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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alexey Kardashevskiy 9554233c9b xics-kvm: enable irqfd for MSI
This enables IRQFD support for sPAPR. The feature decreases the latency
of interrupt handling.

To enable IRQFD for MSI, this sets kvm_gsi_direct_mapping to true which
enables direct MSI mapping.

To enable IRQFD for LSI (level triggered INTx interrupts), a PCI host bus
callback is required. The patch for that is coming next.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-10-25 23:25:47 +02:00
David Gibson 11ad93f681 xics-kvm: Support for in-kernel XICS interrupt controller
Recent (host) kernels support emulating the PAPR defined "XICS" interrupt
controller system within KVM.  This patch allows qemu to initialize and
configure the in-kernel XICS, and keep its state in sync with qemu's XICS
state as necessary.

This should give considerable performance improvements.  e.g. on a simple
IPI ping-pong test between hardware threads, using qemu XICS gives us
around 5,000 irqs/second, whereas the in-kernel XICS gives us around
70,000 irqs/s on the same hardware configuration.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[Mike Qiu <qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: fixed mistype which caused ics_set_kvm_state() to fail]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-10-25 23:25:47 +02:00