Re: [PATCH v2 17/20] vfio/common: Support device dirty page tracking with vIOMMU

[Joao Martins]

On 24/02/2023 11:25, Joao Martins wrote:
> On 23/02/2023 23:26, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 03:33:09PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:55:54 -0400
>>> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 01:06:33PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>> Or even better figure out how to get interrupt remapping without IOMMU
>>>> support :\
>>>
>>> -machine q35,default_bus_bypass_iommu=on,kernel-irqchip=split \
>>> -device intel-iommu,caching-mode=on,intremap=on
>>
>> Joao?
>>
>> If this works lets just block migration if the vIOMMU is turned on..
> 
> At a first glance, this looked like my regular iommu incantation.
> 
> But reading the code this ::bypass_iommu (new to me) apparently tells that
> vIOMMU is bypassed or not for the PCI devices all the way to avoiding
> enumerating in the IVRS/DMAR ACPI tables. And I see VFIO double-checks whether
> PCI device is within the IOMMU address space (or bypassed) prior to DMA maps 
> and
> such.
> 
> You can see from the other email that all of the other options in my head were
> either bit inconvenient or risky. I wasn't aware of this option for what is
> worth -- much simpler, should work!
>

I say *should*, but on a second thought interrupt remapping may still be
required to one of these devices that are IOMMU-bypassed. Say to put affinities
to vcpus above 255? I was trying this out with more than 255 vcpus with a couple
VFs and at a first glance these VFs fail to probe (these are CX6 VFs).

It is a working setup without the parameter, but now adding a
default_bus_bypass_iommu=on fails to init VFs:

[   32.412733] mlx5_core 0000:00:02.0: Rate limit: 127 rates are supported,
range: 0Mbps to 97656Mbps
[   32.416242] mlx5_core 0000:00:02.0: mlx5_load:1204:(pid 3361): Failed to
alloc IRQs
[   33.227852] mlx5_core 0000:00:02.0: probe_one:1684:(pid 3361): mlx5_init_one
failed with error code -19
[   33.242182] mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: firmware version: 22.31.1660
[   33.415876] mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: Rate limit: 127 rates are supported,
range: 0Mbps to 97656Mbps
[   33.448016] mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_load:1204:(pid 3361): Failed to
alloc IRQs
[   34.207532] mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: probe_one:1684:(pid 3361): mlx5_init_one
failed with error code -19

I haven't dived yet into why it fails.

> And avoiding vIOMMU simplifies the whole patchset too, if it's OK to add a 
> live
> migration blocker if `bypass_iommu` is off for any PCI device.
> 

Still we could have for starters a live migration blocker until we revisit the
vIOMMU case ... should we deem that the default_bus_bypass_iommu=on or the
others I suggested as non-options?