I've upgraded cp3003's kernel to 4.9 as part of T162029 but the host unfortunately didn't come back up online properly because of network interface issues. This problem seems to somehow be similar to T148891 although in that case we got a different error message: bnx2x 0000:01:00.0 eth0: NIC Link is Down.
Apr 4 11:20:54 cp3003 kernel: [ 1265.188181] bnx2x 0000:01:00.0 eth0: using MSI-X IRQs: sp 52 fp[0] 54 ... fp[11] 65 Apr 4 11:20:55 cp3003 kernel: [ 1265.357676] bnx2x 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Warning: Unqualified SFP+ module detected, Port 0 from LEONI part number L45593-C100-D20 Apr 4 11:20:55 cp3003 kernel: [ 1265.416246] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
root@cp3003:~# ip link show dev eth0
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq portid d4ae528c8b7e state DOWN 0
link/ether d4:ae:52:8c:8b:7e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ffroot@cp3003:~# ethtool -t eth0 offline [ 1007.699834] bnx2x 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Warning: Unqualified SFP+ module detected, Port 0 from The test result is FAIL The test extra info: register_test (offline) 0 memory_test (offline) 0 int_loopback_test (offline) 0 ext_loopback_test (offline) 0 nvram_test (online) 0 interrupt_test (online) 0 link_test (online) 1
Rebooting the machine into the older 4.4.2-3+wmf8 kernel didn't fix the issue, suggesting that this might well be a hardware problem showing up when the card gets re-initialised.