From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org,
srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 22:17:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803221634-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180803070507.GA1344@infradead.org>
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 12:05:07AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:13:09PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > So let's differenciate the two problems of having an IOMMU (real or
> > emulated) which indeeds adds overhead etc... and using the DMA API.
> >
> > At the moment, virtio does this all over the place:
> >
> > if (use_dma_api)
> > dma_map/alloc_something(...)
> > else
> > use_pa
> >
> > The idea of the patch set is to do two, somewhat orthogonal, changes
> > that together achieve what we want. Let me know where you think there
> > is "a bunch of issues" because I'm missing it:
> >
> > 1- Replace the above if/else constructs with just calling the DMA API,
> > and have virtio, at initialization, hookup its own dma_ops that just
> > "return pa" (roughly) when the IOMMU stuff isn't used.
> >
> > This adds an indirect function call to the path that previously didn't
> > have one (the else case above). Is that a significant/measurable
> > overhead ?
>
> If you call it often enough it does:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg495413.html
>
> > 2- Make virtio use the DMA API with our custom platform-provided
> > swiotlb callbacks when needed, that is when not using IOMMU *and*
> > running on a secure VM in our case.
>
> And total NAK the customer platform-provided part of this. We need
> a flag passed in from the hypervisor that the device needs all bus
> specific dma api treatment, and then just use the normal plaform
> dma mapping setup. To get swiotlb you'll need to then use the DT/ACPI
> dma-range property to limit the addressable range, and a swiotlb
> capable plaform will use swiotlb automatically.
It seems reasonable to teach a platform to override dma-range
for a specific device e.g. in case it knows about bugs in ACPI.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-03 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-20 3:59 [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-20 3:59 ` [RFC 1/4] virtio: Define virtio_direct_dma_ops structure Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-30 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-31 4:01 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-20 3:59 ` [RFC 2/4] virtio: Override device's DMA OPS with virtio_direct_dma_ops selectively Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-28 8:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-28 21:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-30 4:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-30 9:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-31 6:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-30 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-31 7:00 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-20 3:59 ` [RFC 3/4] virtio: Force virtio core to use DMA API callbacks for all virtio devices Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-20 3:59 ` [RFC 4/4] virtio: Add platform specific DMA API translation for virito devices Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-20 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-23 2:16 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-25 4:30 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-25 13:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-20 13:16 ` [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-23 6:28 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-23 9:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-25 3:26 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-27 11:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-28 8:37 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-27 9:58 ` Will Deacon
2018-07-27 10:58 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-07-30 9:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-30 10:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-30 11:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-30 13:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-31 17:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-31 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-01 8:16 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-01 8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-01 9:05 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-01 22:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-01 22:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-02 15:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-02 15:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-02 16:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-02 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-02 17:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-02 20:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-02 21:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-02 21:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-03 7:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-03 15:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-03 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-03 18:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-04 8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-05 1:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-05 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-06 19:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-07 6:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-07 6:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-07 13:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-07 20:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-08 6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-08 10:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-08 12:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-08 13:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-08 20:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-08 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-09 2:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-09 5:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-07 0:09 ` Jiandi An
2018-09-10 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-10 8:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-08-03 19:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-04 1:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-04 1:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 0:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-05 4:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 13:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 19:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 20:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 21:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 21:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-06 23:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-07 0:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-07 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-07 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-07 6:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-07 6:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-07 6:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-06 23:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-07 6:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-04 1:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-04 1:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 0:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-03 19:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-08-04 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-05 0:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-05 1:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-05 0:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 0:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 14:05 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-01 21:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-02 15:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-02 20:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-03 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-02 20:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-03 2:41 ` Jason Wang
2018-08-03 19:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-04 1:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-05 0:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 9:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-08-06 13:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 15:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-06 16:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-06 16:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06 16:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
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