Hi,

Our team has verified Ubuntu 18.04 + "proposed" solve the problem and as
far as I am concerned, we could mark the tag as "verification-done-
bionic":

</VMware

Hi Zheng,

Similar to update #44, I have verified that the bug has been fixed in
Ubuntu 18.04 + "proposed" with the following steps :

- Configure only with e1000e driver and reboot 3 times
- Configure with both e1000e driver and vmxnet3 driver and reboot 3 times
- Configure only with vmxnet3 driver and reboot 3 times
- Reconfigure the driver from vmxnet3 to e1000e and reboot 3 times

After each reboot, check output of "ifconfig" and everything goes well.

VMware\>

Thanks,

-zheng

** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done-bionic

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Title:
  e1000e msix interrupts broken in linux-image-4.15.0-15-generic

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  == SRU Justification ==
  Linux kernel 4.15 has introduced a bug in e1000e msix interrupt drivers,
  which violates the e1000e specification. Specifically, the driver
  configures auto-clearing of the "OTHER" interrupt types, and the "OTHER" 
interrupt
   handler expects to see an uncleared interrupt source for the "OTHER" types;
   consequently, the link state change interrupts are not identified by the 
driver,
   and thus the virtual E1000e device doesn't function correctly inside VMware 
VMs.

  This patch Fixes: 4aea7a5c5e94 ("e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun
  interrupt bursts")

  == Fix ==
  745d0bd3af99 ("e1000e: Remove Other from EIAC")

  == Regression Potential ==
  Low.  Fixes an existing regression and limited to e1000e driver.

  == Test Case ==
  A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug 
reporter.
  The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.


  
  == Original Bug Description ==
  Hi Ubuntu folks,

  Linux kernel 4.15 has introduced a bug in e1000e msix interrupt
  drivers, which violates the e1000e specification. Specifically, the
  driver configures auto-clearing of the "OTHER" interrupt types, and
  the "OTHER" interrupt handler expects to see an uncleared interrupt
  source for the "OTHER" types; consequently, the link state change
  interrupts are not identified by the driver, and thus the virtual
  E1000e device doesn't function correctly inside VMware VMs.

  I have verified that Linux kernel 4.16.2 has fixed the issues and our
  on-perm QE has verified 4.16-RC functions correctly inside VMware VMs.

  Could you please crossport the fix from linux-4.16 into Ubuntu 18.04
  that would be frozen in 2 days? Here are the change history:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/25/248

  Benjamin Poirier (7):
  e1000e: Remove Other from EIAC
  Partial revert "e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts"
  e1000e: Fix queue interrupt re-raising in Other interrupt
  e1000e: Avoid missed interrupts following ICR read
  e1000e: Fix check_for_link return value with autoneg off
  Revert "e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up"
  e1000e: Fix link check race condition

  Thanks,

  -zheng

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