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Samuel Angebault 5ce1b8e4b7
[Arista] Disable ATA NCQ for a few products (#13739)
Why I did it
Some products might experience an occasional IO failure in the communication between CPU and SSD.
Based on some research it could be attributable to some device not handling ATA NCQ (Native Command Queue).

This issue currently affect 4 products:

DCS-7170-32C*
DCS-7170-64C
DCS-7060DX4-32
DCS-7260CX3-64

How I did it
This change disable NCQ on the affected drive for a small set of products.

How to verify it
When the fix is applied, these 2 patterns can be found in the dmesg.
ata1.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq)
NCQ (not used)

Test results using: fio --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=64k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4

with NCQ (ata1.00: 61865984 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA)

   READ: bw=33.9MiB/s (35.6MB/s), 33.9MiB/s-33.9MiB/s (35.6MB/s-35.6MB/s), io=4073MiB (4270MB), run=120078-120078msec
  WRITE: bw=34.1MiB/s (35.8MB/s), 34.1MiB/s-34.1MiB/s (35.8MB/s-35.8MB/s), io=4100MiB (4300MB), run=120078-120078msec
without NCQ (ata1.00: 61865984 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (not used))

   READ: bw=31.7MiB/s (33.3MB/s), 31.7MiB/s-31.7MiB/s (33.3MB/s-33.3MB/s), io=3808MiB (3993MB), run=120083-120083msec
  WRITE: bw=31.9MiB/s (33.4MB/s), 31.9MiB/s-31.9MiB/s (33.4MB/s-33.4MB/s), io=3830MiB (4016MB), run=120083-120083msec
Which release branch to backport (provide reason below if selected)
2023-02-15 10:31:59 -08:00
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Aboot [Arista] Disable ATA NCQ for a few products (#13739) 2023-02-15 10:31:59 -08:00
apt [Build] set apt Acquire::Retries to 3 for bullseye (#12758) 2022-11-21 08:05:16 +08:00
build_scripts During build time mask only those feature/services that are disabled excplicitly (#13283) 2023-01-07 02:36:37 +00:00
build_templates set cable length to 1m for backplane ports (#13572) 2023-02-10 19:01:49 -08:00
dhcp ZTP infrastructure changes to support DHCP discovery provisioning data (#3298) 2019-12-10 08:16:56 -08:00
docker [dockerd] Force usage of cgo DNS resolver (#13649) 2023-02-14 08:57:19 +02:00
image_config Fix rsyslogd start failed cause by rsyslog.conf is emtpy. (#13669) 2023-02-06 16:38:04 +02:00
initramfs-tools [Arista] Add initial support for 720DT-48S (#10656) 2022-06-29 09:56:24 -07:00
scripts change default to be on (#13495) 2023-01-24 23:59:54 +00:00
sshd Remove SSH host keys after installing the custom version of sshd (#10633) 2022-04-25 10:38:52 -07:00