RE: [PATCH 3/5] vfio/iommu_type1: Prefer to reuse domains vs match enforced cache coherency

Tian, Kevin
2022-06-08T23:48:52Z

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:17 PM
>
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 08:28:03AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > From: Nicolin Chen
> > > Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 2:19 PM
> > >
> > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> > >
> > > The KVM mechanism for controlling wbinvd is only triggered during
> > > kvm_vfio_group_add(), meaning it is a one-shot test done once the
> devices
> > > are setup.
> >
> > It's not one-shot. kvm_vfio_update_coherency() is called in both
> > group_add() and group_del(). Then the coherency property is
> > checked dynamically in wbinvd emulation:
>
> From the perspective of managing the domains that is still
> one-shot. It doesn't get updated when individual devices are
> added/removed to domains.

It's unchanged per-domain but dynamic per-vm when multiple
domains are added/removed (i.e. kvm->arch.noncoherent_dma_count).
It's the latter being checked in the kvm.

>
> > given that I'm fine with the change in this patch. Even more probably
> > we really want an explicit one-shot model so KVM can lock down
> > the property once it starts to consume it then further adding a new
> > group which would change the coherency is explicitly rejected and
> > removing an existing group leaves it intact.
>
> Why? Once wbinvd is enabled it is compatible with all domain
> configurations, so just leave it on and ignore everything at that
> point.
>

More than that. My point was to make it a static policy so even if
wbinvd is disabled in the start we want to leave it off and not affected
by adding a device which doesn't have coherency. 'wbinvd off' is not
a compatible configuration hence imo need a way to reject adding
incompatible device.

Thanks
Kevin