Patch "mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule

to the 4.4-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:
     mlx4-invoke-softirqs-after-napi_reschedule.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Feb 14 16:29:59 PST 2017
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 10:14:31 -0800
Subject: mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule

From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>


[ 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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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
@@ -502,8 +502,11 @@ 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();
+		}
 	}
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bpoirier@suse.com are

queue-4.4/mlx4-invoke-softirqs-after-napi_reschedule.patch