Linux 4.9.8 + NVMe CiB Issue

[Keith Busch]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 03:25:01PM -0500, Marc Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We opened a support case with Intel (# 02641251) but we aren't making
> much progress... they looked at log files from /var/log/ on our system
> and now seem to be blaming warning/error log lines from
> Corosync/Pacemaker on the issue. =)
> 
> We're still able to reproduce this issue with high load... the NVMe
> drives "drop out", randomly, not always the same drive, when pushing
> I/O across all of our NVMe drives.
> 
> We don't mind to keep pushing on the Intel NVMe hardware support
> front, but looking for confirmation that its believed based on the
> kernel log messages posted, that this is an issue with the NVMe drives
> themselves (eg, firmware)?

This genuinely looks like the drives have stopped responding and needs
to be directed to the drive vendor.