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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
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
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