sonic-buildimage/device/mellanox/x86_64-mlnx_msn2010-r0
Volodymyr Samotiy f1d6655004
[Mellanox] Disable SSD NCQ on Mellanox platforms (#17567)
- Why I did it
Based on some research some products might experience an occasional IO failures in the communication between CPU and SSD because of NCQ.
There seems to be a problem between some kernel versions and some SATA controllers.

Syslog error message examples:

Error "ata1: SError: { UnrecovData Handshk }" - "failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED".
Error "ata1: SError: { RecovComm HostInt PHYRdyChg CommWake 10B8B DevExch }" - "failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED".
Some vendors already disabled NCQ on their platforms in SONiC due to similar issue:

[Arista] Disable ATA NCQ for a few products #13739 [Arista] Disable ATA NCQ for a few products
[Arista] Disable SSD NCQ on DCS-7050CX3-32S #13964 [Arista] Disable SSD NCQ on DCS-7050CX3-32S
Also there are other discussions on Debian/Ubuntu forums about similar issues and it was suggested to disable NCQ:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/133946/are-these-sata-errors-dangerous

- How I did it
Add a kernel parameter to tell libata to disable NCQ

- How to verify it
Use FIO tool - fio --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=64k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4
2024-01-28 16:26:07 +02:00
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ACS-MSN2010 [ppi]: Enable global port late create for all Mellanox HWSKUs. (#16945) 2023-11-01 21:50:14 -07:00
plugins [Mellanox] Add NVIDIA Copyright header to "mellanox" files (#8799) 2021-10-17 19:03:02 +03:00
default_sku [updategraph] add support to use preset config instead of default minigraph (#2050) 2018-09-21 22:01:10 -07:00
installer.conf [Mellanox] Disable SSD NCQ on Mellanox platforms (#17567) 2024-01-28 16:26:07 +02:00
pcie.yaml [Mellanox] Add NVIDIA Copyright header to "mellanox" files (#8799) 2021-10-17 19:03:02 +03:00
platform_asic Add platform_asic file to each platform folder in sonic-device-data based package (#8542) 2021-10-08 19:27:48 -07:00
platform_components.json [Mellanox] Update platform components config files. (#5685) 2020-10-25 19:44:37 +02:00
platform_reboot Fixed FW upgrade sequence. (#2111) 2018-10-05 10:33:40 -07:00
platform_wait [mellanox]: Upgraded hw-management V.2.0.0160. (#2643) 2019-03-06 18:51:46 -08:00
platform.json [Mellanox] Advance hw-mgmt to v.7.0020.4104 (#13372) 2023-02-12 11:23:47 +02:00
pmon_daemon_control.json [Pmon] dynamically load pmon daemons (#2654) 2019-03-22 02:49:35 -07:00
sensors.conf [Mellanox] Add sensors labels for human readable output for MSN2010 (#5658) 2020-10-19 09:49:19 -07:00
system_health_monitoring_config.json [system-health] Add support for monitoring system health (#4835) 2020-10-12 11:12:49 +03:00
thermal_policy.json Add thermal control support for SONiC (#3949) 2020-03-09 10:41:10 -07:00