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AFAIK, you don't even run interrupts off the NIC if you're doing DPDK; the overhead is too high. You poll instead, and just dedicate a core.

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I'm unsure. What I'm imagining is that NICs for which DPDK is made have option to do interrupts like "hey, we have just run out of 50% of buffer! Driver, go offload packets to RAM in bulk now"

DPDK's drivers are (as far as I know?) all poll-mode: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.html

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