Hey guys,

 

everone who`s trying to passthrough a Vega 10 card to a VM will know this issue. Restarting a VM isn't possible without resetting the whole server. The card will stuck in a D3 power state until Unraid is rebootet. The early adopters of TR4 and AM4 might already know this guy from fixing some bugs which made it into the kernel and a lot of people using Unraid benefit from his work. He did it again and fixed the reset bug together with AMD for the mentioned cards.

 

This might be a useful information for a couple users and might also be something @limetech is interested in to implement into the next releases.

 

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vega-10-and-12-reset-application/145666

 

Here is a short video from him showing that it is working right now with a MacOS Mojave VM.

 

 

Edited August 1, 20196 yr by bastl

We can add this patch to upcoming Unraid 6.8, however note this caveat:

 

From: https://gist.github.com/numinit/1bbabff521e0451e5470d740e0eb82fd#gistcomment-2973568

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To include this is to promote bad behaviour on AMD's part. Not only that, this is not a fix, if your guest VM crashes or fails to shutdown, or the guest AMDGPU driver crashes (which happens often) or your physical bios posts the AMD GPU before you can post it inside your VM, this patch does nothing.

 

2 hours ago, limetech said:

We can add this patch to upcoming Unraid 6.8, however note this caveat

As long as you don't break something else with this patch I think the users will benefit from it. Having a VM in a state where you always have to restart the server to use your GPU again vs. a VM where "maybe" a driver crash can lead to the same issue?! Even if it's not the final solution and only a small improvement, it's still an improvement. As an early adopter of the TR4 platform I know this feeling, every slight improvement in stability is better than none. I'am not actual sure how many people in the Unraid community are still using the vega cards but every now and then people reporting this issue in the forums. I guess there is a demand for this especially for people with MacOS VMS. Nvidia web drivers for Mojave for example are still not available and maybe never will be and AMD cards kinda the only up to date cards that work on newer MacOS VMs. I don't know if you guys have some insights on the numbers how many people using these cards on unraid but I guess there are a couple.

 

Btw. is there any timeline for the 6.7.3 release and more important for the 6.8? 😁

On 8/1/2019 at 8:49 PM, bastl said:

As an early adopter of the TR4 platform I know this feeling, every slight improvement in stability is better than none. I'am not actual sure how many people in the Unraid community are still using the vega cards

Running TR myself with Radeon VII (x2) it would be nice indeed that these bugs are fixed  RVII is passed trough nicely for both VM, but to restart VM I have to restart whole system since GPU goes to sleep (or something) when I shut the VM.

Want to let you know we are going to remove this patch in next Unraid OS release 6.8.0-rc5.  This is turning out to not be reliable.

On 10/31/2019 at 7:49 AM, limetech said:

Want to let you know we are going to remove this patch in next Unraid OS release 6.8.0-rc5.  This is turning out to not be reliable.

Little late here. Any idea will there be actual fix later?

5 minutes ago, contay said:

Any idea will there be actual fix later?

That question should be posed to AMD.

Any update on this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tnFzPaVBY seems to suggest that another patch for kernel has been released. Would be back to unRAID use if I could use my RX5700 properly with it

2 hours ago, methanoid said:

Any update on this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tnFzPaVBY seems to suggest that another patch for kernel has been released. Would be back to unRAID use if I could use my RX5700 properly with it

Find the patch and I'll consider adding it.

gnif@level1techs is hard at work. The community has supported him along to get some AMD hardware (for PCI passthrough),  a Radeon 5700 & now a Radeon VII.

Best thing anyone can do is to support him more to make things fast on the AMD VFIO/passthrough side of things

Edited December 18, 20196 yr by Shinobi