[RHEL6] be2net driver not using multiple queues for interrupts

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Issue

  • be2net dirver not using multiple queues for interrupts - during testing I note that by RHEL server machine isn't using the multiple interrupt queues:
    # uname -a
    Linux bfs-dl360g7-51 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 10 15:42:40 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    
    # cat /etc/redhat-release
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
    
    # /sbin/ethtool eth5
    Settings for eth5:
            Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
            Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
            Supports auto-negotiation: No
            Advertised link modes:  Not reported
            Advertised pause frame use: No
            Advertised auto-negotiation: No
            Speed: 10000Mb/s
            Duplex: Full
            Port: FIBRE
            PHYAD: 1
            Transceiver: external
            Auto-negotiation: off
            Supports Wake-on: g
            Wake-on: d
            Link detected: yes
    
    
    # /sbin/ethtool -i eth5
    driver: be2net
    version: 2.103.298r
    firmware-version: 2.102.453.0
    bus-info: 0000:06:00.1
    
    # cat /proc/interrupts | egrep "(CPU|eth5)"
                CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4       CPU5       CPU6       CPU7       CPU8       CPU9       CPU10      CPU11      CPU12      CPU13      CPU14      CPU15      CPU16      CPU17      CPU18      CPU19      CPU20      CPU21      CPU22      CPU23
      59:         31          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0         40          0          0          0          0  121153332          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-tx
      60:        837          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-rxq0
      61:  171383224          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-rxq1
      62:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-rxq2
      63:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-rxq3
      64:          3          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth5-rxq4
    

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

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