How to detect iGPU free memory

Open
#166 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start with the reported entry points, zesDeviceEnumMemoryModules and zesMemoryGetState, and compare their behavior on an iGPU with the SYCL free_memory example in sycl_ext_intel_device_info.md. Reproduce the zero pCount and free-memory results with ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN=1, then determine whether the existing APIs support integrated graphics memory before documenting or addressing the observed behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

question

Hi, I'd like to ask how to use level-zero/sycl to detect available memory of Intel iGPUs (e.g., Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, PCI ID: 46A0, codename: Alder Lake-P).

I found relevant APIs in level-zero, such as zesDeviceEnumMemoryModules and zesMemoryGetState. Unfortunately, when I call zesDeviceEnumMemoryModules on a system with only iGPU, the return value of pCount is 0. Therefore, I cannot get the iGPU memory information through zesMemoryGetState.

i also found how to use sycl to detect free memory in this doc, here is the code

if (dev.has(aspect::ext_intel_free_memory)) {
  auto FreeMemory = dev.get_info<ext::intel::info::device::free_memory>();
}

I ran this func with set ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN=1, but I got the free_mem size is 0.

note that these issues don't appear on Intel dGPUs.
Windows Task Manager can directly show the total and used memory of iGPU. How to implement this function? Are there any code examples?

Dominant language
C++
Stars
335
Forks
140
Avg merge
12h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
5

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from oneapi-src/level-zero

All issues in oneapi-src/level-zero

Similar issues

More C++ issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.