[action] [PR:17567] [Mellanox] Disable SSD NCQ on Mellanox platforms #17960
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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:
Some vendors already disabled NCQ on their platforms in SONiC due to similar issue:
Also there are other discussions on Debian/Ubuntu forums about similar issues and it was suggested to disable NCQ:
Work item tracking
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
Test results with NCQ enabled:
Test results with NCQ disabled:
Which release branch to backport (provide reason below if selected)
Tested branch (Please provide the tested image version)
Description for the changelog
Link to config_db schema for YANG module changes
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