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@amd-guangren amd-guangren released this 30 Oct 16:17
· 2 commits to staging since this release

We are excited to announce a new open-source release of our GIM SR-IOV Driver.
This release adds MI350 CPX support and SMI CLI command improvement on top of the regular update and bug fixes.

Hardware / Features Supported for this Release

Hardware Host OS Guest OS ROCm version Number of VFs per GPU Infinity Fabric (XGMI) Configuration
AMD Instinct MI355X Ubuntu 24.04 RHEL 9.6, RHEL 10, Ubuntu 24.04 ROCm 7.1 1 between 8 GPUs
AMD Instinct MI350X Ubuntu 24.04 RHEL 9.6, RHEL 10, Ubuntu 24.04 ROCm 7.1 1 between 8 GPUs
AMD Instinct MI325X Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 ROCm 7.1 1 between 8 GPUs
AMD Instinct MI300X Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 ROCm 7.1 1 or 8* between 8 GPUs
AMD Instinct MI300X RHEL 9.4 RHEL 9.4 ROCm 7.1 1 or 8* between 8 GPUs
AMD Instinct MI210X RHEL 9.4 RHEL 9.4, Ubuntu 22.04 ROCm 7.1 1 between 4/8 GPUs
AMD Radeon PRO V710 Ubuntu 24.04 Ubuntu 24.04 ROCm 7.1 1 or 4 or 12 N/A

Partition Mode Support

Number of VFs per GPU Dynamic Compute Partitioning NPS1 NPS2 NPS4
1 SPX (Default) MI300X, MI325X, MI35XX
1 DPX MI35XX
1 CPX MI35XX (Preview)
8* CPX MI300X (Preview)

For the full list of supported partition modes and the relationship between partition mode and number of VFs per GPU, see the GPU Partitioning.

* Multi-VF (8 VF) Support requires a compatible firmware BKC bundle for the GPU.
Please refer to the ROCm Firmware Compatibility Table for the list of required firmware versions and supported configurations.


Host AMD SMI Versions

  • Library: 40.0.6
  • Tool: 30.0.3

Please checkout out SMI doc for more details.


Getting Started

Please check out our User Guide for instructions on how to set up GIM and example configurations to run SR-IOV enabled VMs.


Known Issues

With NPS1/SPX and 8VMs (1VF per VM) on MI300, triggering reset via "/sys/kernel/debug/kfd/hang_hws" causes the GPU to become unusable. Rebooting the guest should solve the problem.