The ixl.4 manual page has documented that the threshold falsely detects
interrupt storms on 40Gbit NICs as long ago as 2015, and we have seen
similar false positives with the ioat(4) DMA device (which can push GB/s).
For example, synthetic load can be generated with tools/tools/ioat
'ioatcontrol 0 200 8192 1 1000' (allocate 200x8kB buffers, generate an
interrupt for each one, and do this for 1000 milliseconds). With
storm-detection disabled, the Broadwell-EP version of this device is capable
of generating ~350k real interrupts per second.