From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel 3/9] KVM: PPC: Use preregistered memory API to access TCE list
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:42:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310234206.GC22546@voom.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310083305.GB1230@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:33:05PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 05:00:14PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:41:11PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > > VFIO on sPAPR already implements guest memory pre-registration
> > > when the entire guest RAM gets pinned. This can be used to translate
> > > the physical address of a guest page containing the TCE list
> > > from H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT.
> > >
> > > This makes use of the pre-registrered memory API to access TCE list
> > > pages in order to avoid unnecessary locking on the KVM memory
> > > reverse map.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> >
> > Ok.. so, what's the benefit of not having to lock the rmap?
>
> It's not primarily about locking or not locking the rmap. The point
> is that when memory is pre-registered, we know that all of guest
> memory is pinned and we have a flat array mapping GPA to HPA. It's
> simpler and quicker to index into that array (even with looking up the
> kernel page tables in vmalloc_to_phys) than it is to find the memslot,
> lock the rmap entry, look up the user page tables, and unlock the rmap
> entry. We were only locking the rmap entry to stop the page being
> unmapped and reallocated to something else, but if memory is
> pre-registered, it's all pinned, so it can't be reallocated.
Ok, that makes sense.
Alexey, can you fold some of that rationale into the commit message?
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-07 3:41 [PATCH kernel 0/9] KVM, PPC, VFIO: Enable in-kernel acceleration Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 1/9] KVM: PPC: Reserve KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO capability number Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 4:58 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 2/9] powerpc/mmu: Add real mode support for IOMMU preregistered memory Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 5:30 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 3/9] KVM: PPC: Use preregistered memory API to access TCE list Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 6:00 ` David Gibson
2016-03-08 5:47 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-08 6:30 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 8:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-09 23:46 ` David Gibson
2016-03-10 8:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-03-10 23:42 ` David Gibson [this message]
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 4/9] powerpc/powernv/iommu: Add real mode version of xchg() Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 6:05 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 7:32 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-08 4:50 ` David Gibson
2016-03-10 8:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-03-10 8:46 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 5/9] KVM: PPC: Enable IOMMU_API for KVM_BOOK3S_64 permanently Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 6/9] KVM: PPC: Associate IOMMU group with guest view of TCE table Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-07 6:25 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 9:38 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-08 4:55 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 7/9] KVM: PPC: Create a virtual-mode only TCE table handlers Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-08 6:32 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 8/9] KVM: PPC: Add in-kernel handling for VFIO Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-08 11:08 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 8:46 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:18 ` David Gibson
2016-03-11 2:15 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-15 6:00 ` David Gibson
2016-03-07 3:41 ` [PATCH kernel 9/9] KVM: PPC: VFIO device: support SPAPR TCE Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-09 5:45 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 9:20 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:21 ` David Gibson
2016-03-10 23:09 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-15 6:04 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <15389a41428.27cb.1ca38dd7e845b990cd13d431eb58563d@ozlabs.ru>
[not found] ` <20160321051932.GJ23586@voom.redhat.com>
2016-03-22 0:34 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-23 3:03 ` David Gibson
2016-06-09 6:47 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-06-10 6:50 ` David Gibson
2016-06-14 3:30 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-06-15 4:43 ` David Gibson
2016-04-08 9:13 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-04-11 3:36 ` David Gibson
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