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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entr
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry |
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Mon, 12 Jun 2017 06:07:04 +0300 |
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:34:43AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 08:10:15PM +0800, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 01:09:26PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:58:47AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > > > > The problem is that when I was fixing the problem that vhost had
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > PT (a764040, "exec: abstract address_space_do_translate()"), I did
> > > > > > broke the IOTLB translation a bit (it was using page masks). IMHO we
> > > > > > need to fix it first for correctness (patch 1/2).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For patch 3, if we can have Jason's patch to allow dynamic
> > > > > > iommu_platform switching, that'll be the best, then I can rewrite
> > > > > > patch 3 with the switching logic rather than caching anything. But
> > > > > > IMHO that can be separated from patch 1/2 if you like.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Or do you have better suggestion on how should we fix it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we drop masks completely and replace with length? I think we
> > > > > should do that instead of trying to fix masks.
> > > >
> > > > Do you mean to modify IOMMUTLBEntry.addr_mask into length?
> > >
> > > I think it's better than alternatives.
> > >
> > > > Again, I am not sure this is good... At least we need to get ack from
> > > > David since spapr should be the initial user of it, and possibly also
> > > > Alex since vfio should be assuming that (IIUC both in QEMU and kernel)
> > > > addr_mask is page masks rather than arbirary length.
> > > >
> > > > (CC Alex)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Callbacks that need powers of two can easily split up the range.
> >
> > I think I missed part of the thread. What's the original use case for
> > non-power-of-two IOTLB entries? It certainly won't happen on Power.
>
> Currently address_space_get_iotlb_entry() didn't really follow the
> rule, addr_mask can be arbitary length. This series tried to fix it,
> while Michael was questioning about whether we should really fix that
> at all.
>
> Michael,
>
> Even if for performance's sake, I should still think we should fix it.
> Let's consider a most simple worst case: we have a single page mapped
> with IOVA range (2M page):
>
> [0x0, 0x200000)
>
> And if guest access IOVA using the following patern:
>
> 0x1fffff, 0x1ffffe, 0x1ffffd, ...
>
> Then now we'll get this:
>
> - request 0x1fffff, cache miss, will get iotlb [0x1fffff, 0x200000)
> - request 0x1ffffe, cache miss, will get iotlb [0x1ffffe, 0x200000)
> - request 0x1ffffd, cache miss, will get iotlb [0x1ffffd, 0x200000)
> - ...
We pass an offset too, do we not? So callee can figure out
the region starts at 0x0 and avoid 2nd and 3rd misses.
> We'll all cache miss along the way until we access 0x0. While if we
> are with page mask, we'll get:
>
> - request 0x1fffff, cache miss, will get iotlb [0x0, 0x200000)
> - request 0x1ffffe, cache hit
> - request 0x1ffffd, cache hit
> - ...
>
> We'll only miss at the first IO.
I think we should send as much info as we can.
There should be a way to find full region start and length.
> --
> Peter Xu
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, David Gibson, 2017/06/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, David Gibson, 2017/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, David Gibson, 2017/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Peter Xu, 2017/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] exec: simplify address_space_get_iotlb_entry, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/06/07
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] vhost: iommu: cache static mapping if there is, Peter Xu, 2017/06/02