feat: VRAM booster also for drivers that name their region vidmem (or numbered), NVIDIA included once its driver registers it

This commit is contained in:
theupriser committed 2026-09-27 16:20:36 +02:00
1 parent bbc742940c
commit 268c2f96b2
2 files changed
+15 -6

No files matched your search

+10 -4
View File
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# are evicted first, so a game that needs most of it doesn't spill into
# system RAM and stutter. The kernel side is the dmem cgroup controller
# (7.2; amdgpu and xe register their VRAM, NVIDIA's driver doesn't), so it's
# only offered when the kernel lists a VRAM region of at least 2 GB. CachyOS packages the userspace
# only offered when the kernel lists a VRAM region (vram or vidmem) of at least 2 GB. CachyOS packages the userspace
# side: dmemcg-booster (a system service that enables the controller and
# sets the limits, plus a user service) and plasma-foreground-booster, which
# tells it which window is in front on the desktop. The latter only starts
@@ -13,14 +13,20 @@
VRAM_PKGS=(dmemcg-booster plasma-foreground-booster)
VRAM_MIN_BYTES=$((2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024))
# The regions the kernel's dmem controller lists (a file under /sys/fs/cgroup;
# a variable so tests can point it at a copy).
VRAM_CAPACITY="${WIZARD_VRAM_CAPACITY:-/sys/fs/cgroup/dmem.capacity}"
vram_supported() {
# WIZARD_VRAM_FAKE_NVIDIA=1 (tests): as with an NVIDIA card.
[[ -n "${WIZARD_VRAM_FAKE_NVIDIA:-}" ]] && return 1
# Only for a GPU with its own VRAM: an integrated GPU registers a small
# carve-out too, but mostly uses system RAM, so there's little to boost.
awk -v min="$VRAM_MIN_BYTES" '$1 ~ /\/vram$/ && $2 >= min { found = 1 } END { exit !found }' \
/sys/fs/cgroup/dmem.capacity 2>/dev/null
# By what the driver registers, not the brand: amdgpu and xe name the
# region "vram", other drivers "vidmem" (numbered with several), so an
# NVIDIA driver that registers its memory is offered right away.
awk -v min="$VRAM_MIN_BYTES" '$1 ~ /\/(vram|vidmem)[0-9]*$/ && $2 >= min { found = 1 } END { exit !found }' \
"$VRAM_CAPACITY" 2>/dev/null
}
vram_nvidia() {
@@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ vram_nvidia() {
return 1
}
# Shown where it works, and greyed out with an NVIDIA card, whose driver
# Shown where it works, and greyed out with an NVIDIA card whose driver
# doesn't register its VRAM with the kernel (yet): so it's clear why it
# can't be turned on. Hidden elsewhere (integrated graphics, older kernel).
vram_available() { vram_supported || vram_status || vram_nvidia; }