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LibVF.IO
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Arc-Compute / LibVF.IO

LibVF.IO

A vendor neutral GPU multiplexing tool driven by VFIO & YAML.

5Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
915GitHub stars
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What it is

A vendor neutral GPU multiplexing tool driven by VFIO & YAML.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-10-21 16:18:44 UTC to 2022-09-11 19:34:12 UTC.

01232021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 20212021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsSep 2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Oct 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 20212021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Perhaps not the "best" source code I've ever read, but libVF.io had some beautiful code for what's generally gnarly system-glue code. The libVF.io iommu setup code is a good example and inspires me to think that system-glue code doesn't need to be gross or impenetrable: https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/blob/master/src/libv... Another one I've appreciated reading (and learned more about 2d graphics from) is Pixie, a 2d graphics library written in Nim. It's strongly affected how I write similar code. Here's the implementation of a fair subset of SVG paths: https://github.com/treeform/pixie/blob/master/src/pixie/path... And one last one for basic algorithms which I'd use to teach intro to data structures any day: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/version-1-6/lib/pure/al... Of course Knuth's original code is still some of the bes
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t classic code. K&R's original C book is a classic. (edited formatting and tweak descriptions)
In Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/tree/master/ plus https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass works pretty well. If you use an Intel GPU, particularly one of their new Arc dedicated GPUs, it supports the functionality on the consumer grade hardware without any trickery and you just need Looking Glass to map the outputs. If you really want multiple GPUs though you can also use a normal 1-in-4-out type PCIe switch and save a lot of cost on Thunderbolt components in-between. Low bandwidth ones are particularly dirt cheap due to crypto mining volume. Keep an eye out for ACS support or you may have to use an ACS override patch though.
In The death of the PCIe expansion card

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