[Beowulf] eth-mlx4-0/15

[Joachim Worringen]

I assume these are MSI-X interrupts of the one Mellanox driver instance.
This feature allows to spread interrupts more or less evenly across CPUs, in
conjunction with multiple send/recv queues.

Each PCI device has a single driver (unless we talk about virtualized I/O,
which does not apply here). But a single driver can serve any number of
interrupts.

 Joachim

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Robert Kubrick <robertkubrick at gmail.com>wrote:

> I noticed my machine has 16 drivers in the /proc/interrupts table marked as
> eth-mlx4-0 to 15, in addition to the usual mlx-async and mlx-core drivers.
> The server runs Linux Suse RT, has an infiniband interface, OFED 1.1
> drivers, and 16 Xeon MP cores , so I'm assuming all these eth-mlx4 drivers
> are supposed to do "something" with each core. I've never seen these irq
> managers before. When I run infiniband apps the interrupts go to both
> mlx-async and eth-mlx4-0 (just 0, all the other drivers don't get any
> interrupts). Also the eth name part looks suspicious.
>
> I can't find any reference online, any idea what these drivers are about?
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