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xics-kvm: Support for in-kernel XICS interrupt controller
authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:18:44 +0000 (16:18 +1000)
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:25:47 +0000 (23:25 +0200)
commit11ad93f68195f68cc94d988f2aa50b4d190ee52a
tree593486548707d61657eb62f024395fc55fddbdde
parent5eb92ccc3f23f958c0d21bed7c22abe6c1f1adda
xics-kvm: Support for in-kernel XICS interrupt controller

Recent (host) kernels support emulating the PAPR defined "XICS" interrupt
controller system within KVM.  This patch allows qemu to initialize and
configure the in-kernel XICS, and keep its state in sync with qemu's XICS
state as necessary.

This should give considerable performance improvements.  e.g. on a simple
IPI ping-pong test between hardware threads, using qemu XICS gives us
around 5,000 irqs/second, whereas the in-kernel XICS gives us around
70,000 irqs/s on the same hardware configuration.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[Mike Qiu <qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: fixed mistype which caused ics_set_kvm_state() to fail]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
hw/intc/Makefile.objs
hw/intc/xics_kvm.c [new file with mode: 0644]
hw/ppc/spapr.c
include/hw/ppc/xics.h