This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ibmvnic: remove duplicate napi_schedule call in open function to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ibmvnic-remove-duplicate-napi_schedule-call-in-open-function.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7c451f3ef676c805a4b77a743a01a5c21a250a73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lijun Pan <lijunp213@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:46:16 -0500 Subject: ibmvnic: remove duplicate napi_schedule call in open function From: Lijun Pan <lijunp213@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7c451f3ef676c805a4b77a743a01a5c21a250a73 upstream. Remove the unnecessary napi_schedule() call in __ibmvnic_open() since interrupt_rx() calls napi_schedule_prep/__napi_schedule during every receive interrupt. Fixes: ed651a10875f ("ibmvnic: Updated reset handling") Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <lijunp213@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -1099,11 +1099,6 @@ static int __ibmvnic_open(struct net_dev netif_tx_start_all_queues(netdev); - if (prev_state == VNIC_CLOSED) { - for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++) - napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]); - } - adapter->state = VNIC_OPEN; return rc; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lijunp213@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/ibmvnic-remove-duplicate-napi_schedule-call-in-open-function.patch queue-4.19/ibmvnic-avoid-calling-napi_disable-twice.patch queue-4.19/ibmvnic-remove-duplicate-napi_schedule-call-in-do_reset-function.patch