Re: [PATCH v13 4/6] iommu/s390: Disable deferred flush for ISM devices

Matthew Rosato
2023-09-29T12:57:46Z

On 9/28/23 10:31 AM, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> ISM devices are virtual PCI devices used for cross-LPAR communication.
> Unlike real PCI devices ISM devices do not use the hardware IOMMU but
> inspects IOMMU translation tables directly on IOTLB flush (s390 RPCIT
> instruction).
>
> ISM devices keep their DMA allocations static and only very rarely DMA
> unmap at all. For each IOTLB flush that occurs after unmap the ISM
> devices will however inspect the area of the IOVA space indicated by the
> flush. This means that for the global IOTLB flushes used by the flush
> queue mechanism the entire IOVA space would be inspected. In principle
> this would be fine, albeit potentially unnecessarily slow, it turns out
> however that ISM devices are sensitive to seeing IOVA addresses that are
> currently in use in the IOVA range being flushed. Seeing such in-use
> IOVA addresses will cause the ISM device to enter an error state and
> become unusable.
>
> Fix this by claiming IOMMU_CAP_DEFERRED_FLUSH only for non-ISM devices.
> This makes sure IOTLB flushes only cover IOVAs that have been unmapped
> and also restricts the range of the IOTLB flush potentially reducing
> latency spikes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>

Looks like my review tag from v12 got dropped on accident -- no changes since prior version and still looks good to me so

Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>