Azure Accelerated Networking fails

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Environment

All versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)

Situation

Azure Accelerated Networking fails with the errors similar to below:

[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] mlx4_en: eth1: Steering Mode 2
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] mlx4_en: eth1: Optimized Non-RSS steering
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] mlx4_en: eth1: Link Up
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] hv_netvsc 00224879-a126-0022-4879-a12600224879 eth0: Data path switched to VF: eth1
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] hv_netvsc 00224879-a126-0022-4879-a12600224879 eth0: Data path switched from VF: eth1
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] mlx4_en: eth1: Close port called
[Tue May 10 22:18:50 2022] mlx4_core d22f:00:02.0: Failed to release qp range base:685174 cnt:1

The ip addr command reports eth1 secondary interface as DOWN.

# /sbin/ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:22:48:79:a1:26 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.0.4/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::222:48ff:fe79:a126/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master eth0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:22:48:79:a1:26 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enP53807p0s2
    altname enP53807s1

Resolution

Remove the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 file and restart networking.

Cause

Configuration management or adding a second NIC to a VM on the platform creates a /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 file. This file is currently not cleaned up automatically and its presence conflicts with the automatic configuration of a secondary (slave) eth1 virtual interface by the Mellanox driver when accelerated networking is enabled.

Status

Reported to Engineering

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Document ID:000020694
Creation Date: 11-Jul-2022
Modified Date:14-Jul-2022
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

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