Re: [PATCH net] mlx4: do not call napi_schedule() without care

[Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>]

Thanks Eric.

On 13/01/2017 6:39 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> Disable BH around the call to napi_schedule() to avoid following warning
>
> [   52.095499] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
> [   52.421291] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
> [   52.608313] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
>
> Fixes: 8d59de8f7bb3 ("net/mlx4_en: Process all completions in RX rings after port goes up")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c |    5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
> index 4910d9af19335d4b97d39760c163b41eecc26242..761f8b12399cab245abccc0f7d7f84fde742c14d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
> @@ -1748,8 +1748,11 @@ int mlx4_en_start_port(struct net_device *dev)
>   	/* Process all completions if exist to prevent
>   	 * the queues freezing if they are full
>   	 */
> -	for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++)
> +	for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) {
> +		local_bh_disable();
>   		napi_schedule(&priv->rx_cq[i]->napi);
> +		local_bh_enable();
> +	}
>   
>   	netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
>   	netif_device_attach(dev);
>
>
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>