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…sion start The driver's default memory pool and graph memory pool each permanently reserve roughly twice the installed device memory of virtual address space, and neither can be capped or released. On a large-memory GPU with a bounded per-process address space, whether the second reservation still finds a contiguous range depends on how fragmented the space has become by the time some test needs it, which is what makes the failures in NVIDIA#2381 intermittent. Measurements and documentation references: NVIDIA#2381 (comment) Take both reservations up front in a session-scoped autouse fixture so they land back to back in a nearly empty address space. This does not reduce the footprint; it makes the outcome deterministic. If either is refused the session aborts with an explanation, since every later test needing that pool would fail the same way and a cascade of identical OOM errors says nothing about the cause. Available address space is reported before and after via cuMemAddressReserve rather than an OS query, so the measurement behaves the same on Windows and Linux. CUDA_CORE_TEST_SKIP_EARLY_RESERVATION=1 disables the fixture; CUDA_CORE_TEST_FORCE_RESERVATION_FAILURE=1 exercises the abort path.
…orted Both driver-managed pools require mempool support, so on a device without it there is nothing to reserve and nothing to pre-empt. Reporting a failed reservation there would abort the session, when the correct behaviour is to carry on: the tests that need pools already skip themselves via Device.properties.memory_pools_supported, and the rest still run.
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closes #2381
Root cause and measurements are in this comment; in short, the driver's default memory pool and graph memory pool each permanently reserve ~2x installed device memory of virtual address space, and neither can be capped or released.
A session-scoped autouse fixture now takes both reservations up front, so they land back to back in a nearly empty address space instead of whenever test order happens to trigger them. This does not reduce the footprint; it just makes the big reservations deterministic. If either reservation is refused the session aborts with an explanation, rather than cascading ~194 identical OOM failures that say nothing about the cause.
Available address space is reported before and after via
cuMemAddressReserverather than an OS query, so it behaves the same on Windows and Linux. Devices without mempool support are skipped, not failed. Escape hatches:CUDA_CORE_TEST_SKIP_EARLY_RESERVATION=1disables the fixture (use as the control when measuring whether it helps or is still needed).The fixture can be removed once either driver-side improvement lands:
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cuGraphAddMemAllocNodecurrently acceptspoolProps.maxSizebut ignores it); orfixture's own
remaining headroom: N more pool-sized reservationsline reports —an N comfortably above 1 means ordering can no longer matter on that machine.
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