what is the purpose of interrupt MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_COMP and MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_CMD in mlx-ofed-kernel-3.1

Hi

I'm using a mellanox Infiniband card MT26428 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE].

Additionaly, I'm using the mlnx-ofed-kernel-3.1 on linux kernel version 3.13.0.

When the card is connected and configured (opensm running and the card is connected to another one), I experimented that every 9 seconds the card send 8 interrupts consisting of 4 pairs of type MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_COMP and MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_CMD.

If I modify the function mlx4_interrupt code (which is the interrupt handler in the mlnx-ofed-kernel-3.1) to avoid the handling those two interrupt, the completion queue are immedialty destroy and data transfers are stop.

My question is what are the purpose of those interrupt and why are they that mandatory for to keep queue pair available ?

Here are the codes called by each of those interrupt event in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c

MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_COMP :

cqn = be32_to_cpu(eqe->event.comp.cqn) & 0xffffff;

mlx4_cq_completion(dev, cqn);

MLX4_EVENT_TYPE_CMD :

mlx4_cmd_event(dev, be16_to_cpu(eqe->event.cmd.token), eqe->event.cmd.status,                    be64_to_cpu(eqe->event.cmd.out_param));