From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Yan Zhao" <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
"Eric Auger" <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:34:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb2f8d35-3f04-55ac-e0c0-7eeedbaf2429@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200709141037.GF199122@xz-x1>
On 2020/7/9 下午10:10, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 01:58:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> - If we care the performance, it's better to implement the MAP event for
>>>> vhost, otherwise it could be a lot of IOTLB miss
>>> I feel like these are two things.
>>>
>>> So far what we are talking about is whether vt-d should have knowledge about
>>> what kind of events one iommu notifier is interested in. I still think we
>>> should keep this as answered in question 1.
>>>
>>> The other question is whether we want to switch vhost from UNMAP to MAP/UNMAP
>>> events even without vDMA, so that vhost can establish the mapping even before
>>> IO starts. IMHO it's doable, but only if the guest runs DPDK workloads. When
>>> the guest is using dynamic iommu page mappings, I feel like that can be even
>>> slower, because then the worst case is for each IO we'll need to vmexit twice:
>>>
>>> - The first vmexit caused by an invalidation to MAP the page tables, so vhost
>>> will setup the page table before IO starts
>>>
>>> - IO/DMA triggers and completes
>>>
>>> - The second vmexit caused by another invalidation to UNMAP the page tables
>>>
>>> So it seems to be worse than when vhost only uses UNMAP like right now. At
>>> least we only have one vmexit (when UNMAP). We'll have a vhost translate()
>>> request from kernel to userspace, but IMHO that's cheaper than the vmexit.
>>
>> Right but then I would still prefer to have another notifier.
>>
>> Since vtd_page_walk has nothing to do with device IOTLB. IOMMU have a
>> dedicated command for flushing device IOTLB. But the check for
>> vtd_as_has_map_notifier is used to skip the device which can do demand
>> paging via ATS or device specific way. If we have two different notifiers,
>> vhost will be on the device iotlb notifier so we don't need it at all?
> But we can still have iommu notifier that only registers to UNMAP even after we
> introduce dev-iotlb notifier? We don't want to do page walk for them as well.
> TCG should be the only one so far, but I don't know.. maybe there can still be
> new ones?
I think you're right. But looking at the codes, it looks like the check
of vtd_as_has_map_notifier() was only used in:
1) vtd_iommu_replay()
2) vtd_iotlb_page_invalidate_notify() (PSI)
For the replay, it's expensive anyhow. For PSI, I think it's just about
one or few mappings, not sure it will have obvious performance impact.
And I had two questions:
1) The codes doesn't check map for DSI or GI, does this match what spec
said? (It looks to me the spec is unclear in this part)
2) for the replay() I don't see other implementations (either spapr or
generic one) that did unmap (actually they skip unmap explicitly), any
reason for doing this in intel IOMMU?
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-26 6:41 [RFC v2 0/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-26 6:41 ` [RFC v2 1/1] " Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-26 21:29 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-27 7:26 ` Yan Zhao
2020-06-27 12:57 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-28 1:36 ` Yan Zhao
2020-06-28 7:03 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-28 14:47 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-29 5:51 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-29 13:34 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-30 2:41 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 8:29 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 9:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-30 9:23 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 15:20 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 8:11 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-01 12:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 12:30 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-01 12:41 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-02 3:00 ` Jason Wang
2020-06-30 15:39 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-01 8:09 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-02 3:01 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-02 15:45 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-03 7:24 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-03 13:03 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-07 8:03 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-07 19:54 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-08 5:42 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-08 14:16 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-09 5:58 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-09 14:10 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-10 6:34 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2020-07-10 13:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-13 4:04 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-16 1:00 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-16 2:54 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-17 14:18 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-20 4:02 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-20 13:03 ` Peter Xu
2020-07-21 6:20 ` Jason Wang
2020-07-21 15:10 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-04 20:30 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-05 5:45 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-11 17:01 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-11 17:10 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-29 15:05 ` [RFC v2 0/1] " Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-03 7:39 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-07-03 10:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-11 17:55 ` [RFC v3 " Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-11 17:55 ` [RFC v3 1/1] memory: Skip bad range assertion if notifier supports arbitrary masks Eugenio Pérez
2020-08-12 2:24 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-12 8:49 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-18 14:24 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-19 7:15 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-19 8:22 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-19 9:36 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-19 15:50 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-20 2:28 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-21 14:12 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-01 3:05 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-01 19:35 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-02 5:13 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-11 18:10 ` [RFC v3 0/1] memory: Delete assertion in memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-11 19:27 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-12 14:33 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-08-12 21:12 ` Peter Xu
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