netdev - Re: bnx2/BCM5709: why 5 interrupts on a 4 core system (2.6.33.3)

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Date:	Sun, 16 May 2010 11:51:45 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"'Krzysztof Oledzki'" <ole@....pl>
cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bnx2/BCM5709: why 5 interrupts on a 4 core system
 (2.6.33.3)

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:

>
> Why the driver registers 5 interrupts instead of 4? How to
> limit it to 4?
>

The first vector (eth0-0) handles link interrupt and other slow
path events.  It also has an RX ring for non-IP packets that are
not hashed by the RSS hash.  The majority of the rx packets should
be hashed to the rx rings eth0-1 - eth0-4, so I would assign these
vectors to different CPUs.

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