From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Quan Xu <quan.xu@intel.com>
Cc: dario.faggioli@citrix.com, feng.wu@intel.com,
kevin.tian@intel.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v11 2/3] vt-d: synchronize for Device-TLB flush one by one
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:49:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57502B5902000078000F0E24@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464771922-7794-3-git-send-email-quan.xu@intel.com>
>>> On 01.06.16 at 11:05, <quan.xu@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Quan Xu <quan.xu@intel.com>
>
> Today we do Device-TLB flush synchronization after issuing flush
> requests for all ATS devices belonging to a VM. Doing so however
> imposes a limitation, i.e. that we can not figure out which flush
> request is blocked in the flush queue list, based on VT-d spec.
>
> To prepare correct Device-TLB flush timeout handling in next patch,
> we change the behavior to synchronize for every Device-TLB flush
> request. So the Device-TLB flush interface is changed a little bit,
> by checking timeout within the function instead of outside of function.
>
> Accordingly we also do a similar change for flush interfaces of
> IOTLB/IEC/Context, i.e. moving synchronization into the function.
> Since there is no user of a non-synced interface, we just rename
> existing ones with _sync suffix.
>
> v11:
> 1. Add __must_check annotation to invalidate_sync().
> 2. Remove the redundant invalidate_sync() in flush_iotlb_qi().
> 3. Refactor invalidate_sync() to indicate whether we need to flush
> device IOTLB or not (I'll change it back in next patch, as I'll
> add a specific function - dev_invalidate_sync() for device IOTLB
> invalidation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-01 9:05 [Patch v11 0/3] VT-d Device-TLB flush issue Xu, Quan
2016-06-01 9:05 ` [Patch v11 1/3] IOMMU: add a timeout parameter for device IOTLB invalidation Xu, Quan
2016-06-02 10:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 2:55 ` Xu, Quan
2016-06-01 9:05 ` [Patch v11 2/3] vt-d: synchronize for Device-TLB flush one by one Xu, Quan
2016-06-02 10:49 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2016-06-01 9:05 ` [Patch v11 3/3] vt-d: fix vt-d Device-TLB flush timeout issue Xu, Quan
2016-06-02 11:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 8:42 ` Xu, Quan
2016-06-16 9:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 6:08 ` Xu, Quan
2016-06-17 7:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 8:15 ` Xu, Quan
2016-06-17 8:40 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-22 15:54 ` Xu, Quan
2016-06-22 16:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-23 2:08 ` Xu, Quan
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