From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933480AbdBPSBM (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:01:12 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55476 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933267AbdBPRzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:55:36 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin Poirier , Eric Dumazet , Tariq Toukan , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.9 20/32] mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:54:56 -0800 Message-Id: <20170216175313.284025121@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.1 In-Reply-To: <20170216175312.436156263@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170216175312.436156263@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Benjamin Poirier [ Upstream commit bd4ce941c8d5b862b2f83364be5dbe8fc8ab48f8 ] mlx4 may schedule napi from a workqueue. Afterwards, softirqs are not run in a deterministic time frame and the following message may be logged: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 The problem is the same as what was described in commit ec13ee80145c ("virtio_net: invoke softirqs after __napi_schedule") and this patch applies the same fix to mlx4. Fixes: 07841f9d94c1 ("net/mlx4_en: Schedule napi when RX buffers allocation fails") Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c @@ -507,8 +507,11 @@ void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx return; for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) { - if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) + if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) { + local_bh_disable(); napi_reschedule(&priv->rx_cq[ring]->napi); + local_bh_enable(); + } } }