Hi Alex,
On 11/18/17 11:20 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:51:52 -0700
> Alex Williamson<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:11:19 -0600
>> Suravee Suthikulpanit<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Suravee Suthikulpanit<[email protected]>
>>>
>>> VFIO IOMMU type1 currently upmaps IOVA pages synchronously, which requires
>>> IOTLB flushing for every unmapping. This results in large IOTLB flushing
>>> overhead when handling pass-through devices with a large number of mapped
>>> IOVAs (e.g. GPUs).
>> Of course the type of device is really irrelevant, QEMU maps the entire
>> VM address space for any assigned device.
>>
>>> This can be avoided by using the new IOTLB flushing interface.
>>>
>>> Cc: Alex Williamson<[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Joerg Roedel<[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit<[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 12 +++++++++---
>>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>>> index 92155cc..28a7ab6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>>> @@ -698,10 +698,12 @@ static long vfio_unmap_unpin(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_dma *dma,
>>> break;
>>> }
>>>
>>> - unmapped = iommu_unmap(domain->domain, iova, len);
>>> + unmapped = iommu_unmap_fast(domain->domain, iova, len);
>>> if (WARN_ON(!unmapped))
>>> break;
>>>
>>> + iommu_tlb_range_add(domain->domain, iova, len);
>>> +
>> We should only add @unmapped, not @len, right?
> Actually, the problems are deeper than that, if we can't guarantee that
> the above iommu_unmap_fast has removed the iommu mapping, then we can't
> do the unpin below as that would potentially allow the device access to
> unknown memory. Thus, to support this, the unpinning would need to be
> pushed until after the sync and we therefore need some mechanism of
> remembering the phys addresses that we've unmapped. Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
If so, I am planning to use a list to temporary store information for
unmapped regions to be unpinned after sync. Please lemme know if that
would be alright.
Suravee
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