Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

GPU Memory Fabric Recycle Level

Use the fabric recycle level to control how the system handles the memory fabric when an instance is terminated.

The fabricRecycleLevel parameter is part of memoryFabricPreferences in UpdateComputeGpuMemoryFabric, and allows these values:
  • SKIP_RECYCLE: OCI "Quick recycles" the Compute host and skips reprovisioning the fabric before returning the host for reuse.

    Use Quick Recycle to skip the standard OCI host provisioning process to minimize the time a host is unavailable for use after an instance is terminated. However, note that the host provisioning process ensures hosts are cleaned, healthy, compliant, and secure, so hosts being shared or in production environments should always go through a Full Recycle.

    Note

    You can't change customerDesiredFirmwareBundleId when setting fabricRecycleLevel to SKIP_RECYCLE.
  • FULL_RECYCLE: When a Compute host is recycled, OCI does a bare metal wipe and reprovisions the fabric.
  • OPPORTUNISTIC_FULL_RECYCLE: Updates firmware through a FULL_RECYCLE if the target firmware bundle is different from the current firmware bundle. Otherwise, a SKIP_RECYCLE is performed.
  • null: equals FULL_RECYCLE.