Updated to 6.9.1 now I have an unstable W10 VM


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Hello, 

 

So I updated to 6.9 a few days ago and this brought huge stability issues on W10VM. After doing some reading I saw that people fixed the issue by adjusting a setting in the tips and tweaks section (setting the cpu to performance and enabling turbo) luckily I had done this prior so that wasn't the issue. Then I saw that removing the appended vfio devices in the boot config and adding the devices via the tools section should help, I did this and like that we can more easily do this now but still that didn't fix it at all. So now I'm stuck, the main issue I'm having is cpu interrupts that make the system stutter a lot. I'm not really sure what to do now. I did update the windows drivers thinking it might help, but of course it didn't. I also updated to 6.9.1 to see if that would work.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have attached my diagnostics for viewing along with a copy of my vm-xml.

 

Also a copy of the logs straight from the dash below.


Mar 10 17:18:37 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:17:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x19@0x900
Mar 10 17:18:37 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x1e@0x180
Mar 10 17:18:39 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:05:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x19@0x200
Mar 10 17:18:40 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:06:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x19@0x200
Mar 10 17:18:40 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:07:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x19@0x168
Mar 10 17:18:40 Icarus kernel: vfio-pci 0000:07:00.0: vfio_ecap_init: hiding ecap 0x1e@0x190
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: CPU: 18 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/18 Tainted: G I 5.10.21-Unraid #1
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X299 AORUS Gaming 7/X299 AORUS Gaming 7, BIOS F9k 11/06/2018
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: <IRQ>
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: dump_stack+0x6b/0x83
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: __report_bad_irq+0x30/0xa5
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: note_interrupt+0x1d8/0x229
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: handle_irq_event_percpu+0x4f/0x6f
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: handle_irq_event+0x34/0x51
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: handle_fasteoi_irq+0x7f/0xe6
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: </IRQ>
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: common_interrupt+0xa5/0x12e
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: RIP: 0010:arch_local_irq_enable+0x7/0x8
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: Code: 00 48 83 c4 28 4c 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 c3 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 c3 fb 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 <c3> 55 8b af 28 04 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 45 31 c9 53 45 31 d2 39 c5
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffc9000018fea0 EFLAGS: 00000246
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: RAX: ffff8888800a2380 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 000000000000001f
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000026a5b909 RDI: 0000000000000000
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: RBP: ffffe8ffff0b1f00 R08: 0000021450403a16 R09: 0000021452e4875c
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: R10: 000000007fffffff R11: 071c71c71c71c71c R12: 0000021450403a16
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: R13: ffffffff820c7ec0 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: cpuidle_enter_state+0x101/0x1c4
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: cpuidle_enter+0x25/0x31
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: do_idle+0x1a6/0x214
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: cpu_startup_entry+0x18/0x1a
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: handlers:
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: [<00000000d2f368e4>] i801_isr [i2c_i801]
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: [<00000000ffa29e32>] vfio_intx_handler
Mar 10 17:18:43 Icarus kernel: Disabling IRQ #16

icarus-diagnostics-20210310-1732.zip windows10-VMConfBackup.txt

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Thanks for the recommendation.

I gave it a try, but it seems like cpu interrupt is still showing up and a lot of stuttering is seen.

 

I might try reloading my windows 10 os, but that may have to wait till next week.

This seems unlikely since the VM was working really well before the update and it seems to work fine if i boot to the NVMe drive.

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Small update, I found a good stackoverflow thread that addresses the "kernel: irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)" error that I'm seeing in the logs.
When I have chance I will try to implement their solutions, but I'm curious if anyone else has seen this error before?

 

If anyone is interested here is the forum I found.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13861282/understanding-kernel-message-nobody-cared-try-booting-with-the-irqpoll-optio

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On 3/19/2021 at 11:32 PM, nightrider9870 said:

Update. I had to revert back to 6.8.3.

For whatever reason I am unable to get 6.9.1 to handle a windows 10 VM without massive stuttering.

 

If anyone has helpful advice, please let me know.

Thanks in advanced.

I had a similar issue. This is what I did to solve the problem. You probably can skip right to the msi_util step, but I outlined everything I did, just in case...

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On 3/21/2021 at 11:13 AM, DoeBoye said:

I had a similar issue. This is what I did to solve the problem. You probably can skip right to the msi_util step, but I outlined everything I did, just in case...

I completely appreciate the reply. My life got busy and I didn't have time to try this fix for a while. I just tried it today, and unfortunately no dice. I can't seem to figure out what's going on but as of right now update 6.9 and up is not useable for me. It's very odd since in version 6.8.3 I had no problems and my primary vm ran super responsively and now something in the update is causing issues.

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