Re: PROBLEM: Intel I210AT NIC resets while using PCI passthrough on ESXi (regression)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 09:03:08 EST


On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Foster Snowhill wrote:
> On 26.07.16 14:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Can you please try whether the replacement patch below fixes your issue as
> > well?

> This one doesn't fix the issue, getting resets again. Patch applied to HEAD
> (commit e65805251f2db69c9f67ed8062ab82526be5a374).
>
> [ 4.413127] igb 0000:13:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 1 rx queue(s), 1 tx queue(s)

Gah! That's MSI-X not MSI. So yes, the patch can't work then. Though it
confirms that it is an actual VMWARE emulation bug ...

Thanks,

tglx