Hi Stephen,
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 4
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: Using IOMMU type 8 (No-IOMMU)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_ixgbe (8086:15e4) device: 0000:02:00.0 (socket -1)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_ixgbe (8086:15e4) device: 0000:02:00.1 (socket -1)
EAL: Ignore mapping IO port bar(2)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_e1000_igb (8086:1521) device: 0000:04:00.1 (socket -11)
# cat /proc/interrupts | grep vfio
59: 0 0 6 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048576-edge vfio-msix[0](0000:02:00.0)
60: 0 6 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1050624-edge vfio-msix[0](0000:02:00.1)
61: 0 0 1 0 IR-PCI-MSI 2099200-edge vfio-msix[0](0000:04:00.1)
#>>>>> the above 3 irq's are link state change interrupt, verified by plugging-out and plugging-in eth cable and verified the above irq counter increments every time.
62: 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1050625-edge vfio-msix[1](0000:02:00.1)
63: 0 18200 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 2099201-edge vfio-msix[1](0000:04:00.1)
64: 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048577-edge vfio-msix[1](0000:02:00.0)
#>>>>> igb port irq counter is non-zero (likely to be rxq), where-as the same for ixgbe is 0.
Thanks & Regards,
Rajasekhar