[PATCH v4 0/7] vdpa: decouple reset of iotlb mapping from device reset

From: Si-Wei Liu
Date: Sat Oct 21 2023 - 05:28:33 EST


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 parent device could implement a separate
.reset_map() operation callback to restore 1:1 DMA mapping
without having to resort to the .reset() callback, the
latter of which is mainly used to reset virtio device state.
This new .reset_map() callback will be invoked only before
the vhost-vdpa driver is to be removed and detached from
the vdpa bus, such that other vdpa bus drivers, e.g.
virtio-vdpa, can start with 1:1 DMA mapping when they
are attached. For the context, those on-chip IOMMU parent
devices, create the 1:1 DMA mapping at vdpa device creation,
and they would implicitly destroy the 1:1 mapping when
the first .set_map or .dma_map callback is invoked.

This patchset is rebased on top of the latest vhost tree.

[1] Reducing vdpa migration downtime because of memory pin / maps
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg953755.html

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v4:
- Rework compatibility using new .compat_reset driver op

v3:
- add .reset_map support to vdpa_sim
- introduce module parameter to provide bug-for-bug compatibility with older
userspace

v2:
- improved commit message to clarify the intended csope of .reset_map API
- improved commit messages to clarify no breakage on older userspace

v1:
- rewrote commit messages to include more detailed description and background
- reword to vendor specific IOMMU implementation from on-chip IOMMU
- include parent device backend feautres to persistent iotlb precondition
- reimplement mlx5_vdpa patch on top of descriptor group series

RFC v3:
- fix missing return due to merge error in patch #4

RFC v2:
- rebased on top of the "[PATCH RFC v2 0/3] vdpa: dedicated descriptor table group" series:
https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/1694248959-13369-1-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx/

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Si-Wei Liu (7):
vdpa: introduce .reset_map operation callback
vhost-vdpa: reset vendor specific mapping to initial state in .release
vhost-vdpa: introduce IOTLB_PERSIST backend feature bit
vdpa: introduce .compat_reset operation callback
vhost-vdpa: clean iotlb map during reset for older userspace
vdpa/mlx5: implement .reset_map driver op
vdpa_sim: implement .reset_map support

drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 17 ++++++++++
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 27 ++++++++++++++--
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 2 +-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 30 +++++++++++++++--
include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 ++
8 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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