From: gree...@candelatech.com
> Sent: 24 March 2017 20:59
> From: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
>
> In systems where you may have a very large number of network
> adapters, certain drivers may consume an unfair amount of
> IRQ resources. So, allow a module param that will limit the
> number of IRQs at driver load time. This way, other drivers
> (40G Ethernet, for instance), which probably will need the
> multiple IRQs more, will not be starved of IRQ resources.
ISTM that the functions for allocating MSI-X should allow a
driver to request additional interrupts after the original probe.
Then drivers than can use additional interrupts but get probed
early won't use up all the vectors before other drivers get
a chance.
David
