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Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:59AM (#48383411)
I don't think it would help. It's not just a software issue that can be fixed in the kernel, the hardware fundamentally isn't part of the cache coherency system of the CPU.
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Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux by tiberious726 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:18PM (#48387668)
This is correct, look at IBM's CAPI for an example of the needed hardware
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