Peer access not supported between a device and itself

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hello,

I have found that cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer() with report that devices cannot peer with themselves. This can be tested with a trivial program such as:

#include <cuda_runtime_api.h>

int main() {
	int can = 0;
	cudaError_t ret = cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer(&can, 0, 0);
	if (ret != cudaSuccess) return 127;
	return 1-can;
}

which will exit with error status 1.

I am aware that this is a very peculiar corner-case, but I would expect devices to be able to peer with themselves.

(The way I found this is by testing our multi-GPU code using the same device twice; our code creates one thread per device, and tries to enable peer access between the devices specified for each thread, but it fails in this case, even though I would expect it to work since the device is physically the same.)

I wonder: is this this an oversight (“nobody would ever do that”) or are there actual limitations that prevent it?