Hey there,
My Server is using Proxmox as Hypervisor (KVM backend) to spawn VMs.
I wanna use the HAB (specs) to pass through my 4HDDs to a TrueNAS Core VM.
In order to do that, I first enabled the IOMMU support in the BIOS/UEFI. After that, I booted into Proxmox and checked whether IOMMU is detected. It spitted out the following output
[ 1.332679] pci 0000:00:00.2: AMD-Vi: IOMMU performance counters supported
[ 1.344441] pci 0000:00:00.2: AMD-Vi: Found IOMMU cap 0x40
[ 1.345378] perf/amd_iommu: Detected AMD IOMMU #0 (2 banks, 4 counters/bank).
which in my mind means that IOMMU is already enabled, even if I never configured it in the GRUB cmdline.
I also checked the IOMMU groups, to validate the HBA is in its own separate group.
[...]
IOMMU Group 25 2d:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [1000:0087] (rev 05)
[...]
And in fact, it is in its own dedicated IOMMU group.
Did someone encounter this before, or is my understanding of IOMMU at some point wrong ?
Server Specs:
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AsRockRack X570D4U Mainboard
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600
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x2 16GB Crucial Micron ECC RAM
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x2 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB
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x2 WD RED 4TB
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LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 HBA