Azure VM with up to 8 CPUs handles all Mellanox NIC interrupts on CPU0 only, causing low performance

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

All Mellanox interrupts go to CPU 0 only, and causes SR-IOV network performance decrease.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VM)
  • Hyper-V

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