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From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>, <joro@8bytes.org>,
	<will@kernel.org>, <dwmw2@infradead.org>, <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	<corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
	<thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>, <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>,
	<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 4/6] iommu/vt-d: Add support for IOMMU default DMA mode build options
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:31:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b654480e-d5ac-9e4c-1074-1158cccc5806@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d53a6472-4628-313e-30a5-f76e016c9cb9@linux.intel.com>

On 18/06/2021 02:46, Lu Baolu wrote:

Hi baolu,

>> I need to change that. How about this:
>>
>> bool print_warning = false;
>>
>> for_each_active_iommu(iommu, drhd) {
>>      /*
>>       * The flush queue implementation does not perform
>>       * page-selective invalidations that are required for efficient
>>       * TLB flushes in virtual environments.  The benefit of batching
>>       * is likely to be much lower than the overhead of synchronizing
>>       * the virtual and physical IOMMU page-tables.
>>       */
>>      if (!print_warning && cap_caching_mode(iommu->cap)) {
>>          pr_warn("IOMMU batching disallowed due to virtualization\n");
>>          iommu_set_dma_strict(true);
>>          print_warning = true;
>>      }
>>      ...
>> }
>>
>> or use pr_warn_once().
> 
>  From my p.o.v, pr_xxxx_once() is better.
> 
> How about using a pr_info_once()? I don't think it's a warning, it's
> just a policy choice in VM environment.

ok, I can go with that, which Robin mostly agrees with.

Thanks,
John

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-16 11:03 [PATCH v13 0/6] iommu: Enhance IOMMU default DMA mode build options John Garry
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 1/6] iommu: Deprecate Intel and AMD cmdline methods to enable strict mode John Garry
2021-06-17 19:01   ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-18  7:43     ` John Garry
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 2/6] iommu: Print strict or lazy mode at init time John Garry
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 3/6] iommu: Enhance IOMMU default DMA mode build options John Garry
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 4/6] iommu/vt-d: Add support for " John Garry
2021-06-17  7:32   ` Lu Baolu
2021-06-17  8:00     ` John Garry
2021-06-17 19:03       ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-18  1:46       ` Lu Baolu
2021-06-18  7:31         ` John Garry [this message]
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 5/6] iommu/amd: " John Garry
2021-06-16 11:03 ` [PATCH v13 6/6] iommu: Remove mode argument from iommu_set_dma_strict() John Garry
2021-06-17  7:36   ` Lu Baolu
2021-06-17  7:41     ` John Garry
2021-06-18  1:52       ` Lu Baolu
2021-06-17 18:56     ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-18  1:51       ` Lu Baolu

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