hw/vfio/platform: add irqfd support

This patch aims at optimizing IRQ handling using irqfd framework.

Instead of handling the eventfds on user-side they are handled on
kernel side using
- the KVM irqfd framework,
- the VFIO driver virqfd framework.

the virtual IRQ completion is trapped at interrupt controller
This removes the need for fast/slow path swap.

Overall this brings significant performance improvements.

Signed-off-by: Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Vikram Sethi <vikrams@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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Eric Auger 2015-07-06 12:15:14 -06:00 committed by Alex Williamson
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@ -1594,6 +1594,7 @@ vfio_platform_intp_interrupt(int pin, int fd) "Inject IRQ #%d (fd = %d)"
vfio_platform_intp_inject_pending_lockheld(int pin, int fd) "Inject pending IRQ #%d (fd = %d)"
vfio_platform_populate_interrupts(int pin, int count, int flags) "- IRQ index %d: count %d, flags=0x%x"
vfio_intp_interrupt_set_pending(int index) "irq %d is set PENDING"
vfio_platform_start_irqfd_injection(int index, int fd, int resamplefd) "IRQ index=%d, fd = %d, resamplefd = %d"
#hw/acpi/memory_hotplug.c
mhp_acpi_invalid_slot_selected(uint32_t slot) "0x%"PRIx32