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Date:      Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:52:48 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Michal_Van=c4=8do?= <michal@microwave.sk>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mlx5 irq
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On 2020-10-01 10:24, Michal VanĨo 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



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