Re: [PATCH 5/5] iommufd: Flush CPU caches on DMA pages in non-coherent domains

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 04:03:04PM +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > > @@ -1358,10 +1377,17 @@ int iopt_area_fill_domain(struct iopt_area *area, struct iommu_domain *domain)
> > >  {
> > >  	unsigned long done_end_index;
> > >  	struct pfn_reader pfns;
> > > +	bool cache_flush_required;
> > >  	int rc;
> > >  
> > >  	lockdep_assert_held(&area->pages->mutex);
> > >  
> > > +	cache_flush_required = area->iopt->noncoherent_domain_cnt &&
> > > +			       !area->pages->cache_flush_required;
> > > +
> > > +	if (cache_flush_required)
> > > +		area->pages->cache_flush_required = true;
> > > +
> > >  	rc = pfn_reader_first(&pfns, area->pages, iopt_area_index(area),
> > >  			      iopt_area_last_index(area));
> > >  	if (rc)
> > > @@ -1369,6 +1395,9 @@ int iopt_area_fill_domain(struct iopt_area *area, struct iommu_domain *domain)
> > >  
> > >  	while (!pfn_reader_done(&pfns)) {
> > >  		done_end_index = pfns.batch_start_index;
> > > +		if (cache_flush_required)
> > > +			iopt_cache_flush_pfn_batch(&pfns.batch);
> > > +
> > 
> > This is a bit unfortunate, it means we are going to flush for every
> > domain, even though it is not required. I don't see any easy way out
> > of that :(
> Yes. Do you think it's possible to add an op get_cache_coherency_enforced
> to iommu_domain_ops?

Do we need that? The hwpt already keeps track of that? the enforced could be
copied into the area along side storage_domain

Then I guess you could avoid flushing in the case the page came from
the storage_domain...

You'd want the storage_domain to preferentially point to any
non-enforced domain.

Is it worth it? How slow is this stuff?

Jason