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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200413084915.1bae0007@w520.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/13/20 7:49 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: >> VFIO's unconditional page pinning is the real problem here IMNHO. They >> don't *really* need to pin the memory. We just don't have good >> paravirtualized IOMMU support or want to pay the runtime cost for >> pin/unpin operations. You *could* totally have speedy VM startup if >> only the pages being accessed or having DMA performed to them were >> allocated. But, the hacks that are in place mean that everything must >> be pinned. > Maybe in an SEV or Secure Boot environment we can assume the VM guest > OS uses the IOMMU exclusively for DMA, but otherwise the IOMMU is > optional (at least for x86, other archs do require IOMMU support > afaik). Therefore, how would we know which pages to pin when there are > only limited configs where we might be able to lean on the vIOMMU to > this extent? Thanks, You can delay pinning until the device is actually used. That should be late enough for the host to figure out whether a paravirtualized IOMMU is in place.