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

From: Sohil Mehta
Date: Thu Sep 23 2021 - 20:17:21 EST


On 9/23/2021 5:19 AM, Greg KH wrote:

What real workload can actually use this?

I missed replying to this.

User mode runtimes is one the usages that we think would benefit from User IPIs.

Also as Jens mentioned in another thread, this could help kernel to user notifications in io_uring (using User Interrupts instead of eventfd for signaling).

Libevent is another abstraction that we are evaluating.


Thanks,

Sohil