Appendix – Host OS Configuration

NVIDIA BlueField-2 SNAP for NVMe and Virtio-blk v3.8.0

With Linux environment on host OS, additional kernel boot parameters may be required to support SNAP related features:

  • To use SR-IOV, intel_iommu=on iommu=ptmust be added

  • To use PCIe hotplug, pci=realloc must be added

  • When using SR-IOV, pci=assign-busses must be added

To view boot parameter values, use the command cat /proc/cmdline.

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