sonic-buildimage/device/mellanox/x86_64-nvidia_sn2201-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-SN2201 [ppi]: Enable global port late create for all Mellanox HWSKUs. (#16945) 2023-11-01 21:50:14 -07:00
plugins [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
default_sku [Mellanox] Update Mellanox SN2201 device specific files (#10275) 2022-03-18 12:11:13 -07:00
installer.conf [Mellanox] Disable SSD NCQ on Mellanox platforms (#17567) 2024-01-28 16:26:07 +02:00
pcie.yaml [Mellanox] Update NVIDIA License header for files changed since 1.1.2022 (#10289) 2022-03-23 13:19:25 +02:00
platform_asic [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
platform_components.json [Mellanox] Enhance Platform API to support SN2201 - RJ45 ports and new components mgmt. (#10377) 2022-06-20 19:12:20 -07:00
platform_reboot [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
platform_wait [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
platform.json [Mellanox] Advance hw-mgmt to v.7.0020.4104 (#13372) 2023-02-12 11:23:47 +02:00
pmon_daemon_control.json [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
sensors.conf [Mellanox] Update Mellanox SN2201 device specific files (#10275) 2022-03-18 12:11:13 -07:00
system_health_monitoring_config.json [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00
thermal_policy.json [Mellanox] Add support for SN2201 platform (#9333) 2021-12-06 14:47:50 +02:00