Hi.
I'm having problems on multiple Red Hat VM's (on esxi) whereby the network interface IRQ is disabled by the OS. This is the error from dmesg:
command: Write(10): 2a 00 03 42 3f e0 00 00 08 00
mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81018b45c680)
irq 67: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff800bc899>] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d
[<ffffffff800bcacc>] note_interrupt+0x1e6/0x227
[<ffffffff800bbfc8>] __do_IRQ+0xbd/0x103
[<ffffffff8006da2b>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5
[<ffffffff8005e615>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
[<ffffffff800123d1>] __do_softirq+0x51/0x133
[<ffffffff8005f2fc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
[<ffffffff8006dba8>] do_softirq+0x2c/0x85
[<ffffffff8005ec8e>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c
<EOI> [<ffffffff882b5d48>] :e1000:e1000_watchdog_task+0x574/0x5d8
[<ffffffff882b57d4>] :e1000:e1000_watchdog_task+0x0/0x5d8
[<ffffffff8004dc37>] run_workqueue+0x94/0xe4
[<ffffffff8004a472>] worker_thread+0x0/0x122
[<ffffffff8004a562>] worker_thread+0xf0/0x122
[<ffffffff8008e16d>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
[<ffffffff80032bdc>] kthread+0xfe/0x132
[<ffffffff8005efb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[<ffffffff80032ade>] kthread+0x0/0x132
[<ffffffff8005efa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11
handlers:
[<ffffffff882b3d7b>] (e1000_intr+0x0/0x12c [e1000])
Disabling IRQ #67
and the interrupts file shows IRQ 67 as eth0.:
]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 4096645066 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1921 34 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 5 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 1914 99 IO-APIC-edge i8042
15: 113323952 1586635 IO-APIC-edge ide1
51: 78742357 2596624 IO-APIC-level ioc0
59: 0 0 IO-APIC-level vmci
67: 24247712 31753991 IO-APIC-level eth0
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 4198621982 4198586609
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this? We experienced a network outage today, and once it came back, we noticed that the NICS on around 5-6 RH VM's had been disabled with exactly the same errors given above. Red Hat v5.5, ESXi v 4.
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be much appreciated.