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. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c index eac527e25ec9..14ce1549b638 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c @@ -513,10 +513,12 @@ void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv) if (!priv->port_up) return; + local_bh_disable(); for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) { if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) napi_reschedule(&priv->rx_cq[ring]->napi); } + local_bh_enable(); } /* When the rx ring is running in page-per-packet mode, a released frame can go -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html