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Bug #7723
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disable MSI-X in nvme on VMware
Start date:
2017-01-03
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Bite-size
Tags:
needs-triage
Gerrit CR:
External Bug:
Description
At attach time the nvme driver sets up an initial interrupt, and a little later it disables it and sets up several MSI-X interrupts for all the queues. If the initial interrupt is also MSI-X this will confuse VMware ESXi enough to shut off the VM. This apparently happens only with NVMe devices in passthrough mode.
The problem is actually very likely a VMware bug: it notices that we set up the first MSI-X interrupt, but it doesn't understand that we're disabling it again. We can't fix VMware, but we can disable the use of MSI-X in nvme on VMware.
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Updated by Electric Monk over 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 9d08e1f8c231016dcfeb854acff457e0e54f179d
commit 9d08e1f8c231016dcfeb854acff457e0e54f179d
Author: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@nexenta.com>
Date: 2017-01-10T09:48:14.000Z
7723 disable MSI-X in nvme on VMware
Reviewed by: Rick McNeal <rick.mcneal@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Updated by Dan McDonald over 5 years ago
- Related to Bug #9566: Disabled MSI-X for NVMe passthrough on ESXi must be reverted because VMware fixed the bug on their end added
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