Intel ice driver NETDEV WATCHDOG timeouts

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Depending on the severity of the TX timeout there may be a cluster interruption that requires intervention like node reboots.
  • The following messages will appear in dmesg and journalctl:
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: ens6 (ice): transmit queue 1 timed out
kernel: ice 0000:11:00.0 ens6: tx_timeout recovery level 1, txqueue 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
  • LACP bonding
    • Intel E810 adapters
  • IBM GPFS cluster

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