Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] irqbypass: Cleanups and a perf improvement

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, 16 May 2025 16:07:26 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The two primary goals of this series are to make the irqbypass concept
> easier to understand, and to address the terrible performance that can
> result from using a list to track connections.
> 
> For the first goal, track the producer/consumer "tokens" as eventfd context
> pointers instead of opaque "void *".  Supporting arbitrary token types was
> dead infrastructure when it was added 10 years ago, and nothing has changed
> since.  Taking an opaque token makes a very simple concept (device signals
> eventfd; KVM listens to eventfd) unnecessarily difficult to understand.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 irqs, thanks!

[1/8] irqbypass: Drop pointless and misleading THIS_MODULE get/put
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/fa079a0616ed
[2/8] irqbypass: Drop superfluous might_sleep() annotations
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/07fbc83c0152
[3/8] irqbypass: Take ownership of producer/consumer token tracking
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/2b521d86ee80
[4/8] irqbypass: Explicitly track producer and consumer bindings
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/add57f493e08
[5/8] irqbypass: Use paired consumer/producer to disconnect during unregister
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/5d7dbdce388b
[6/8] irqbypass: Use guard(mutex) in lieu of manual lock+unlock
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/46a4bfd0ae48
[7/8] irqbypass: Use xarray to track producers and consumers
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/8394b32faecd
[8/8] irqbypass: Require producers to pass in Linux IRQ number during registration
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/23b54381cee2

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