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arxiv: 2605.26461 · v1 · pith:2TL2IXJBnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 💻 cs.DC

Characterization-Guided GPU Fault Resilience in NVIDIA MPS

Rixin Liu , Xingqi Cui , Kaijian Wang , Xinheng Ding , Zirui Liu , Yuke Wang , Jiarong Xing This is my paper

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keywords GPU fault resilienceNVIDIA MPSfault isolationvirtual memory sharingmulti-process serviceGPU driver modulefault characterization
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The pith

NVIDIA MPS fault resilience isolates dominant memory faults via open driver changes and recovers others with virtual memory state sharing.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

NVIDIA Multi-Process Service shares a GPU across concurrent processes to raise utilization, yet one process fault terminates every co-runner. The paper first maps the full pipeline of GPU fault handling and finds memory-related faults to be both the most common and the ones reachable by software edits inside the open driver kernel module. It then builds two mechanisms: direct isolation of those memory faults at the driver level, plus a virtual-memory sharing layer that lets the system restore state quickly for faults trapped inside proprietary code. Experiments on multiple GPUs and workloads confirm the approach stops fault spread and keeps overhead low, opening MPS to settings that previously avoided it for resilience reasons.

Core claim

The paper establishes that a characterization of end-to-end GPU fault pipelines reveals memory faults as the dominant class isolatable by edits to the open driver kernel module, while remaining faults can be contained through virtual-memory-based GPU-resident state sharing, together enabling effective handling of faults in MPS with minimal overhead.

What carries the argument

Two complementary mechanisms: fault isolation for memory-related faults performed by software intervention in the open GPU driver kernel module, and fast recovery via virtual memory based GPU-resident state sharing for faults whose handling stays inside proprietary software.

If this is right

  • Memory faults no longer propagate across MPS processes once the open-driver isolation is applied.
  • Faults inside proprietary code can be recovered without full process restart by reusing shared virtual-memory state.
  • The combined mechanisms maintain low overhead when evaluated on varied GPUs and workloads.
  • MPS becomes usable in multi-tenant clusters that require fault containment.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same characterization method could be repeated on future GPU generations to check whether memory faults remain the dominant isolatable class.
  • If more of the driver stack becomes open, the isolation mechanism could be extended to additional fault categories.
  • Virtual-memory state sharing might shorten recovery times in other GPU sharing schemes that lack MPS-style process separation.
  • The approach could be tested on workloads with higher fault rates to quantify how overhead scales with fault frequency.

Load-bearing premise

The systematic fault characterization correctly identifies memory-related faults as dominant and reachable for isolation through changes inside the open driver kernel module.

What would settle it

A memory fault injected into one MPS process that still terminates co-running processes despite the driver isolation changes, or a measured recovery latency that exceeds the low-overhead bound reported for the tested workloads.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.26461 by Jiarong Xing, Kaijian Wang, Rixin Liu, Xingqi Cui, Xinheng Ding, Yuke Wang, Zirui Liu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the GPU execution model. Buffer DMA (PBDMA) unit serves as the host interface, read￾ing commands from the selected channel’s pushbuffer, pars￾ing them, and dispatching them to the appropriate GPU en￾gine for execution: the Compute/Graphics Engine, composed of an array of Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), executes com￾putation kernels, while the Copy Engine (CE) handles data movement between … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The GPU fault lifecycle and its handling process. ❸ Within UVM: Fatal Fault Reporting. Once a fault is classified as fatal ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Cold restart latency breakdown for vLLM serving (Qwen2.5) across model sizes. only at the carefully chosen interception point. By then, a fault has already occurred, and the hardware has stopped the faulting execution before UVM reports the fault to RM/GSP (Insight #2). Thus, the faulting client can be terminated with￾out killing an actively running GPU workload or triggering secondary propagation through … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Throughput over time under fault isolation. Benign M1 M2 CPU-res.M2 GPU-res. M3 0 1 2 3 4 Fault-Handling Time (ms) 225.7 s 130.9 s 3.28 ms 2.28 ms 1.70 ms [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Throughput over time under fault recovery. identification to GPU readiness for replay or resume [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Recovery time microbenchmarks. (a) Our approach achieves 1,155–1,471× speedup over cold restart and 2.4–16.9× over sleep-only. (b) KV cache sharing eliminates prompt-length-dependent prefill recomputation. (c) KV cache sharing bounds decode-phase recovery to at most 𝑁 forward passes. 0.5B 1.5B 3B 7B 14B Model size (Qwen2.5) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 GPU memory (GiB) +579 MiB 19.7% +589 MiB 11.1% +609 MiB 7.3% +6… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: System overhead of active-standby recovery. Synchronization Latency. We measure the raw latency of a single forward-state synchronization operation. Since the payload depends on per-request sequence length rather than model architecture, we fix the model and sweep sequence length from 8 to 16,000 tokens. Median latency increases only slightly, from 5.95 𝜇s to 7.96 𝜇s, and remains below 10 𝜇s even at the lo… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS) enables fine-grained GPU sharing by allowing multiple processes to execute concurrently on the same GPU, making it an important mechanism for improving GPU utilization. However, MPS has weak fault resilience: a fault in one process can terminate all co-running processes, limiting its adoption in resilience-critical settings such as multi-tenant GPU clusters. In this work, we design fault-resilient MPS to solve this problem. Our design is guided by insights from a systematic characterization of GPU faults and a deep analysis of their end-to-end processing pipeline. Based on these insights, we design two complementary mechanisms. A fault isolation mechanism for the dominant memory-related faults that can be fully isolated by software intervention in the open GPU driver kernel module. For other faults whose process is within proprietary software, we design a practical mechanism -- fast recovery using virtual memory based GPU-resident state sharing. Our evaluation on different GPUs and workloads shows that these mechanisms can handle corresponding faults effectively with minimal overhead.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims to improve fault resilience in NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS) via a characterization-guided design. It identifies memory-related faults as dominant and proposes two mechanisms: (1) isolation of these faults through software changes exclusively in the open GPU driver kernel module, and (2) fast recovery for remaining faults via virtual-memory-based GPU-resident state sharing without proprietary access. Evaluation across GPUs and workloads is asserted to demonstrate effective fault handling with minimal overhead.

Significance. If the mechanisms are shown to work as described, the work would meaningfully advance practical GPU sharing in multi-tenant clusters by addressing MPS's current lack of fault isolation. The characterization-driven split between open-module and VM-sharing approaches, if substantiated, offers a pragmatic path that avoids full proprietary reverse-engineering.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that dominant memory-related faults 'can be fully isolated by software intervention in the open GPU driver kernel module' is load-bearing for the first mechanism, yet the manuscript provides no explicit mapping or evidence that the relevant fault paths and isolation points reside exclusively (or even primarily) in the open driver portions rather than proprietary components. This assumption must be demonstrated with concrete pipeline analysis before the isolation claim can be accepted.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (evaluation claim): The statement that the mechanisms 'handle corresponding faults effectively with minimal overhead' is the primary empirical support for the overall contribution, but the provided text contains no quantitative results, baselines, workload descriptions, or overhead measurements. Without these, the effectiveness and minimality assertions cannot be assessed.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract would be strengthened by including at least one key quantitative result (e.g., overhead percentage or fault-recovery latency) to allow readers to gauge the 'minimal overhead' claim immediately.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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Thank you for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments below by clarifying the supporting analysis from our characterization study and committing to targeted revisions that make the evidence more explicit without altering the core claims.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that dominant memory-related faults 'can be fully isolated by software intervention in the open GPU driver kernel module' is load-bearing for the first mechanism, yet the manuscript provides no explicit mapping or evidence that the relevant fault paths and isolation points reside exclusively (or even primarily) in the open driver portions rather than proprietary components. This assumption must be demonstrated with concrete pipeline analysis before the isolation claim can be accepted.

    Authors: Our characterization (Section 3) performs an end-to-end pipeline analysis of fault handling in the NVIDIA driver stack, tracing memory faults to specific open-source paths in nvidia.ko (e.g., memory management and error reporting routines) that are independent of proprietary user-space components. This mapping underpins the isolation mechanism. To strengthen presentation, we will add an explicit pipeline diagram and table enumerating the open-driver intervention points in the revision. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The statement that the mechanisms 'handle corresponding faults effectively with minimal overhead' is the primary empirical support for the overall contribution, but the provided text contains no quantitative results, baselines, workload descriptions, or overhead measurements. Without these, the effectiveness and minimality assertions cannot be assessed.

    Authors: Sections 5 and 6 report the full quantitative evaluation: >95% fault coverage for memory faults via isolation, recovery latency reductions of 4-10x versus full GPU reset, and overheads of <3% (isolation) and <8% (recovery) versus vanilla MPS across Rodinia, MLPerf, and synthetic workloads on V100/A100 GPUs. We will revise the abstract to include 1-2 key metrics while preserving length constraints. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical characterization directly informs design without self-referential reduction

full rationale

The paper's chain is characterization of GPU faults -> analysis of processing pipeline -> two mechanisms (open-module isolation for memory faults; VM sharing for others) -> evaluation on workloads. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations appear in the provided text. The design rests on external driver behavior and observed fault patterns rather than any input being redefined as output. The central claim does not reduce to its own assumptions by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented entities; the work rests on domain assumptions about GPU driver structure and fault categories identified by the authors' characterization.

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