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

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Date:   Mon, 06 Feb 2017 10:47:07 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule

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 <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks