From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks! -- 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