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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/2] vfio: Provide module option to disable vfio


From: Chegu Vinod
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/2] vfio: Provide module option to disable vfio_iommu_type1 hugepage support
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 19:33:21 -0700
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On 5/28/2013 9:27 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
Add a module option to vfio_iommu_type1 to disable IOMMU hugepage
support.  This causes iommu_map to only be called with single page
mappings, disabling the IOMMU driver's ability to use hugepages.
This option can be enabled by loading vfio_iommu_type1 with
disable_hugepages=1 or dynamically through sysfs.  If enabled
dynamically, only new mappings are restricted.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <address@hidden>
---

As suggested by Konrad.  This is cleaner to add as a follow-on

  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c |   11 +++++++++++
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index 6654a7e..8a2be4e 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ module_param_named(allow_unsafe_interrupts,
  MODULE_PARM_DESC(allow_unsafe_interrupts,
                 "Enable VFIO IOMMU support for on platforms without interrupt 
remapping support.");
+static bool disable_hugepages;
+module_param_named(disable_hugepages,
+                  disable_hugepages, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_hugepages,
+                "Disable VFIO IOMMU support for IOMMU hugepages.");
+
  struct vfio_iommu {
        struct iommu_domain     *domain;
        struct mutex            lock;
@@ -270,6 +276,11 @@ static long vfio_pin_pages(unsigned long vaddr, long npage,
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
+ if (unlikely(disable_hugepages)) {
+               vfio_lock_acct(1);
+               return 1;
+       }
+
        /* Lock all the consecutive pages from pfn_base */
        for (i = 1, vaddr += PAGE_SIZE; i < npage; i++, vaddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
                unsigned long pfn = 0;

.


Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <address@hidden>

I was able to verify your changes on a 2 Sandybridge-EP socket platform and observed about ~7-8% improvement in the netperf's TCP_RR performance. The guest size was small (16vcpu/32GB).

Hopefully these changes also have an indirect benefit of avoiding soft lockups on the host side when larger guests (> 256GB ) are rebooted. Someone who has ready access to a larger Sandybridge-EP/EX platform can verify this.

FYI
Vinod




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