There are all kinds of accelerators out there for various sorts of things. It would be a shame if you chose an approach just for GPU's.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone given any thought on how to support something like top for > accelerators or GPUs? We have fdinfo, but using fdinfo requires extra > privileges (CAP_SYS_PTRACE) and there is not a particularly efficient > way to even discover what processes are using the GPU. There is the > clients list in debugfs, but that is also admin only. Tools like ps > and top use /proc/<pid>/stat and statm. Do you think there would be > an appetite for something like /proc/<pid>/drm/stat, statm, etc.? > This would duplicate much of what is in fdinfo, but would be available > to regular users. > > Thanks, > > Alex >
