linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] x86 User Interrupts support

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Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:27:37 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Gayatri Kammela <gayatri.kammela@...el.com>,
        Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Randy E Witt <randy.e.witt@...el.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Ramesh Thomas <ramesh.thomas@...el.com>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] x86 User Interrupts support

On 9/13/21 1:01 PM, Sohil Mehta wrote:
> User Interrupts (Uintr) is a hardware technology that enables delivering
> interrupts directly to user space.

Your problem in all of this is going to be convincing folks that this is
a problem worth solving.  I'd start this off with something
attention-grabbing.

Two things.  Good, snazzy writing doesn't repeat words.  You repeated
"interrupt" twice in that first sentence.  It also doesn't get my
attention.  Here's a more concise way of saying it, and also adding
something to get the reader's attention:

	User Interrupts directly deliver events to user space and are
	10x faster than the closest alternative.