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authorBenjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>2017-02-06 10:14:31 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-02-18 15:11:42 +0100
commit4400acce6881bc40380afa4c0559348a9feb7329 (patch)
treea9319abc1e5a9cb5ea0b81bfec30fb3da223d0b9
parent970390fd5d53de0817b538350131edd2514a8321 (diff)
mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule
[ 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 <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
index f2e8beddcf44..4d3ddc2f7e43 100644
--- 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 mlx4_en_priv *priv)
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();
+ }
}
}