ROCm / ROCm/hipObject

[Feature]: Allow hipObject to register standard CPU RAM in addition to GPU VRAM

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Since Sep 18, 2026.

  • #37 by @copilot-swe-agent — open
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Description

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With hipObject today, we're bound to allocating in GPU memory (specifically hipObjectBufRegister() which calls hipMalloc.)

It'd be a convenient testing vehicle for the library, our users, and storage vendors if they had the option to register memory with standard CPU RAM buffer on a standard client machine (no AMD GPU available, no ROCm software stack).

Ask: Make it possible as an option to allocate CPU memory for S3oRDMA transfers, potentially using hipHostMalloc or malloc.

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