KVM SR-IOV devices with high latency and messages like "Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#0, should never happen"

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Issue

  • Virtual Machine dmesg shows many errors such as below:
Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#0, should never happen.
  • Virtual Machine takes a very long time to initialise SR-IOV devices on reboot, or hangs.
  • SR-IOV Network Interfaces have high latency after a Guest reboot

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 KVM Host
  • nVidia GPU Passthrough to KVM Guest
  • SR-IOV NIC passthrough to KVM Guest (eg: Intel, Mellanox, Broadcom, etc)

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