From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@gmail.com>,
rafael@kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
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Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
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Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Jacob jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/8] iommu: Extend iommu_at[de]tach_device() for multi-device groups
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:18:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08e90a61-8491-acf1-ab0f-f93f97366d24@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ygppub+Wjq6mQEAX@8bytes.org>
On 2022-02-14 14:39, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> Groups should disappear into an internal implementation detail, not be
>> so prominent in the API.
>
> Not going to happen, IOMMU groups are ABI and todays device assignment
> code, including user-space, relies on them.
>
> Groups implement and important aspect of hardware IOMMUs that the API
> can not abstract away: That there are devices which share the same
> request-id.
>
> This is not an issue for devices concerned by iommufd, but for legacy
> device assignment it is. The IOMMU-API needs to handle both in a clean
> API, even if it means that drivers need to lookup the sub-group of a
> device first.
>
> And I don't see how a per-device API can handle both in a device-centric
> way. For sure it is not making it 'device centric but operate on groups
> under the hood'.
Arguably, iommu_attach_device() could be renamed something like
iommu_attach_group_for_dev(), since that's effectively the semantic that
all the existing API users want anyway (even VFIO at the high level -
the group is the means for the user to assign their GPU/NIC/whatever
device to their process, not the end in itself). That's just a lot more
churn.
It's not that callers should be blind to the entire concept of groups
altogether - they remain a significant reason why iommu_attach_device()
might fail, for one thing - however what callers really shouldn't need
to be bothered with is the exact *implementation* of groups. I do
actually quite like the idea of refining the group abstraction into
isolation groups as a superset of alias groups, but if anything that's a
further argument for not having the guts of the current abstraction
exposed in places that don't need to care - otherwise that would be
liable to be a microcosm of this series in itself: widespread churn vs.
"same name, new meaning" compromises.
Robin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-14 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-06 2:20 [PATCH v1 0/8] Scrap iommu_attach/detach_group() interfaces Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] iommu: Add iommu_group_replace_domain() Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 17:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-07 0:26 ` Lu Baolu
2022-02-14 12:09 ` Robin Murphy
2022-02-14 12:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 14:10 ` Robin Murphy
2022-02-14 14:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 16:38 ` Robin Murphy
2022-02-14 17:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] vfio/type1: Use iommu_group_replace_domain() Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] iommu: Extend iommu_at[de]tach_device() for multi-device groups Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 17:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-07 1:14 ` Lu Baolu
2022-01-07 1:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 11:39 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-14 13:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 14:39 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-14 15:18 ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2022-02-14 15:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-15 8:58 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-15 13:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-16 6:28 ` Lu Baolu
2022-02-16 13:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] drm/tegra: Use iommu_attach/detatch_device() Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] iommu/amd: Use iommu_attach/detach_device() Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 14:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-07 0:23 ` Lu Baolu
2022-02-14 11:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-14 13:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 13:40 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-14 14:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-14 14:23 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-14 15:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-15 9:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2022-02-15 13:02 ` Robin Murphy
2022-02-15 14:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] gpu/host1x: " Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 15:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-07 0:35 ` Lu Baolu
2022-01-07 0:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-01-07 1:19 ` Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] media: staging: media: tegra-vde: " Lu Baolu
2022-01-06 2:20 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] iommu: Remove iommu_attach/detach_group() Lu Baolu
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