From: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>,
"eric.auger@redhat.com" <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Tian, Jun J" <jun.j.tian@intel.com>,
"Sun, Yi Y" <yi.y.sun@intel.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@intel.com>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
"Yi Sun" <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC v3 03/25] hw/iommu: introduce IOMMUContext
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:25:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A2975661238FB949B60364EF0F2C25743A1BE6EB@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214053620.GR124369@umbus.fritz.box>
> From: David Gibson < david@gibson.dropbear.id.au >
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:36 PM
> To: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC v3 03/25] hw/iommu: introduce IOMMUContext
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 07:15:13AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > > From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:59 AM
> > > To: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [RFC v3 03/25] hw/iommu: introduce IOMMUContext
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:42:13AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > > > > I'm not very clear on the relationship betwen an IOMMUContext and a
> > > > > DualStageIOMMUObject. Can there be many IOMMUContexts to a
> > > > > DualStageIOMMUOBject? The other way around? Or is it just
> > > > > zero-or-one DualStageIOMMUObjects to an IOMMUContext?
> > > >
> > > > It is possible. As the below patch shows, DualStageIOMMUObject is per vfio
> > > > container. IOMMUContext can be either per-device or shared across devices,
> > > > it depends on vendor specific vIOMMU emulators.
> > >
> > > Is there an example when an IOMMUContext can be not per-device?
> >
> > No, I don’t have such example so far. But as IOMMUContext is got from
> > pci_device_iommu_context(), in concept it possible to be not per-device.
> > It is kind of leave to vIOMMU to decide if different devices could share a
> > single IOMMUContext.
>
> On the "pseries" machine the vIOMMU only has one set of translations
> for a whole virtual PCI Host Bridge (vPHB). So if you attach multiple
> devices to a single vPHB, I believe you'd get multiple devices in an
> IOMMUContext. Well.. if we did the PASID stuff, which we don't at the
> moment.
>
> Note that on pseries on the other hand it's routine to create multiple
> vPHBs, rather than multiple PCI roots being an oddity as it is on x86.
Thanks for the example, David. :-) BTW. I'll drop IOMMUContext in next version
as the email below mentioned. Please feel free let me know your opinion.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-02/msg02874.html
Regards,
Yi Liu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-15 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 12:16 [RFC v3 00/25] intel_iommu: expose Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 01/25] hw/pci: modify pci_setup_iommu() to set PCIIOMMUOps Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 02/25] hw/iommu: introduce DualStageIOMMUObject Liu, Yi L
2020-01-31 3:59 ` David Gibson
2020-01-31 11:42 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-12 6:32 ` David Gibson
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 03/25] hw/iommu: introduce IOMMUContext Liu, Yi L
2020-01-31 4:06 ` David Gibson
2020-01-31 11:42 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 16:58 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:15 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-12 15:59 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-13 2:46 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-14 5:36 ` David Gibson
2020-02-15 6:25 ` Liu, Yi L [this message]
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 04/25] hw/pci: introduce pci_device_iommu_context() Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 05/25] intel_iommu: provide get_iommu_context() callback Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 06/25] scripts/update-linux-headers: Import iommu.h Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:25 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-01-31 11:40 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 07/25] header file update VFIO/IOMMU vSVA APIs Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-01-31 11:41 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 08/25] vfio: pass IOMMUContext into vfio_get_group() Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 09/25] vfio: check VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU support Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 19:08 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:16 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 10/25] vfio: register DualStageIOMMUObject to vIOMMU Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 11/25] vfio: get stage-1 pasid formats from Kernel Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 19:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:19 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 12/25] vfio/common: add pasid_alloc/free support Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 19:31 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:20 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 13/25] intel_iommu: modify x-scalable-mode to be string option Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 19:43 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:28 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-12 16:05 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-13 2:44 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 14/25] intel_iommu: add virtual command capability support Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 20:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:32 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 21:56 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-13 2:40 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-13 14:31 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-13 15:08 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-15 8:49 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 15/25] intel_iommu: process pasid cache invalidation Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 20:17 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 7:33 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 16/25] intel_iommu: add PASID cache management infrastructure Liu, Yi L
2020-02-11 23:35 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-12 8:37 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-12 15:26 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-13 2:59 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-02-13 15:14 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-15 8:50 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 17/25] vfio: add bind stage-1 page table support Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 18/25] intel_iommu: bind/unbind guest page table to host Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 19/25] intel_iommu: replay guest pasid bindings " Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 20/25] intel_iommu: replay pasid binds after context cache invalidation Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 21/25] intel_iommu: do not pass down pasid bind for PASID #0 Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 22/25] vfio: add support for flush iommu stage-1 cache Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 23/25] intel_iommu: process PASID-based iotlb invalidation Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 24/25] intel_iommu: propagate PASID-based iotlb invalidation to host Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 12:16 ` [RFC v3 25/25] intel_iommu: process PASID-based Device-TLB invalidation Liu, Yi L
2020-01-29 13:44 ` [RFC v3 00/25] intel_iommu: expose Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs no-reply
2020-01-29 13:48 ` no-reply
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