From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
alex.williamson@redhat.com, eric.auger@redhat.com,
baolu.lu@linux.intel.com, joro@8bytes.org
Cc: jean-philippe@linaro.org, kevin.tian@intel.com,
ashok.raj@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
stefanha@gmail.com, jun.j.tian@intel.com,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, yi.y.sun@intel.com,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
hao.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 12:20:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411c81c0-f13c-37cc-6c26-cafb42b46b15@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1599734733-6431-1-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@intel.com>
On 2020/9/10 下午6:45, Liu Yi L wrote:
> Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA), a.k.a, Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) on
> Intel platforms allows address space sharing between device DMA and
> applications. SVA can reduce programming complexity and enhance security.
>
> This VFIO series is intended to expose SVA usage to VMs. i.e. Sharing
> guest application address space with passthru devices. This is called
> vSVA in this series. The whole vSVA enabling requires QEMU/VFIO/IOMMU
> changes. For IOMMU and QEMU changes, they are in separate series (listed
> in the "Related series").
>
> The high-level architecture for SVA virtualization is as below, the key
> design of vSVA support is to utilize the dual-stage IOMMU translation (
> also known as IOMMU nesting translation) capability in host IOMMU.
>
>
> .-------------. .---------------------------.
> | vIOMMU | | Guest process CR3, FL only|
> | | '---------------------------'
> .----------------/
> | PASID Entry |--- PASID cache flush -
> '-------------' |
> | | V
> | | CR3 in GPA
> '-------------'
> Guest
> ------| Shadow |--------------------------|--------
> v v v
> Host
> .-------------. .----------------------.
> | pIOMMU | | Bind FL for GVA-GPA |
> | | '----------------------'
> .----------------/ |
> | PASID Entry | V (Nested xlate)
> '----------------\.------------------------------.
> | ||SL for GPA-HPA, default domain|
> | | '------------------------------'
> '-------------'
> Where:
> - FL = First level/stage one page tables
> - SL = Second level/stage two page tables
>
> Patch Overview:
> 1. reports IOMMU nesting info to userspace ( patch 0001, 0002, 0003, 0015 , 0016)
> 2. vfio support for PASID allocation and free for VMs (patch 0004, 0005, 0007)
> 3. a fix to a revisit in intel iommu driver (patch 0006)
> 4. vfio support for binding guest page table to host (patch 0008, 0009, 0010)
> 5. vfio support for IOMMU cache invalidation from VMs (patch 0011)
> 6. vfio support for vSVA usage on IOMMU-backed mdevs (patch 0012)
> 7. expose PASID capability to VM (patch 0013)
> 8. add doc for VFIO dual stage control (patch 0014)
If it's possible, I would suggest a generic uAPI instead of a VFIO
specific one.
Jason suggest something like /dev/sva. There will be a lot of other
subsystems that could benefit from this (e.g vDPA).
Have you ever considered this approach?
Thanks
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 10:45 [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 01/16] iommu: Report domain nesting info Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 19:38 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 02/16] iommu/smmu: Report empty " Liu Yi L
2021-01-12 6:50 ` Vivek Gautam
2021-01-12 9:21 ` Liu, Yi L
2021-01-12 11:05 ` Vivek Gautam
2021-01-13 5:56 ` Liu, Yi L
2021-01-19 10:03 ` Auger Eric
2021-01-23 8:59 ` Liu, Yi L
2021-02-12 7:14 ` Vivek Gautam
2021-02-12 9:57 ` Auger Eric
2021-02-12 10:18 ` Vivek Kumar Gautam
2021-02-12 11:01 ` Vivek Kumar Gautam
2021-03-03 9:44 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 03/16] vfio/type1: Report iommu nesting info to userspace Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 20:16 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-12 8:24 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 04/16] vfio: Add PASID allocation/free support Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 20:54 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-15 4:03 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 05/16] iommu/vt-d: Support setting ioasid set to domain Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 06/16] iommu/vt-d: Remove get_task_mm() in bind_gpasid() Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 07/16] vfio/type1: Add VFIO_IOMMU_PASID_REQUEST (alloc/free) Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 21:38 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-12 6:17 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 08/16] iommu: Pass domain to sva_unbind_gpasid() Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 09/16] iommu/vt-d: Check ownership for PASIDs from user-space Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 10/16] vfio/type1: Support binding guest page tables to PASID Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 22:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-12 6:02 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 11/16] vfio/type1: Allow invalidating first-level/stage IOMMU cache Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 12/16] vfio/type1: Add vSVA support for IOMMU-backed mdevs Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 13/16] vfio/pci: Expose PCIe PASID capability to guest Liu Yi L
2020-09-11 22:13 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-12 7:17 ` Liu, Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 14/16] vfio: Document dual stage control Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 15/16] iommu/vt-d: Only support nesting when nesting caps are consistent across iommu units Liu Yi L
2020-09-10 10:45 ` [PATCH v7 16/16] iommu/vt-d: Support reporting nesting capability info Liu Yi L
2020-09-14 4:20 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2020-09-14 8:01 ` [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Tian, Kevin
2020-09-14 8:57 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-14 10:38 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-09-14 11:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 13:31 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-14 13:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 16:22 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-09-14 16:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 16:58 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-14 17:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 18:23 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-14 19:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 22:33 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-15 14:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 1:19 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-09-16 8:32 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-16 14:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 16:20 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-16 16:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 16:50 ` Auger Eric
2020-09-16 14:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 6:01 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-09-14 22:44 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-09-15 11:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 18:11 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-09-15 18:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 19:26 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-09-15 23:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 2:33 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-15 22:08 ` Jacob Pan
2020-09-15 23:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 0:22 ` Jacob Pan (Jun)
2020-09-16 1:46 ` Lu Baolu
2020-09-16 15:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 16:33 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-09-16 17:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 18:21 ` Jacob Pan (Jun)
2020-09-16 18:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 23:09 ` Jacob Pan (Jun)
2020-09-17 3:53 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-17 17:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 18:17 ` Jacob Pan (Jun)
2020-09-18 3:58 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-16 2:29 ` Jason Wang
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