mlx5 irq

[Michal Vančo]

On 01/10/2020 10:52, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 2020-10-01 10:24, Michal Vančo wrote:
>> But why is the actual number of IRQ lines bigger than number of CPU
>> cores?
>
> There are some dedicated IRQ's used for firmware management.
>
> Else the driver will use the number of online CPU's by default as the
> number of rings, if the hardware supports it.

Thanks for clarification. Is there any way to optimize this? In my case
I have 2 CPU sockets with 8 cores each (SMT is disabled). NIC is
connected via PCIe to the first CPU socket (numa domain 0). In this
case, wouldn't it be better if all interrupts were firing only on cores
of first socket?