On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 10:14 -0800, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Thanks
