From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-2.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.81]:32528 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729170AbgBTVdp (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:33:45 -0500 Received: by mail-qt1-f198.google.com with SMTP id t4so110359qtd.3 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:33:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:33:35 -0500 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] virtio: decouple protected guest RAM form VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM Message-ID: <20200220163055-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200220160606.53156-1-pasic@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200220160606.53156-1-pasic@linux.ibm.com> Sender: linux-s390-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Halil Pasic Cc: Jason Wang , Marek Szyprowski , Robin Murphy , Christoph Hellwig , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christian Borntraeger , Janosch Frank , Viktor Mihajlovski , Cornelia Huck , Ram Pai , Thiago Jung Bauermann , David Gibson , "Lendacky, Thomas" , Michael Mueller On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 05:06:04PM +0100, Halil Pasic wrote: > For vhost-net the feature VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM has the following side > effect The vhost code assumes it the addresses on the virtio descriptor > ring are not guest physical addresses but iova's, and insists on doing a > translation of these regardless of what transport is used (e.g. whether > we emulate a PCI or a CCW device). (For details see commit 6b1e6cc7855b > "vhost: new device IOTLB API".) On s390 this results in severe > performance degradation (c.a. factor 10). BTW with ccw I/O there is > (architecturally) no IOMMU, so the whole address translation makes no > sense in the context of virtio-ccw. So it sounds like a host issue: the emulation of s390 unnecessarily complicated. Working around it by the guest looks wrong ... > Halil Pasic (2): > mm: move force_dma_unencrypted() to mem_encrypt.h > virtio: let virtio use DMA API when guest RAM is protected > > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 +++ > include/linux/dma-direct.h | 9 --------- > include/linux/mem_encrypt.h | 10 ++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: ca7e1fd1026c5af6a533b4b5447e1d2f153e28f2 > -- > 2.17.1