From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
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will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com,
yi.l.liu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] iommufd: Flush CPU caches on DMA pages in non-coherent domains
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 14:01:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240522170150.GE20229@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zk2Qv4pnSKZBsLYv@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com>
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 02:29:19PM +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > > If you want to minimize flushes then you can't store flush
> > > minimization information in the pages because it isn't global to the
> > > pages and will not be accurate enough.
> > >
> > > > > If pfn_reader_fill_span() does batch_from_domain() and
> > > > > the source domain's storage_domain is non-coherent then you can skip
> > > > > the flush. This is not pedantically perfect in skipping all flushes, but
> > > > > in practice it is probably good enough.
> > >
> > > > We don't know whether the source storage_domain is non-coherent since
> > > > area->storage_domain is of "struct iommu_domain".
> > >
> > > > Do you want to add a flag in "area", e.g. area->storage_domain_is_noncoherent,
> > > > and set this flag along side setting storage_domain?
> > >
> > > Sure, that could work.
> > When the storage_domain is set in iopt_area_fill_domains(),
> > "area->storage_domain = xa_load(&area->iopt->domains, 0);"
> > is there a convenient way to know the storage_domain is non-coherent?
> Also asking for when storage_domain is switching to an arbitrary remaining domain
> in iopt_unfill_domain().
>
> And in iopt_area_unfill_domains(), after iopt_area_unmap_domain_range()
> of a non-coherent domain which is not the storage domain, how can we know that
> the domain is non-coherent?
Yes, it would have to keep track of hwpts in more case unfortunately
:(
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-07 6:18 [PATCH 0/5] Enforce CPU cache flush for non-coherent device assignment Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 6:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/pat: Let pat_pfn_immune_to_uc_mtrr() check MTRR for untracked PAT range Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 8:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-07 9:12 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-08 22:14 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-09 3:36 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-16 7:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-16 14:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-05-20 2:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-07 6:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Fine-grained check of whether a invalid & RAM PFN is MMIO Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 8:39 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-07 9:19 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 6:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/mm: Introduce and export interface arch_clean_nonsnoop_dma() Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 8:51 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-07 9:40 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-20 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-05-21 15:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-21 16:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 3:41 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-28 6:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-01 19:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-06 2:48 ` Yan Zhao
2024-06-06 11:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-06-07 9:39 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 6:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] vfio/type1: Flush CPU caches on DMA pages in non-coherent domains Yan Zhao
2024-05-09 18:10 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-10 10:31 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-10 16:57 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-13 7:11 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-16 7:53 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-16 8:34 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-16 20:31 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-17 17:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-20 2:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-21 16:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-21 16:21 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-21 16:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-21 18:19 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-21 18:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 6:24 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-22 12:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 14:43 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-22 16:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 18:22 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-22 23:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-22 23:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 23:40 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-23 14:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-23 22:47 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-24 0:30 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-24 13:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 3:33 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-22 3:24 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-22 12:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-24 3:07 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-16 20:50 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-17 3:11 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-17 4:44 ` Alex Williamson
2024-05-17 5:00 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-07 6:22 ` [PATCH 5/5] iommufd: " Yan Zhao
2024-05-09 14:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-10 8:03 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-10 13:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-13 7:43 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-14 15:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-15 7:06 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-15 20:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-16 2:32 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-16 8:38 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-05-16 9:48 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-17 17:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-20 2:45 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-21 16:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-22 3:17 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-22 6:29 ` Yan Zhao
2024-05-22 17:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2024-05-27 7:15 ` Yan Zhao
2024-06-01 16:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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