Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu 0/3] spapr/iommu: Enable in-kernel TCE acceleration via VFIO KVM device

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:46:14PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:12:07 +1100
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/01/18 04:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > On 02/01/2018 06:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:  
> > >> This is my current queue of the in-kernel TCE acceleration
> > >> enablement.
> > >>
> > >> Changes since 
> > >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg01918.html :
> > >> * 3 patches instead of one, one per maintainership area;
> > >> * added memory_region_iommu_get_attr();
> > >> * removed set_attr() as there is no use for it now;
> > >> * folded the chunk in vfio_listener_region_add() under
> > >> VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_v2_IOMMU branch as the acceleration is only
> > >> enabled when DMA memory is preregistered and this is only supported
> > >> by the v2 IOMMU.
> > >>
> > >> This is based on sha1
> > >> ad59cde Cédric Le Goater "target/ppc: more use of the PPC_*() macros".
> > >>
> > >> Please comment. Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Alexey Kardashevskiy (3):
> > >>   memory/iommu: Add get_attr()
> > >>   vfio/spapr: Use iommu memory region's get_attr()
> > >>   spapr/iommu: Enable in-kernel TCE acceleration via VFIO KVM device
> > >>
> > >>  include/exec/memory.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>  target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h  |  6 ++++++
> > >>  hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c  | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >>  hw/vfio/common.c      | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>  memory.c              | 13 +++++++++++++
> > >>  target/ppc/kvm.c      |  7 ++++++-
> > >>  hw/vfio/trace-events  |  1 +
> > >>  7 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>  
> > > 
> > > Alex, if this is okay for you, please pick it up yourself.  
> > 
> > Alex, ping?
> 
> Yeah, I'll pick these up.  Paolo, do you want to throw an explicit Ack
> for the first patch?  David, R-b/A-b?  Thanks,

Sorry, I've been so buried in bugs that performance improvements just
haven't made my radar to look at.

From my first look these look workable, though somewhat uglier than
necessary.

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