linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] kvm/eventfd: Use priority waitqueue to catch events before userspace

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:39:44 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] kvm/eventfd: Use priority waitqueue to catch events before userspace

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>

When posted interrupts are available, the IRTE is modified to deliver
interrupts direclty to the vCPU and nothing ever reaches userspace, if
it's listening on the same eventfd that feeds the irqfd.

I like that behaviour. Let's do it all the time, even without posted
interrupts. It makes it much easier to handle IRQ remapping invalidation
without having to constantly add/remove the fd from the userspace poll
set. We can just leave userspace polling on it, and the bypass will...
well... bypass it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
---
 virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 87fe94355350..09cbdf2ded70 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ irqfd_wakeup(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key)
 	struct kvm *kvm = irqfd->kvm;
 	unsigned seq;
 	int idx;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (flags & EPOLLIN) {
 		u64 cnt;
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ irqfd_wakeup(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key)
 					      false) == -EWOULDBLOCK)
 			schedule_work(&irqfd->inject);
 		srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
+		ret = 1;
 	}
 
 	if (flags & EPOLLHUP) {
@@ -230,7 +232,7 @@ irqfd_wakeup(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key)
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kvm->irqfds.lock, iflags);
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -239,7 +241,7 @@ irqfd_ptable_queue_proc(struct file *file, wait_queue_head_t *wqh,
 {
 	struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd =
 		container_of(pt, struct kvm_kernel_irqfd, pt);
-	add_wait_queue(wqh, &irqfd->wait);
+	add_wait_queue_priority(wqh, &irqfd->wait);
 }
 
 /* Must be called under irqfds.lock */
-- 
2.26.2