Re: [RFC PATCH 15/18] cgroup: Introduce ioasids controller

Jean-Philippe Brucker
2021-03-04T09:51:42Z

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:02:05PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:17:26 -0800, Jacob Pan
> <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tejun,
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:44:28 -0500, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > > > IOASIDs are used to associate DMA requests with virtual address
> > > > spaces. They are a system-wide limited resource made available to the
> > > > userspace applications. Let it be VMs or user-space device drivers.
> > > >
> > > > This RFC patch introduces a cgroup controller to address the following
> > > > problems:
> > > > 1. Some user applications exhaust all the available IOASIDs thus
> > > > depriving others of the same host.
> > > > 2. System admins need to provision VMs based on their needs for
> > > > IOASIDs, e.g. the number of VMs with assigned devices that perform
> > > > DMA requests with PASID.
> > >
> > > Please take a look at the proposed misc controller:
> > >
> > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302081705.1990283-2-vipinsh@google.com
> > >
> > > Would that fit your bill?
> > The interface definitely can be reused. But IOASID has a different
> > behavior in terms of migration and ownership checking. I guess SEV key
> > IDs are not tied to a process whereas IOASIDs are. Perhaps this can be
> > solved by adding
> > + .can_attach = ioasids_can_attach,
> > + .cancel_attach = ioasids_cancel_attach,
> > Let me give it a try and come back.
> >
> While I am trying to fit the IOASIDs cgroup in to the misc cgroup proposal.
> I'd like to have a direction check on whether this idea of using cgroup for
> IOASID/PASID resource management is viable.

Yes, even for host SVA it would be good to have a cgroup. Currently the
number of shared address spaces is naturally limited by number of
processes, which can be controlled with rlimit and cgroup. But on Arm the
hardware limit on shared address spaces is 64k (number of ASIDs), easily
exhausted with the default PASID and PID limits. So a cgroup for managing
this resource is more than welcome.

It looks like your current implementation is very dependent on
IOASID_SET_TYPE_MM? I'll need to do more reading about cgroup to see how
easily it can be adapted to host SVA which uses IOASID_SET_TYPE_NULL.

Thanks,
Jean