Use pinned memory for doing transfers

[coreylowman]

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[emchristiansen]

Hey, just to be clear, you mean something like RustaCUDA's LockedBuffer, right?

FYI I need this to switch from RustaCUDA to cudarc.

[coreylowman]

Yep, this will be utilizing cuMemAllocHost and cuMemFreeHost underneath the hood, which is also what the LockedBuffer is using.

As far as how this would be integrated into result/safe APIs, we could either:

1. Have a separate htod copy method for pinned transfers (htod_pinned_copy)
2. Change the existing htod_copy methods to accept something like AsRef<[T]> and make sure we can implement that trait for the page locked memory.

[tie-pilot-qxw]

Do you know if this feature has been supported? And how should I pin a certain array? I'm binding my Rust code with my Cuda code, so I really need the support to pin memory in safe Rust code.

[JordanLloydHall]

@coreylowman I love your work on this project, thank you for making Rust <-> CUDA interop possible. Do we have any status or roadmap on this feature? If some guidance were available I would be much more than happy to work on it.