Re: [RFC RESEND 00/16] Split IOMMU DMA mapping operation to two steps

Zhu Yanjun
2024-04-09T20:39:09Z

在 2024/3/7 7:01, Zhu Yanjun 写道:
> 在 2024/3/5 12:18, Leon Romanovsky 写道:
>> This is complimentary part to the proposed LSF/MM topic.
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/22df55f8-cf64-4aa8-8c0b-b556c867b926@linux.dev/T/#m85672c860539fdbbc8fe0f5ccabdc05b40269057
>
> I am interested in this topic. Hope I can join the meeting to discuss
> this topic.
>

With the same idea, in the IDPF driver, the function dma_alloc_coherent
which is called in the IDPF driver can be devided into the following 2
functions:

iommu_dma_alloc_pages

and

iommu_dma_map_page

So the function iommu_dma_alloc_pages allocates pages,
iommu_dma_map_page makes mapping between pages and IOVA.

Now the above idea is implemented in the NIC driver. Currently it can
work well.

Next the above idea will be implemented in the block device. Hope this
can increase the performance of the block device.

Best Regards,
Zhu Yanjun

> Zhu Yanjun
>
>>
>> This is posted as RFC to get a feedback on proposed split, but RDMA,
>> VFIO and
>> DMA patches are ready for review and inclusion, the NVMe patches are
>> still in
>> progress as they require agreement on API first.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The DMA mapping operation performs two steps at one same time: allocates
>> IOVA space and actually maps DMA pages to that space. This one shot
>> operation works perfectly for non-complex scenarios, where callers use
>> that DMA API in control path when they setup hardware.
>>
>> However in more complex scenarios, when DMA mapping is needed in data
>> path and especially when some sort of specific datatype is involved,
>> such one shot approach has its drawbacks.
>>
>> That approach pushes developers to introduce new DMA APIs for specific
>> datatype. For example existing scatter-gather mapping functions, or
>> latest Chuck's RFC series to add biovec related DMA mapping [1] and
>> probably struct folio will need it too.
>>
>> These advanced DMA mapping APIs are needed to calculate IOVA size to
>> allocate it as one chunk and some sort of offset calculations to know
>> which part of IOVA to map.
>>
>> Instead of teaching DMA to know these specific datatypes, let's separate
>> existing DMA mapping routine to two steps and give an option to advanced
>> callers (subsystems) perform all calculations internally in advance and
>> map pages later when it is needed.
>>
>> In this series, three users are converted and each of such conversion
>> presents different positive gain:
>> 1. RDMA simplifies and speeds up its pagefault handling for
>>     on-demand-paging (ODP) mode.
>> 2. VFIO PCI live migration code saves huge chunk of memory.
>> 3. NVMe PCI avoids intermediate SG table manipulation and operates
>>     directly on BIOs.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/169772852492.5232.17148564580779995849.stgit@klimt.1015granger.net
>>
>> Chaitanya Kulkarni (2):
>>    block: add dma_link_range() based API
>>    nvme-pci: use blk_rq_dma_map() for NVMe SGL
>>
>> Leon Romanovsky (14):
>>    mm/hmm: let users to tag specific PFNs
>>    dma-mapping: provide an interface to allocate IOVA
>>    dma-mapping: provide callbacks to link/unlink pages to specific IOVA
>>    iommu/dma: Provide an interface to allow preallocate IOVA
>>    iommu/dma: Prepare map/unmap page functions to receive IOVA
>>    iommu/dma: Implement link/unlink page callbacks
>>    RDMA/umem: Preallocate and cache IOVA for UMEM ODP
>>    RDMA/umem: Store ODP access mask information in PFN
>>    RDMA/core: Separate DMA mapping to caching IOVA and page linkage
>>    RDMA/umem: Prevent UMEM ODP creation with SWIOTLB
>>    vfio/mlx5: Explicitly use number of pages instead of allocated length
>>    vfio/mlx5: Rewrite create mkey flow to allow better code reuse
>>    vfio/mlx5: Explicitly store page list
>>    vfio/mlx5: Convert vfio to use DMA link API
>>
>>   Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst |   7 +
>>   block/blk-merge.c                         | 156 ++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c        | 219 +++++++------------
>>   drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h      |   1 +
>>   drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c          |  59 +++--
>>   drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c                 | 129 ++++++++---
>>   drivers/nvme/host/pci.c                   | 220 +++++--------------
>>   drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/cmd.c               | 252 ++++++++++++----------
>>   drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/cmd.h               |  22 +-
>>   drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/main.c              | 136 +++++-------
>>   include/linux/blk-mq.h                    |   9 +
>>   include/linux/dma-map-ops.h               |  13 ++
>>   include/linux/dma-mapping.h               |  39 ++++
>>   include/linux/hmm.h                       |   3 +
>>   include/rdma/ib_umem_odp.h                |  22 +-
>>   include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                   |  54 +++++
>>   kernel/dma/debug.h                        |   2 +
>>   kernel/dma/direct.h                       |   7 +-
>>   kernel/dma/mapping.c                      |  91 ++++++++
>>   mm/hmm.c                                  |  34 +--
>>   20 files changed, 870 insertions(+), 605 deletions(-)
>>
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