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      orange.guru @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10

      This is the on-chip QAT that is present on the Xeon-D1541. Its kind-of-puzzling, there is not much on the web about this particular problem.

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        orange.guru @Impovich
        last edited by orange.guru

        @impovich said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

        Unable to find AER capability of the device

        I would possibly test by verifying that a few BIOS features are enabled on the system that is running the Xen Hypervisor. Then passthru the QAT device using SR-IOV so that VM can get more direct access to the QAT device thru virtual function,

        I find the error about AER interesting as there is a related BIOS feature that can be found on some systems to present this functionality. When it comes to AER, it may be because the QAT device is not passed thru with SR-IOV so its unable to read the AER Assertions.

        I hope my opinion helps, this is my best guess based on some other things I have worked on.

        VT-d - (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O)
        PCI-E AER - (PCI Advanced Error Reporting)
        SR-IOV - (Single Root I/O Virtualization)

        https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/intelr-quickassist-technology/330689qatvirtualizationappnoter006usreview.pdf

        This guide has some information on how this is done with KVM, I know its not Xen, but it might be worth a look and some consideration.

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          Dobby_ @orange.guru
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          @orange-guru said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

          This is the on-chip QAT that is present on the Xeon-D1541

          • Activate it in the BIOS
          • Open-VM-Tools packet installation
          • Set up in pfSense to take advantage of that QAT

          Erweiterte Einstellungen.jpg

          QAT1.jpg

          QAT2.jpg

          #~. @Dobby

          Turris Omnia - 4 Ports - 2 GB RAM / TurrisOS 7 Release (Btrfs)
          PC Engines APU4D4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense CE 2.7.2 Release (ZFS)
          PC Engines APU6B4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense+ (Plus) 24.03_1 Release (ZFS)

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            The Xeon D-1541 does not have any on chip QAT hardware.
            That's why the driver is unable to attach.

            Steve

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              orange.guru
              last edited by orange.guru

              @dobby_

              This is what I have in the GUI:

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              866b10ae-e9c6-4180-b876-b85cf8ad781f-image.png

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                orange.guru @stephenw10
                last edited by orange.guru

                @stephenw10 said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

                Xeon D-1541

                Oh Jeez, you are right, QAT didn't hit the Xeon-D until the next generation. I will see myself out, sorry for that.

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                  Impovich @orange.guru
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                  @orange-guru said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

                  VT-d - (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O)
                  PCI-E AER - (PCI Advanced Error Reporting)
                  SR-IOV - (Single Root I/O Virtualization)

                  Hi, thank you for your suggestion.

                  VT-d is enabled
                  SR-IOV is enabled
                  PCI-E-AER is missing from bios

                  besides that, I have Nvidia T400 that is passed to Ubuntu and works

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @orange.guru
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                    @orange-guru said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

                    I will see myself out,

                    😁

                    Easy mistake to make.

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                      Impovich @stephenw10
                      last edited by Impovich

                      updates from my investigation
                      Pfsense on bare metal - QAT IQA89601G1P5 works!
                      Pfsense virtualized with Proxmox - exactly the same story as with xcp-ng :(
                      Intel states that it is possible to passthrough some QAT adapters including mine to KVM
                      Document which describes how to do it

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Does it work in vanilla FreeBSD? Or in Linux even?

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                          Impovich @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10
                          Didn't try vanilla FreeBSD, only in PFsense 23.01-RELEASE
                          As for Linux, I installed drivers on a Proxmox host successfully and it looked like everything was fine

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Right but did you try passing though the QAT device to a Linux VM?

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                              Impovich @stephenw10
                              last edited by Impovich

                              @stephenw10 no, will try

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                                Impovich @stephenw10
                                last edited by Impovich

                                @stephenw10
                                So another attempt:
                                Fresh proxmox installation
                                installed qat drivers and enabled SR-IOV
                                restored pfsense from backup
                                followed howto mentioned earlier in the thread

                                and now I'm getting this, any thoughts?

                                [23.01-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.lan]/root: dmesg | grep qat
                                qat_ocf0: <QAT engine>
                                qat_ocf0: no QAT IRQ instances available
                                device_attach: qat_ocf0 attach returned 6
                                qat_ocf0: <QAT engine>
                                qat_ocf0: no QAT IRQ instances available
                                device_attach: qat_ocf0 attach returned 6
                                

                                vmstat -i | grep qat - returns nothing

                                23.01-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.lan]/root: kldstat -v | grep qat
                                 8    1 0xffffffff84751000     4348 qat.ko (/boot/kernel/qat.ko)
                                		691 nexus/qat
                                 9    5 0xffffffff84756000    10e10 qat_hw.ko (/boot/kernel/qat_hw.ko)
                                		690 pci/qat_c4xxx
                                		686 pci/qat_c62x
                                		689 pci/qat_dh895xcc
                                		687 pci/qat_200xx
                                		688 pci/qat_c3xxx
                                10    7 0xffffffff84767000    29840 qat_common.ko (/boot/kernel/qat_common.ko)
                                		684 qat_common
                                11    6 0xffffffff84791000    66b78 qat_api.ko (/boot/kernel/qat_api.ko)
                                		685 qat_api
                                12    1 0xffffffff847f8000    11240 qat_c2xxx.ko (/boot/kernel/qat_c2xxx.ko)
                                		692 pci/qat_c2xxx
                                
                                [23.01-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.lan]/root: /usr/bin/openssl engine -t -c
                                (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support
                                     [ unavailable ]
                                
                                none0@pci0:0:16:0:	class=0x0b4000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x37c9 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
                                    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
                                    device     = 'C62x Chipset QuickAssist Technology Virtual Function'
                                    class      = processor
                                

                                On Proxmox host everything looks fine and the device uses the correct driver

                                54:01.0 0b40: 8086:37c9 (rev 04)
                                        Subsystem: 8086:0000
                                        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
                                        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
                                        NUMA node: 0
                                        IOMMU group: 150
                                        Region 0: Memory at d0b90000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
                                        Region 2: Memory at d0b80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
                                        Capabilities: [50] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
                                                DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <128ns, L1 <1us
                                                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0.000W
                                                DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq-
                                                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- FLReset-
                                                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                                                DevSta: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
                                                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM not supported
                                                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
                                                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk-
                                                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                                                LnkSta: Speed unknown (downgraded), Width x0 (downgraded)
                                                        TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                                                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range B, TimeoutDis+ NROPrPrP- LTR-
                                                         10BitTagComp- 10BitTagReq- OBFF Not Supported, ExtFmt- EETLPPrefix-
                                                         EmergencyPowerReduction Not Supported, EmergencyPowerReductionInit-
                                                         FRS- TPHComp- ExtTPHComp-
                                                         AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS-
                                                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- LTR- OBFF Disabled,
                                                         AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn-
                                                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete- EqualizationPhase1-
                                                         EqualizationPhase2- EqualizationPhase3- LinkEqualizationRequest-
                                                         Retimer- 2Retimers- CrosslinkRes: unsupported
                                        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
                                                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
                                                Masking: 00000000  Pending: 00000000
                                        Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
                                                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                                                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                                                UESvrt: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                                                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr-
                                                CEMsk:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr-
                                                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap- ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap- ECRCChkEn-
                                                        MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap-
                                                HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
                                        Capabilities: [138 v1] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
                                                ARICap: MFVC- ACS-, Next Function: 0
                                                ARICtl: MFVC- ACS-, Function Group: 0
                                        Capabilities: [1b0 v1] Access Control Services
                                                ACSCap: SrcValid- TransBlk- ReqRedir- CmpltRedir- UpstreamFwd- EgressCtrl- DirectTrans-
                                                ACSCtl: SrcValid- TransBlk- ReqRedir- CmpltRedir- UpstreamFwd- EgressCtrl- DirectTrans-
                                        Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
                                        Kernel modules: qat_c62xvf
                                
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                                  Impovich @Impovich
                                  last edited by Impovich

                                  Maybe this is because drivers in pfsense are not configured with --enable-icp-sriov=guest

                                  From intel manual

                                  2. Install the Intel® QAT Software package on the Guest.
                                  3. Enable the SR-IOV build on the host by using:
                                  # ./configure --enable-icp-sriov=guest
                                  4. Install the QAT software:
                                  # make install
                                  
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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Impovich
                                    last edited by

                                    @impovich said in IQA89601G1P5 QAT not working:

                                    qat_ocf0: <QAT engine>
                                    qat_ocf0: no QAT IRQ instances available
                                    device_attach: qat_ocf0 attach returned 6

                                    That is expected if there is simply no device present. or none with a driver attached.
                                    And that appears to be the case here:

                                    none0@pci0:0:16:0:	class=0x0b4000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x37c9 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
                                        vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
                                        device     = 'C62x Chipset QuickAssist Technology Virtual Function'
                                        class      = processor
                                    

                                    It looks like the FreeBSD driver simply doesn't support the virtual devices yet:
                                    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14173

                                    Though looking at the code it does appear to be listed.
                                    https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sys/dev/qat/include/common/adf_accel_devices.h#L12
                                    That is in the 23.01 code so you might expect it to at least try to attach.

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