3.16.42-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bd4ce941c8d5b862b2f83364be5dbe8fc8ab48f8 ] 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> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c @@ -506,8 +506,11 @@ void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx return; for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) { - if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) + if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) { + local_bh_disable(); napi_reschedule(&priv->rx_cq[ring]->napi); + local_bh_enable(); + } } }