Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:18:55 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86/tboot: add an option to disable iommu force on
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 07:49:02AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> This is exactly the usage for us. And please note, not everybody should
> sacrifice the DMA security. It is only required when the pcie device hits iommu
> hardware limitation. In our enviroment, normal network workloads (as high as
> 60k pps) are completely ok with iommu enabled. Only the XDP workload, which can
> do around 200k pps, is suffering from the problem. So completely forcing iommu
> off for some workloads without the performance issue isn't good because of the
> DMA security.

How big are the packets in your XDP workload? I also run pps tests for
performance measurement on older desktop-class hardware
(Xeon E5-1620 v2 and AMD FX 6100) and 10GBit network
hardware, and easily get over the 200k pps mark with IOMMU enabled. The
Intel system can receive >900k pps and the AMD system is still at
~240k pps.

But my tests only send IPv4/UDP packets with 8bytes of payload, so that
is probably different to your setup.


	Joerg