Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] spec/vhost-user spec: Add IOMMU support

[Jason Wang]

On 2017年05月16日 23:16, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 01:45:28PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On 2017年05月13日 08:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > > > On 05/11/2017 08:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > > > > > This patch specifies and implements the master/slave communication
> > > > > > to support device IOTLB in slave.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The vhost_iotlb_msg structure introduced for kernel backends is
> > > > > > re-used, making the design close between the two backends.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > An exception is the use of the secondary channel to enable the
> > > > > > slave to send IOTLB miss requests to the master.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <address@hidden>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >     docs/specs/vhost-user.txt | 75 
> > > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > >     hw/virtio/vhost-user.c    | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > >     2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > diff --git a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
> > > > > > index 5fa7016..4a1f0c3 100644
> > > > > > --- a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
> > > > > > +++ b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
> > > > > > @@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ Depending on the request type, payload can be:
> > > > > >        log offset: offset from start of supplied file descriptor
> > > > > >            where logging starts (i.e. where guest address 0 would be logged)
> > > > > > + * An IOTLB message
> > > > > > +   ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > +   | iova | size | user address | permissions flags | type |
> > > > > > +   ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +   IOVA: a 64-bit guest I/O virtual address
> > > > > guest -> VM
> > > > Ok.
> > > >
> > > > > > +   Size: a 64-bit size
> > > > > How do you specify "all memory"? give special meaning to size 0?
> > > > Good point, it does not support all memory currently.
> > > > It is not vhost-user specific, but general to the vhost implementation.
> > > But iommu needs it to support passthrough.
> > Probably not, we will just pass the mappings in vhost_memory_region to
> > vhost. Its memory_size is also a __u64.
> >
> > Thanks
> That's different since that's chunks of qemu virtual memory.
>
> IOMMU maps IOVA to GPA.

But we're in fact cache IOVA -> HVA mapping in the remote IOTLB. When 
passthrough mode is enabled, IOVA == GPA, so passing mappings in 
vhost_memory_region should be fine.

The only possible "issue" with "all memory" is if you can not use a 
single TLB invalidation to invalidate all caches in remote TLB. But this 
is only theoretical problem since it only happen when we have a 1 byte 
mapping [2^64 - 1, 2^64) cached in remote TLB. Consider:

- E.g intel IOMMU has a range limitation for invalidation (1G currently)
- Looks like all existed IOMMU use page aligned mappings

It was probably not a big issue. And for safety we could use two 
invalidations to make sure all caches were flushed remotely. Or just 
change the protocol from start, size to start, end. Vhost-kernel is 
probably too late for this change, but I'm still not quite sure it is 
worthwhile.

Thanks