netdev - RE: [PATCH 3/5] iommu: Introduce the domain op enforce_cache

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Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 07:09:49 +0000
From:   "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Christian Benvenuti" <benve@...co.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Joerg Roedel" <joro@...tes.org>,
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        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
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        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
CC:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/5] iommu: Introduce the domain op
 enforce_cache_coherency()

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:16 AM
> 
> This new mechanism will replace using IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY
> and
> IOMMU_CACHE to control the no-snoop blocking behavior of the IOMMU.
> 
> Currently only Intel and AMD IOMMUs are known to support this
> feature. They both implement it as an IOPTE bit, that when set, will cause
> PCIe TLPs to that IOVA with the no-snoop bit set to be treated as though
> the no-snoop bit was clear.
> 
> The new API is triggered by calling enforce_cache_coherency() before
> mapping any IOVA to the domain which globally switches on no-snoop
> blocking. This allows other implementations that might block no-snoop
> globally and outside the IOPTE - AMD also documents such an HW capability.
> 
> Leave AMD out of sync with Intel and have it block no-snoop even for
> in-kernel users. This can be trivially resolved in a follow up patch.
> 
> Only VFIO will call this new API.

Is it too restrictive? In theory vdpa may also implement a contract with
KVM and then wants to call this new API too?