NVIDIA/gdrcopy
A fast GPU memory copy library based on NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology
Is NVIDIA/gdrcopy beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to NVIDIA/gdrcopy to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 1.4k
- Forks
- 198
- Open beginner issues
- 2
- Indexed issues
- 67
- Dominant language
- C
- License
- MIT
- Last GitHub push
- Jun 15, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 20, 2026
- Contributing guide
- No contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- help wanted
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
How to contribute to NVIDIA/gdrcopy
- There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
- Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100
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GDRCopy build/installation fails on kernel v6.17 and aboveMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 135 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
NVIDIA/gdrcopy#335 · 17 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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RPM installation fails with modprobe: FATAL: Module gdrdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/6.9/May be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 424 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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gddrv build fails with error: redefinition of 'vm_flags_set'May be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 424 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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R540 driver incompatibility with nv-p2p.hMay be free again @Calderweis claimed this 424 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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DEBIAN_VERSION missing in gdrcopy 2.4.4May be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 639 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Observing Host OS panic/crash due to use-after-free error related to CPU OS memory when `gdr_unmap` is not called before `gdr_close`May be free again @realarnavgoel claimed this 672 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Observing GPU memory and/or CPU OS memory leaks with `use_persistent_mapping` enabled in `gdrdrv` during multi-process terminationMay be free again @realarnavgoel claimed this 672 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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scripts/test_gdrdrv_HAVE_VM_FLAGS_SET.sh should honour user-defined kernel source locationMay be free again @efegokdemir claimed this 53 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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"gdrcopy_sanity" failing with Nvidia 560 drivers on A100May be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 784 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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How much the size of GDR can pin? Is there differences on Tesla and Quadro?May be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 837 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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MAINT: gdr_unmap segfault on master branch via NVSHMEM 2.10.1 on Cray Slingshot 11 with cuFFTMpMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 920 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Improve the error report of gdrcopy_pplat when the CUDA kernel cannot be launchedMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 1043 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Ubuntu 22 - dpkg: error processing package gdrdrv-dkms:amd64 (--install) during installation of gdrcopyMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 1233 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Ubuntu 22.04 - gdrcopy 2.3.1 dependency problemMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 1256 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 24/100
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GPUDirect VideoOpenquestion
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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dependenses in gdrcopy.specMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 1705 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100
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bug enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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benchmark and eventually support MOVDIRI/MOVDIR64B on Sapphire Rapids XeonMay be free again @pakmarkthub claimed this 1435 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100