Chetan Nigudgi

Resolving NIC Rename Race Conditions in Multi-NIC Bare-Metal Provisioning at Scale

Network interface naming on multi-NIC Linux systems suffers from a well-documented race condition in systemd-udevd that has remained unsolved since 2017 (systemd/systemd#16665, #7293, #11436). When multiple network interfaces are present, parallel udev worker threads attempt to r...