PIO Not Supported in KVM/ESXi

Onload User Guide (UG1586)

Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2023-07-31
Revision
1.2 English

Due to limitations with write-combine mapping in a virtual guest environment, PIO is not currently supported for Onload applications running in a virtual machine in KVM or ESXi.

Users should ensure that EF_PIO is set to 0 for all Onload stacks running in VMs.