Enabling NPAR on Broadcom NetXtreme-E results in driver errors

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Enabling NPAR on Broadcom NetXtreme-E results in driver errors
[   71.275440] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   71.275450] NETDEV WATCHDOG: ens10f7np1 (bnxt_en): transmit queue 1 timed out
[   71.275462] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:477 dev_watchdog+0x28d/0x2a0

then constantly:

[   71.275915] bnxt_en 0000:01:00.7 ens10f7np1: TX timeout detected, starting reset task!
[   71.275939] bnxt_en 0000:01:00.1 ens10f1np1: TX timeout detected, starting reset task!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta (kernel-5.14.0-70.el9)
  • Broadcom BCM57414 NetXtreme-E using bnxt_en driver

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