Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Optimize partial walk flush for large scatter-gather list

[Sai Prakash Ranjan]

Hi Robin,

On 2021-06-15 19:23, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-06-15 12:51, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:

<snip>...

> > Hi @Robin, from these discussions it seems they are not ok with the 
> > change
> > for all SoC vendor implementations and do not have any data on such 
> > impact.
> > As I mentioned above, on QCOM platforms we do have several 
> > optimizations in HW
> > for TLBIs and would like to make use of it and reduce the unmap 
> > latency.
> > What do you think, should this be made implementation specific?
>
> Yes, it sounds like there's enough uncertainty for now that this needs
> to be an opt-in feature. However, I still think that non-strict mode
> could use it generically, since that's all about over-invalidating to
> save time on individual unmaps - and relatively non-deterministic -
> already.
>
> So maybe we have a second set of iommu_flush_ops, or just a flag
> somewhere to control the tlb_flush_walk functions internally, and the
> choice can be made in the iommu_get_dma_strict() test, but also forced
> on all the time by your init_context hook. What do you reckon?

Sounds good to me. Since you mentioned non-strict mode using it 
generically,
can't we just set tlb_flush_all() in io_pgtable_tlb_flush_walk() like 
below
based on quirk so that we don't need to add any check in 
iommu_get_dma_strict()
and just force the new flush_ops in init_context hook?

if (iop->cfg.quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NON_STRICT) {
        iop->cfg.tlb->tlb_flush_all(iop->cookie);
        return;
}

Thanks,
Sai

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