Looking through the output of 'xl dmesg' on a
Skylake system (i5-6600K), I found a number of error messages
that I do not encounter on a Haswell-based system. I have tried
two motherboards from different manufacturers, with pretty much
the same results. Below are some of the unexpected messages:
Not enabling x2APIC (upon firmware request)
...
mwait-idle: does not run on family 6 model 94
...
[VT-D] iommu.c:875: iommu_fault_status: Primary Pending
Fault
[VT-D] INTR-REMAP: Request device [0000:f0:1f.0] fault
index 0, iommu reg = ffff82c000201000
(on motherboard 1) [VT-D] INTR-REMAP: reason 22 - Present
field in the IRTE entry is clear
(on motherboard 2) [VT-D] INTR-REMAP: reason 25 - Blocked a
compatibility format interrupt request
This leads to a few questions:
1) Is there some reason x2APIC should not be enabled on
Skylake? What consequence, if any, is there not having x2APIC
enabled?