netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi

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Date:   Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:51:54 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bpoirier@...e.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tariqt@...lanox.com, yishaih@...lanox.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule

From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>
Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2017 10:14:31 -0800

> 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@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!