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From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: andmike@us.ibm.com, mst@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ram.n.pai@gmail.com, cai@lca.pw,
	tglx@linutronix.de, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, hch@lst.de,
	bauerman@linux.ibm.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 2/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Use dma_iommu_ops for Secure VMs aswell.
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 20:07:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203040731.GC12354@oc0525413822.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58b08d09-aaf8-5659-c4e8-c502c508f35c@ozlabs.ru>

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:58:18AM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/12/2019 17:45, Ram Pai wrote:
> > Commit edea902c1c1e ("powerpc/pseries/iommu: Don't use dma_iommu_ops on
> > 	       secure guests")
> > disabled dma_iommu_ops path, for secure VMs. The rationale for disabling
> > the dma_iommu_ops path, was to use the dma_direct path, since it had
> > inbuilt support for bounce-buffering through SWIOTLB.
> > 
> > However dma_iommu_ops is functionally much richer. Depending on the
> > capabilities of the platform, it can handle direct DMA; with or without
> > bounce buffering, and it can handle indirect DMA. Hence its better to
> > leverage the richer functionality supported by dma_iommu_ops.
> 
> What exactly do we leverage after applying this patch? afaict things are
> going to work in exact same old way with this applied, no? Thanks,

Yes. You got it right. Another way of saying this is, it reverts the changes.

RP


  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-03  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-02  6:45 [PATCH v4 0/2] Enable IOMMU support for pseries Secure VMs Ram Pai
2019-12-02  6:45 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor Ram Pai
2019-12-02  6:45   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Use dma_iommu_ops for Secure VMs aswell Ram Pai
2019-12-03  0:58     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-03  4:07       ` Ram Pai [this message]
2019-12-03  0:56   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-03  2:08     ` Ram Pai
2019-12-03  2:15       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-03  4:05         ` Ram Pai
2019-12-03  4:24           ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-03 16:52             ` Ram Pai
2019-12-04  0:04               ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-04  0:49                 ` Ram Pai
2019-12-04  1:08                   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-04  3:36                     ` David Gibson
2019-12-04 20:42                       ` Ram Pai
2019-12-04 22:26                         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-12-05  2:15                           ` [PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor.y Ram Pai
2019-12-06 23:10                           ` [PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor Ram Pai
2019-12-05  8:28                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-04 18:26   ` Leonardo Bras
2019-12-04 20:27     ` Ram Pai

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