Cannot Retrieve GPU PIDs from DCGM Metrics

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Hi, I'm using NVIDIA GPU Operator to expose GPUs on my OpenShift cluster, and trying to create a PromQL aggregation to correlate GPU PIDs (Process ID) to K8s Pods.

From the exported DCGM metrics, I saw no metric with a label representing GPU PID.
In the DCGM release notes, the following is mentioned:

The following features have been dropped or deprecated starting with DCGM 3.0:
The following field identifiers have been removed:
DCGM_FI_DEV_GRAPHICS_PIDS
DCGM_FI_DEV_COMPUTE_PIDS
...

My question - is there a way to retrieve this info in the current version?
I originally submitted this issue to the DCGM Exporter GitHub repo.

The workaround I've implemented for the time being is running a custom DaemonSet on all GPU nodes, running the following command to correlate GPU PID and Pod UID, and using this as a custom metric:

$ nvidia-smi --query-compute-apps=pid --format=csv,noheader | xargs -I{} sh -c "echo -n '{}'; echo -n ','; grep -oPm1 '[0-9a-f]{8}(_[0-9a-f]{4}){3}_[0-9a-f]{12}' /proc/{}/cgroup | sed 's/_/-/g'" 
114855,c8b8d8a2-5e73-4c1a-b8e3-735e8a4e56d3
115044,1f7d9c8e-4a4b-455b-9b0d-9a2d1f4e6c2f

NOTE: It requires setting hostPid: true in the Pod spec.

Versions:
OpenShift: v4.12.35
Kubernetes: v1.25.12+ba5cc25
NVIDIA GPU Operator: v23.3.2
DCGM Exporter: v3.1.7

Start with the DCGM 3.0 release notes and the removed DCGM_FI_DEV_GRAPHICS_PIDS and DCGM_FI_DEV_COMPUTE_PIDS fields, then compare the related DCGM Exporter issue. Determine whether the current DCGM version exposes an alternative path for correlating GPU PIDs to pods; done means documenting or identifying a supported retrieval method.