How to share CUcontext with other application?

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Hi

I am n00b in CUDA and have questions.

Is there a way to

  1. activate CUcontext from PyTorch? (perhaps just sending a dummy Tensor to CUDA would do?)
  2. proper way to retrieve the flag used to activate CUcontext by PyTorch?

Background:

Following Performance of TorchAudio's GPU Video Decoder, I am looking for a way to share CUcontext (CUDA primary device context? IIUC) between PyTorch and FFmpeg.

After messing with FFmpeg API, I found there is a flag to tell FFmpeg to use primary device context. FFmpeg: libavutil/hwcontext_cuda.c Source File

When I tried it, there were three mode of operations

  1. Success with CUcontext shared confirmed from reduced memory usage.
  2. Fail with message like there is no active primary device context.
  3. Fail with message like the flag I gave (default) is different from the active primary device context.

So I am thinking to do the following;

  1. If PyTorch has not activated the device primary context, activate it within PyTorch.
  2. Retrieve the context parameter and tell FFmpeg to use the same flag for creating CUcontext.

What is the way to do this with PyTorch C++ API?

Thanks,