Userspace needs this feature flag to distinguish if vhost-vdpa
iotlb in the kernel supports persistent IOTLB mapping across
device reset. There are two cases that backend may claim
this feature bit on:
- parent device that has to work with platform IOMMU
- parent device with on-chip IOMMU that has
Today, mlx5_vdpa gets started by preallocate 1:1 DMA mapping at
device creation time, while this 1:1 mapping will be implicitly
destroyed when the first .set_map call is invoked. Everytime
when the .reset callback is invoked, any mapping left behind will
be dropped then reset back to the initial 1:
Devices with on-chip IOMMU may need to restore iotlb to 1:1 identity
mapping from IOVA to PA. Before vhost-vdpa is going away, give them
a chance to clean up and reset iotlb back to 1:1 identify mapping
mode. This is done so that any vdpa bus driver may start with 1:1
identity mapping by default.
On-chip IOMMU parent driver could use it to restore memory mapping
to the initial state.
Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu
---
include/linux/vdpa.h | 7 +++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
index 17a4efa..daecf55 100644
--- a/include/linux/vdp
In order to reduce needlessly high setup and teardown cost
of iotlb mapping during live migration, it's crucial to
decouple the vhost-vdpa iotlb abstraction from the virtio
device life cycle, i.e. iotlb mappings should be left
intact across virtio device reset [1]. For it to work, the
on-chip IOMMU
Userspace needs this feature flag to distinguish if vhost-vdpa
iotlb in the kernel supports persistent IOTLB mapping across
device reset. There are two cases that backend may claim
this feature bit on:
- parent device that has to work with platform IOMMU
- parent device with on-chip IOMMU that has
On-chip IOMMU parent driver could use it to restore memory mapping
to the initial state.
Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu
---
include/linux/vdpa.h | 7 +++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
index 17a4efa..daecf55 100644
--- a/include/linux/vdp
In order to reduce needlessly high setup and teardown cost
of iotlb mapping during live migration, it's crucial to
decouple the vhost-vdpa iotlb abstraction from the virtio
device life cycle, i.e. iotlb mappings should be left
intact across virtio device reset [1]. For it to work, the
on-chip IOMMU
Today, mlx5_vdpa gets started by preallocate 1:1 DMA mapping at
device creation time, while this 1:1 mapping will be implicitly
destroyed when the first .set_map call is invoked. Everytime
when the .reset callback is invoked, any mapping left behind will
be dropped then reset back to the initial 1:
Devices with on-chip IOMMU may need to restore iotlb to 1:1 identity
mapping from IOVA to PA. Before vhost-vdpa is going away, give them
a chance to clean up and reset iotlb back to 1:1 identify mapping
mode. This is done so that any vdpa bus driver may start with 1:1
identity mapping by default.
With _F_DESC_ASID backend feature, the device can now support the
VHOST_VDPA_GET_VRING_DESC_GROUP ioctl, and it may expose the descriptor
table (including avail and used ring) in a different group than the
buffers it contains. This new uAPI will fetch the group ID of the
descriptor table.
Signed-o
Following patchset introduces dedicated group for descriptor table to
reduce live migration downtime when passthrough VQ is being switched
to shadow VQ. This RFC v2 is sent to incorporate the early feedback
from reviewers on the uAPI and driver API part of changes, the
associated driver patch set c
Userspace knows if the device has dedicated descriptor group or not
by checking this feature bit.
It's only exposed if the vdpa driver backend implements the
.get_vq_desc_group() operation callback. Userspace trying to negotiate
this feature when it or the dependent _F_IOTLB_ASID feature hasn't
be
In some cases, the access to the virtqueue's descriptor area, device
and driver areas (precluding indirect descriptor table in guest memory)
may have to be confined to a different address space than where its
buffers reside. Without loss of simplicity and generality with already
established termino
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