From: "Jacob Pan (Jun)" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: yi.y.sun@intel.com,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
kevin.tian@intel.com, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
stefanha@gmail.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
jun.j.tian@intel.com,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, jacob.jun.pan@intel.com,
hao.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:22:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200915171319.00003f59@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915235126.GK1573713@nvidia.com>
Hi Jason,
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:51:26 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 03:08:51PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > > A PASID vIOMMU solution sharable with VDPA and VFIO, based on a
> > > PASID control char dev (eg /dev/sva, or maybe /dev/iommu) seems
> > > like a reasonable starting point for discussion.
> >
> > I am not sure what can really be consolidated in /dev/sva.
>
> More or less, everything in this patch. All the manipulations of PASID
> that are required for vIOMMU use case/etc. Basically all PASID control
> that is not just a 1:1 mapping of the mm_struct.
>
> > will have their own kerne-user interfaces anyway for their usage
> > models. They are just providing the specific transport while
> > sharing generic IOMMU UAPIs and IOASID management.
>
> > As I mentioned PASID management is already consolidated in the
> > IOASID layer, so for VDPA or other users, it just matter of create
> > its own ioasid_set, doing allocation.
>
> Creating the PASID is not the problem, managing what the PASID maps to
> is the issue. That is all uAPI that we don't really have today.
>
> > IOASID is also available to the in-kernel users which does not
> > need /dev/sva AFAICT. For bare metal SVA, I don't see a need to
> > create this 'floating' state of the PASID when created by /dev/sva.
> > PASID allocation could happen behind the scene when users need to
> > bind page tables to a device DMA stream.
>
> My point is I would like to see one set of uAPI ioctls to bind page
> tables. I don't want to have VFIO, VDPA, etc, etc uAPIs to do the
> exact same things only slightly differently.
>
Got your point. I am not familiar with VDPA but for VFIO UAPI, it is
very thin, mostly passthrough IOMMU UAPI struct as opaque data.
> If user space wants to bind page tables, create the PASID with
> /dev/sva, use ioctls there to setup the page table the way it wants,
> then pass the now configured PASID to a driver that can use it.
>
Are we talking about bare metal SVA? If so, I don't see the need for
userspace to know there is a PASID. All user space need is that my
current mm is bound to a device by the driver. So it can be a one-step
process for user instead of two.
> Driver does not do page table binding. Do not duplicate all the
> control plane uAPI in every driver.
>
> PASID managment and binding is seperated from the driver(s) that are
> using the PASID.
>
Why separate? Drivers need to be involved in PASID life cycle
management. For example, when tearing down a PASID, the driver needs to
stop DMA, IOMMU driver needs to unbind, etc. If driver is the control
point, then things are just in order. I am referring to bare metal SVA.
For guest SVA, I agree that binding is separate from PASID allocation.
Could you review this doc. in terms of life cycle?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/22/13
My point is that /dev/sda has no value for bare metal SVA, we are just
talking about if guest SVA UAPIs can be consolidated. Or am I missing
something?
> Jason
Thanks,
Jacob
_______________________________________________
iommu mailing list
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 0:22 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 ` [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Jason Wang
2020-09-14 8:01 ` 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) [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20200915171319.00003f59@linux.intel.com \
--to=jacob.jun.pan@intel.com \
--cc=alex.williamson@redhat.com \
--cc=ashok.raj@intel.com \
--cc=hao.wu@intel.com \
--cc=iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org \
--cc=jasowang@redhat.com \
--cc=jean-philippe@linaro.org \
--cc=jgg@nvidia.com \
--cc=jun.j.tian@intel.com \
--cc=kevin.tian@intel.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=stefanha@gmail.com \
--cc=yi.y.sun@intel.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).