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From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/20] xen/biomerge: Don't allow biovec
 to be merge when Linux is not using 4KB page
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:20:55 +0100
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On 16/07/2015 16:33, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 09:42:21PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > > When Linux is using 64K page granularity, every page will be slipt in
> > > > multiple non-contiguous 4K MFN (page granularity of Xen).
> > > 
> > > But you don't care about that on the Linux layer I think?
> > > 
> > > As in, is there an SWIOTLB that does PFN to MFN and vice-versa
> > > translation?
> > > 
> > > I thought that ARM guests are not exposed to the MFN<->PFN logic
> > > and trying to figure that out to not screw up the DMA engine
> > > on a PCIe device slurping up contingous MFNs which don't map
> > > to contingous PFNs?
> > 
> > Dom0 is mapped 1:1, so pfn == mfn normally, however grant maps
> > unavoidably screw up the 1:1, so the swiotlb jumps in to save the day
> > when a foreign granted page is involved in a dma operation.
> > 
> > Regarding xen_biovec_phys_mergeable, we could check that all the pfn ==
> > mfn and return true in that case.
> 
> I mentioned it in the commit message. Although, we would have to loop on every
> pfn which is slow on 64KB (16 times for every page). Given the biovec is
> called often, I don't think we can do a such things.

We would have to run some benchmarks, but I think it would still be a
win. We should write an ad-hoc __pfn_to_mfn translation function that
operates on a range of pfns and simply checks whether an entry is
present in that range. It should be just as fast as __pfn_to_mfn. I
would definitely recommend it.