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Linus Torvalds 9776dd3609 X86 interrupt handling update:

Support for posted interrupts on bare metal
 
     Posted interrupts is a virtualization feature which allows to inject
     interrupts directly into a guest without host interaction. The VT-d
     interrupt remapping hardware sets the bit which corresponds to the
     interrupt vector in a vector bitmap which is either used to inject the
     interrupt directly into the guest via a virtualized APIC or in case
     that the guest is scheduled out provides a host side notification
     interrupt which informs the host that an interrupt has been marked
     pending in the bitmap.
 
     This can be utilized on bare metal for scenarios where multiple
     devices, e.g. NVME storage, raise interrupts with a high frequency.  In
     the default mode these interrupts are handles independently and
     therefore require a full roundtrip of interrupt entry/exit.
 
     Utilizing posted interrupts this roundtrip overhead can be avoided by
     coalescing these interrupt entries to a single entry for the posted
     interrupt notification. The notification interrupt then demultiplexes
     the pending bits in a memory based bitmap and invokes the corresponding
     device specific handlers.
 
     Depending on the usage scenario and device utilization throughput
     improvements between 10% and 130% have been measured.
 
     As this is only relevant for high end servers with multiple device
     queues per CPU attached and counterproductive for situations where
     interrupts are arriving at distinct times, the functionality is opt-in
     via a kernel command line parameter.
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Merge tag 'x86-irq-2024-05-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 interrupt handling updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Add support for posted interrupts on bare metal.

  Posted interrupts is a virtualization feature which allows to inject
  interrupts directly into a guest without host interaction. The VT-d
  interrupt remapping hardware sets the bit which corresponds to the
  interrupt vector in a vector bitmap which is either used to inject the
  interrupt directly into the guest via a virtualized APIC or in case
  that the guest is scheduled out provides a host side notification
  interrupt which informs the host that an interrupt has been marked
  pending in the bitmap.

  This can be utilized on bare metal for scenarios where multiple
  devices, e.g. NVME storage, raise interrupts with a high frequency. In
  the default mode these interrupts are handles independently and
  therefore require a full roundtrip of interrupt entry/exit.

  Utilizing posted interrupts this roundtrip overhead can be avoided by
  coalescing these interrupt entries to a single entry for the posted
  interrupt notification. The notification interrupt then demultiplexes
  the pending bits in a memory based bitmap and invokes the
  corresponding device specific handlers.

  Depending on the usage scenario and device utilization throughput
  improvements between 10% and 130% have been measured.

  As this is only relevant for high end servers with multiple device
  queues per CPU attached and counterproductive for situations where
  interrupts are arriving at distinct times, the functionality is opt-in
  via a kernel command line parameter"

* tag 'x86-irq-2024-05-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/irq: Use existing helper for pending vector check
  iommu/vt-d: Enable posted mode for device MSIs
  iommu/vt-d: Make posted MSI an opt-in command line option
  x86/irq: Extend checks for pending vectors to posted interrupts
  x86/irq: Factor out common code for checking pending interrupts
  x86/irq: Install posted MSI notification handler
  x86/irq: Factor out handler invocation from common_interrupt()
  x86/irq: Set up per host CPU posted interrupt descriptors
  x86/irq: Reserve a per CPU IDT vector for posted MSIs
  x86/irq: Add a Kconfig option for posted MSI
  x86/irq: Remove bitfields in posted interrupt descriptor
  x86/irq: Unionize PID.PIR for 64bit access w/o casting
  KVM: VMX: Move posted interrupt descriptor out of VMX code

2024-05-14 10:01:29 -07:00

alpha

alpha: drop pre-EV56 support

2024-05-06 12:05:00 +02:00

arc

ARC: [plat-hsdk]: Remove misplaced interrupt-cells property

2024-04-16 10:45:57 -07:00

arm

Updates for the interrupt subsystem:

2024-05-14 09:47:14 -07:00

arm64

Updates for the interrupt subsystem: