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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.

--HPS