the latest drivers, but details are somewhat sparse.. From the product Release Highlights: ……….. ”Added nvidia-uvm.ko, the NVIDIA Unified Memory kernel module, to the NVIDIA Linux driver package. This kernel module provides support for the new Unified Memory feature in an upcoming CUDA release.” More …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14,18,19],"tags":[714,713,277,712,288,711],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-more-info","tag-not-needed","tag-nvidia-2","tag-nvidia_uvm-ko","tag-opinion-2","tag-unified-memory-module"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n”Added nvidia-uvm.ko, the NVIDIA Unified Memory kernel module, to the NVIDIA Linux driver package. This kernel module provides support for the new Unified Memory feature in an upcoming CUDA release.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n