[RFC] iommu/virtio: Use single flush queue (EXPERIMENTAL)

From: Niklas Schnelle
Date: Wed Jul 26 2023 - 07:15:07 EST


Just like on paged s390 guests with their virtual IOMMU, syncing
mappings via virtio-iommu is quite expensive. It can thus benefit from
queueing unmapped IOVAs and flushing them in batches but less so from
parallel flushes which is what the shadow_on_flush flag introduced for
s390 tunes dma-iommu to do.

For this to work .flush_iotlb_all is implemented. Furthermore
.iotlb_sync_map is also implemented and used to pull the sync out of the
mapping operation for some additional batching and performance gain.

In a basic test with NVMe pass-through to a KVM guest on a Ryzen 3900X
these changes together lead to about 19% more IOPS in a fio test and
slightly more bandwidth too.

Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note:
The idea of using the single flush queue scheme from my series "iommu/dma: s390
DMA API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing"[0] for virtio-iommu was already
mentioned in the cover letter. I now wanted to explore this with this patch
which may also serve as a test vehicle for the single flush queue scheme usable
on non-s390.

Besides limited testing, this is marked experimental mainly because the use of
queuing needs to be a concious decision as it allows continued access to
unmapped pages for up to a second with the currently proposed single flush
queue mechanism. Also it might make sense to split this patch to do the
introduction and use of .iotlb_sync_map separately but as a test vehicle
I found it easier to consume as a single patch.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230717-dma_iommu-v11-0-a7a0b83c355c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c
index 3551ed057774..f29eb4ce2b88 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static int viommu_map_pages(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned long iova,
.flags = cpu_to_le32(flags),
};

- ret = viommu_send_req_sync(vdomain->viommu, &map, sizeof(map));
+ ret = viommu_add_req(vdomain->viommu, &map, sizeof(map));
if (ret) {
viommu_del_mappings(vdomain, iova, end);
return ret;
@@ -909,6 +909,27 @@ static void viommu_iotlb_sync(struct iommu_domain *domain,
{
struct viommu_domain *vdomain = to_viommu_domain(domain);

+ if (!vdomain->nr_endpoints)
+ return;
+ viommu_sync_req(vdomain->viommu);
+}
+
+static int viommu_iotlb_sync_map(struct iommu_domain *domain,
+ unsigned long iova, size_t size)
+{
+ struct viommu_domain *vdomain = to_viommu_domain(domain);
+
+ if (!vdomain->nr_endpoints)
+ return 0;
+ return viommu_sync_req(vdomain->viommu);
+}
+
+static void viommu_flush_iotlb_all(struct iommu_domain *domain)
+{
+ struct viommu_domain *vdomain = to_viommu_domain(domain);
+
+ if (!vdomain->nr_endpoints)
+ return;
viommu_sync_req(vdomain->viommu);
}

@@ -991,6 +1012,7 @@ static struct iommu_device *viommu_probe_device(struct device *dev)
if (ret)
goto err_free_dev;
}
+ dev->iommu->shadow_on_flush = 1;

return &viommu->iommu;

@@ -1037,6 +1059,8 @@ static bool viommu_capable(struct device *dev, enum iommu_cap cap)
switch (cap) {
case IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY:
return true;
+ case IOMMU_CAP_DEFERRED_FLUSH:
+ return true;
default:
return false;
}
@@ -1057,7 +1081,9 @@ static struct iommu_ops viommu_ops = {
.map_pages = viommu_map_pages,
.unmap_pages = viommu_unmap_pages,
.iova_to_phys = viommu_iova_to_phys,
+ .flush_iotlb_all = viommu_flush_iotlb_all,
.iotlb_sync = viommu_iotlb_sync,
+ .iotlb_sync_map = viommu_iotlb_sync_map,
.free = viommu_domain_free,
}
};

base-commit: 5514392fe77cd45b0d33bf239f13ba594a6759e5
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2.39.2