linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 5/6] iommu/dma: Allow a single FQ in addition to per-CPU FQs

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Message-ID: <2bd0da80754331e00f66c724138d9bbf157e1565.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:47:18 +0200
From:   Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
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        Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/6] iommu/dma: Allow a single FQ in addition to
 per-CPU FQs

On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 16:53 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> In some virtualized environments, including s390 paged memory guests,
> IOTLB flushes are used to update IOMMU shadow tables. Due to this, they
> are much more expensive than in typical bare metal environments or
> non-paged s390 guests. In addition they may parallelize poorly in
> virtualized environments. This changes the trade off for flushing IOVAs
> such that minimizing the number of IOTLB flushes trumps any benefit of
> cheaper queuing operations or increased paralellism.
> 
> In this scenario per-CPU flush queues pose several problems. Firstly
> per-CPU memory is often quite limited prohibiting larger queues.
> Secondly collecting IOVAs per-CPU but flushing via a global timeout
> reduces the number of IOVAs flushed for each timeout especially on s390
> where PCI interrupts may not be bound to a specific CPU.
> 
> Let's introduce a single flush queue mode that reuses the same queue
> logic but only allocates a single global queue. This mode is selected by
> dma-iommu if a newly introduced .shadow_on_flush flag is set in struct
> dev_iommu. As a first user the s390 IOMMU driver sets this flag during
> probe_device. With the unchanged small FQ size and timeouts this setting
> is worse than per-CPU queues but a follow up patch will make the FQ size
> and timeout variable. Together this allows the common IOVA flushing code
> to more closely resemble the global flush behavior used on s390's
> previous internal DMA API implementation.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/3e402947-61f9-b7e8-1414-fde006257b6f@arm.com/
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com> #s390
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---

Gentle ping. As stated in the cover letter this version aimed to
resolve the only outstanding feedback of removing the .tune_dma_iommu()
op in favor of a .shadow_on_flush flag in struct dev_iommu. This then
let's the dma-iommu choose a single queue and larger timeouts and IOVA
counts. This leaves the dma-iommu  with full responsibility for the
settings.

Thanks,
Niklas