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Message-ID: <f0901be7-1526-5b6a-90cb-6489e53cb92f@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 11:17:21 +0100
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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>,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/wait: Add add_wait_queue_priority()
On 04/11/20 10:35, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-28 at 15:35 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 02:39:43PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
>>>
>>> This allows an exclusive wait_queue_entry to be added at the head of the
>>> queue, instead of the tail as normal. Thus, it gets to consume events
>>> first without allowing non-exclusive waiters to be woken at all.
>>>
>>> The (first) intended use is for KVM IRQFD, which currently has
>>> inconsistent behaviour depending on whether posted interrupts are
>>> available or not. If they are, KVM will bypass the eventfd completely
>>> and deliver interrupts directly to the appropriate vCPU. If not, events
>>> are delivered through the eventfd and userspace will receive them when
>>> polling on the eventfd.
>>>
>>> By using add_wait_queue_priority(), KVM will be able to consistently
>>> consume events within the kernel without accidentally exposing them
>>> to userspace when they're supposed to be bypassed. This, in turn, means
>>> that userspace doesn't have to jump through hoops to avoid listening
>>> on the erroneously noisy eventfd and injecting duplicate interrupts.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
>>
>> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
>
> Thanks. Paolo, the conclusion was that you were going to take this set
> through the KVM tree, wasn't it?
>
Queued, except for patch 2/3 in the eventfd series which Alex hasn't
reviewed/acked yet.
Paolo
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