RE: [5.14-rc1] mlx5_core receives no interrupts with maxcpus=8

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 17:16:46 EST


Dexuan,

On Mon, Jul 19 2021 at 20:33, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> This is a bare metal x86-64 host with Intel CPUs. Yes, I believe the
> issue is in the IOMMU Interrupt Remapping mechanism rather in the
> NIC driver. I just don't understand why bringing the CPUs online and
> offline can work around the issue. I'm trying to dump the IOMMU IR
> table entries to look for any error.

can you please enable GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS and provide the output of

cat /sys/kernel/debug/irq/irqs/$THENICIRQS

Thanks,

tglx