Summary:
One of the main disadvantages to using the RPC interface is that it
requires a server thread to spin on the mailboxes checking for work.
The vast majority of the time, there will be no work and work will come
in large bursts.
The HSA / KFD interface supports device-side interrupts and already has
handling for binding these events to an HSA signal. This means that we
can send interrupts from the GPU to wake a sleeping thread on the CPU.
The sleeping thread will be descheduled with a blocking HSA wait call
and woken up when its event ID is raised through the kernel driver's
interrupt.
This is very target-specific handling, but I believe it is valuable
enough to warrant it being in the protocol. It is completely optional,
as it is ignored if uninitialized. This should bring this support at
parity with the interface HIP expects.
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