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nvidia-rhel8.md

Environment

RHEL 8.4 4.18.0-305.19.1.el8_4.x86_64

Verify setup

lspci -nnv |grep -i nvidia

e.g.

# lspci -nnv |grep -i nvidia
00:1e.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204GL [Tesla M60] [10de:13f2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:113a]

Install

echo 'blacklist nouveau' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo
dnf module install nvidia-driver:latest -y

Then reboot.

Note, if secure boot is enabled, nvidia kernel modules may not be able to load. Refer to this to disable secure boot if necessary. After reboot,

nvidia-smi

Here is the output

# nvidia-smi
Thu Sep 16 14:53:09 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02    Driver Version: 470.57.02    CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla M60           Off  | 00000000:00:1E.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   35C    P0    38W / 150W |      0MiB /  7618MiB |    100%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

podman

Install podman and crun, and ensure crun as the default oci runtime

dnf install -y crun
dnf install -y podman
cp /usr/share/containers/containers.conf /etc/containers/containers.conf
sed -i 's/^# runtime = "crun"/runtime = "crun"/;' /etc/containers/containers.conf

Ensure Cgroup v2 version

podman info |grep -i cgroup

If the cgroup version is not v2, do the following to swtich to v2

grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1"
reboot

nvidia-docker

(note, currently no rhel 8.4 support yet, so use rhel 8.3 for now)

curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/rhel8.3/nvidia-docker.repo | tee /etc/yum.repos.d/nvidia-docker.repo
dnf install nvidia-container-toolkit -y

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/dgx-selinux/master/bin/RHEL7/nvidia-container.pp
semodule -i nvidia-container.pp
nvidia-container-cli -k list | restorecon -v -f -

Use the following /etc/nvidia-container-runtime/config.toml for rootless access

disable-require = false
#swarm-resource = "DOCKER_RESOURCE_GPU"
#accept-nvidia-visible-devices-envvar-when-unprivileged = true
#accept-nvidia-visible-devices-as-volume-mounts = false

[nvidia-container-cli]
#root = "/run/nvidia/driver"
#path = "/usr/bin/nvidia-container-cli"
environment = []
debug = "/var/log/nvidia-container-toolkit.log"
#ldcache = "/etc/ld.so.cache"
load-kmods = false
no-cgroups = false
#user = "root:video"
ldconfig = "@/sbin/ldconfig"

[nvidia-container-runtime]
debug = "/var/log/nvidia-container-runtime.log"

Test nvidia + podman

# podman run --rm  --privileged  nvidia/samples:vectoradd-cuda11.2.1-ubi8
[Vector addition of 50000 elements]
Copy input data from the host memory to the CUDA device
CUDA kernel launch with 196 blocks of 256 threads
Copy output data from the CUDA device to the host memory
Test PASSED
Done
# podman run --privileged -ti nvidia/cuda:12.1.0-base-ubi8 nvidia-smi
Thu Sep 16 18:26:26 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02    Driver Version: 470.57.02    CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla M60           Off  | 00000000:00:1E.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   38C    P0    38W / 150W |      0MiB /  7618MiB |     98%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Run microshift

Refer to MicroShift Doc for installation guide.

Install nvidia GPU operator

helm repo add nvdp https://nvidia.github.io/k8s-device-plugin    && helm repo update
helm install --generate-name nvdp/nvidia-device-plugin --namespace kube-system
# kubectl logs -n kube-system                     nvidia-device-plugin-1632319880-nq9gs
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Loading NVML
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Starting FS watcher.
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Starting OS watcher.
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Retreiving plugins.
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Starting GRPC server for 'nvidia.com/gpu'
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Starting to serve 'nvidia.com/gpu' on /var/lib/kubelet/device-plugins/nvidia-gpu.sock
2021/09/22 14:37:43 Registered device plugin for 'nvidia.com/gpu' with Kubelet

image

kubectl describe nodes image

Run a sample GPU test

[root@rhel ~]# cat gpu.t
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: gpu-operator-test
spec:
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
  containers:
  - name: cuda-vector-add
    image: "nvidia/samples:vectoradd-cuda10.2"
    resources:
      limits:
         nvidia.com/gpu: 1
[root@rhel ~]# kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE                       NAME                                    READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
default                         gpu-operator-test                       0/1     Completed   0          40s
kube-system                     kube-flannel-ds-45g7v                   1/1     Running     0          4m
kube-system                     nvidia-device-plugin-1632322815-kg4jq   1/1     Running     0          2m47s
kubevirt-hostpath-provisioner   kubevirt-hostpath-provisioner-lbpsz     1/1     Running     0          4m1s
openshift-dns                   dns-default-76jzs                       3/3     Running     0          4m
openshift-ingress               router-default-6d8c9d8f57-qqbcv         1/1     Running     1          4m
openshift-service-ca            service-ca-64547678c6-wmgs4             1/1     Running     2          4m1s
[root@rhel ~]kubectl logs -n default                         gpu-operator-test
[Vector addition of 50000 elements]
Copy input data from the host memory to the CUDA device
CUDA kernel launch with 196 blocks of 256 threads
Copy output data from the CUDA device to the host memory
Test PASSED
Done

update

  • When installing nvidia operator helm chart, certain gpu are not supported, using this value in running helm
# more gpu-operator-values.yaml 
validator:
  driver:
    env:
      - name: DISABLE_DEV_CHAR_SYMLINK_CREATION
        value: "true"

helm install --wait --generate-name     -n gpu-operator --create-namespace     nvidia/gpu-operator -f gpu-operator-values.yaml
  • nvidia container runtime needs to find ldconfig.real. Make a link /sbin/ldconfig.real -> /usr/sbin/ldconfig
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rootfs commented Feb 6, 2024

Install NVIDIA driver on FC 39
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/fedora-nvidia-drivers

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