peter/qemu - QEMU hacking for Peter

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2013-10-25	xics-kvm: enable irqfd for MSI	Alexey Kardashevskiy	1	-0/+6
	This enables IRQFD support for sPAPR. The feature decreases the latency of interrupt handling. To enable IRQFD for MSI, this sets kvm_gsi_direct_mapping to true which enables direct MSI mapping. To enable IRQFD for LSI (level triggered INTx interrupts), a PCI host bus callback is required. The patch for that is coming next. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-10-25	xics-kvm: Support for in-kernel XICS interrupt controller	David Gibson	1	-0/+488
	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>