L1 Linux Live: Working on Z390 IOMMU, Threadripper 1.1.0.2 Agesa, PCIe3 Speedups for VMs, and more

IOMMU user on Z370/Z390? I want to hear from you:

Geoff's Patreon:

[LevelLinux]

1:32 audio is fixed after a minute or so, will trim that just as soon as youtube lets 3:42 it starts

[aakoss]

Timestamps from the vid sections I watched:

9:18 Jeff off Lookingglass on increasing VFIO VGA performance with 3xPCIE
15:10 Orange crush has no caffeine? Scandalous!
15:30 Upcoming sneak peeks into GNU/Linux part 3 & 4 series
16:18 AMD IO CHIPLET
16:50 Play area for Windows on Linux
17:49 RHEL8, IBM & Fedora (pls no die fedora)
18:58 RISC-V open & free computingl
20:24 X370 vs B350
21:42 MSI BIOS updates use at own risk!
22:08 ECC support for Raven Ridge
....

[hypolyxa]

Just running Linux is just fine. I am so glad I ditched Windows earlier this year completely. Honestly, I cannot be bothered just for some stupid games. Yesterday, I installed Killing Floor 2 with the latest Proton beta and it works just about flawless, completely playable. It is amazing to witness.

[kortaffel]

Ryan would just take a sip out of a bottle after that intro...

[bryantallen]

I'm a open-box junky myself. I have collected quite a bit, from a GOLD mine of open-box hardware at the local Micro Center. Motherboards, GPU's and even CPU's are always coming in. Sometimes its just a damaged box, but that doesn't bother me.
I recently, well a few months ago found a $400 5.2GHz 9900K with a $215 z390 Designare to go with it. Just a year and a half ago i purchased a z370 Aorus Gaming 7 for $145. (A Steal) and a 5.3GHz $280 open-box 8700K to go with it. On top of that, got $30 off for buying a motherboard and CPU. RAM and GPU's are also plentiful. Just picked up 2 16GB kits of GSKills FLARE X 3200CL14 (Sammy B-die) for $87 a kit. (That's armed robbery) and it overclocks to 4000MHz CL17 on both the Gaming and Editing/Streaming rig. The best deal of all is the RTX Aorus Extreme 2080 for $560. I was very surprised to see such a high-end 2080 for that price. Can't help but to be kind of happy with the 2 systems that i built for the price of one. On top of all that i ordered 2 1GB nVME 970pros for a 7GB/s raid 0 setup on the z390 Designare.
The company on ebay sent me 6 of them. I tried to reach the company by e-mailing them and everything. No reply. So i filled up both PC's with nice fast storage. There's a new bundle of stuff down there at this moment. Just waiting to get paid so i can go broke buying more hardware. I just can't let deals like these get away from me because eventually the deals will vanish. (along with all my money).

[nerdsofthehawk]

I now knowwhat a roomful of Wendells sounds like!

[MortalisPT]

The development for gaming on linux is so good right now i don't even need windows in my personal life anymore xD

[trubadyr]

Thank you for this. A thumb up, as usual!

[nazar-pc]

I'm actually talking to MSI about Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon about splitting CPU lanes into IOMMU groups. Currently running ACS-enabled kernel pretty successfully. Thinking about X299...

[AntiTector]

Hopefully we will fix Virtualization as the addition to DXVK/Proton. With this, there are so many possibilities.

[CobainSnake]

Does IOMMU affect performance for container applications such as Docker/LXC?

[markchang]

I want to mention here that at kernel 4.18.X, it seems that a workaround have been patched into the mainline kernel such that a timeout added so that the encryptions will not hang the system

[QuadNy]

I have a possible dumb question:

Why not extract the ACPI tables, Decompile, Fix (decompilers I've worked with don't usually work that well), Edit the offending one (IVRS?), Recompile and Insert the edited tables back into the ROM (using UEFITool or something else)?

[MBoosted]

Maybe I should just go to the level1 forums, but I might as well ask here too. I am interested in transitioning my home server/secondary workstation over to ubuntu 18.04 LTS from Win7. But I also want to upgrade the storage at the same time and am looking for reasonably priced hardware raid cards that will work with little issue. It will be running a FX 8320e (before anyone says it's crap, I know it's old but it does everything and more and I paid next to nothing for the whole system) and a gtx 950 for hardware acceleration. All of the research I've done doesn't give specific model numbers or examples of cards that are well vetted. Not really wanting to spend more than $100 brand new.

[arthurdoktor]

What happened to part 3 and 4 of gaming on Linux?

[lucasfrohlich]

@Leve1Linux u can tell any motherboard micro-itx with can support IOMMU? (Ryzen)

[nazar-pc]

Interesting to hear that you probably wouldn't recommend running bcache while I run BTRFS on top of bcache :)
ZFS seems to be way too complex. I wish it had the same ergonomics as BTRFS or better yet BTRFS be significantly faster. Kernel headers package extraction takes so much more time on NVMe-based BTRFS than SATA-based ext4, it is unbelievable...

[chaython]

need a video on what's the best linux distro
A definitive review of the many of the major desktop distros

[Blakhawk]

I laughed so hard at the first few minutes of this video. Plz don't edit it out!

[DanielDiaz-byfc]

Is there a big difference in performance or compatibility between gen 1 and gen 2 Threadripper with Linux? I'm trying to decide between 1950 and 2950x.