Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 13/20] mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:53:43 -0800 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
[ 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> --- 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 @@ -502,8 +502,11 @@ 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(); + } } }
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