'network restart' of a bond of infiniband slaves results in output 'SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument'

Issue

To take a bond of infiniband interfaces into service we execute service network restart, this results in this error:

Shutting down interface bond0:                             [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface bond0:                               [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface bond1:  SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
                                                           [  OK  ]

When bringing up the interfaces bevore executing the network restart then the error message does not appear:

# ifup bond1
# ifup ib0
# ifup ib1
# ifdown bond1
# ifup bond1
# /etc/init.d/network restart
                      [  OK  ]