Console message: "rte_kni: not enough space for copying the metadata headroom_size:192 metadata_size" on NSX-T Edge

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Console messages like below are observed for the NSX-T edge node:

rte_kni: not enough space for copying the metadata headroom_size:192 metadata_size

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

VMware NSX

Cause

It's a sanity check message while the kernel is preparing to send the packet on KNI.

Resolution

This is a sanity check message and does not indicate any operational impacts.