The system logs a warning "Please reboot with intremap=off" in the system log

Issue

• The following warning is logged in the dmesg output or in the system log:

[Hardware Error]: This system BIOS has enabled interrupt remapping
on a chipset that contains an errata making that
feature unstable.  Please reboot with intremap=off
added to the kernel command line and contact
your BIOS vendor for an update

• Interrupt remapping enabled causes various problems on systems with the Intel 5500 and 5520 chipsets (revision 0x13) and the Intel X58 chipset (revisions 0x12, 0x13, 0x22).

• The symptoms can range from network link state flapping and partial to the complete loss of the network connectivity with the probable following messages in the system log:

kernel: do_IRQ: X.Y No irq handler for vector (irq -1)