[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule

[Eric Dumazet]

On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 17:04 -0800, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> The following message is logged from time to time when using i40e:
> NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
> 
> i40e may schedule napi from a workqueue. Afterwards, softirqs are not run
> in a deterministic time frame. 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 i40e.

Yes, I believe mlx4 has a similar problem in mlx4_en_recover_from_oom()