[PATCH RFCv1 07/14] iommufd: Add viommu set/unset_dev_id ops

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Wed May 22 22:44:40 PDT 2024


> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2024 12:39 PM
> 
> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 11:46:54AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 08:47:04PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > > Add a pair of ops to set and unet device's virtual ID that belongs to
> > > a viommu object. They will be used, in the following patch, by iommufd
> > > to support some HW-acceleration feature from the host level.
> > >
> > > For instance, every device behind an ARM SMMU has a Stream ID. The ID
> > > is used by ATC invalidation commands so SMMU HW can direct
> invalidation
> > > requests to the corresponding PCI device where the ID belongs to. In a
> > > virtualization use case, a passthroughed device in the VM will have a
> > > virtuail Stream ID, used by the ATC invalidation commands in the guest
> > > system. NVIDIA's CMDQV extension for SMMUv3 provides a v-interface
> to
> > > execute the guest-level ATC invalidation commands directly, yet needs
> > > the HW to be aware of its virtual Stream ID so it can replace with its
> > > physical Stream ID.
> >
> > I imagine using this as well for the ATC invalidation commands. It
> > would be very easy and simplifying if the command fixup just extracted
> > the vSID from the ATC invalidation and used an xarray to turn it into
> > a pSID and then pushed the resulting command.
> 
> You mean the nested SMMU series right? Actually the set_dev_id
> ioctl was a part of that until we wanted to try DEV_INVALIDATE.
> 
> So again, yes, it makes sense to me that we move viommu and the
> set_dev_id to the nested series, and then drop DEV_INVALIDATE.
> 

I'm right about to ask how the nesting series is going. Per earlier
discussion iirc the nesting series will go in before VCMDQ?



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