Re: [PATCH 1/2] iommu/vt-d: Avoid unnecessary global IRTE cache invalidation

From: Jerry Snitselaar
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 04:29:30 EST


On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 02:25:22PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Some VT-d hardware implementations invalidate all interrupt remapping
> hardware translation caches as part of SIRTP flow. The VT-d spec adds
> a ESIRTPS (Enhanced Set Interrupt Remap Table Pointer Support, section
> 11.4.2 in VT-d spec) capability bit to indicate this. With this bit set,
> software has no need to issue the global invalidation request.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx

> ---
> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h | 1 +
> drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
> index eef1a166b855..5407d82df4d1 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.h
> @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
> /*
> * Decoding Capability Register
> */
> +#define cap_esirtps(c) (((c) >> 62) & 1)
> #define cap_fl5lp_support(c) (((c) >> 60) & 1)
> #define cap_pi_support(c) (((c) >> 59) & 1)
> #define cap_fl1gp_support(c) (((c) >> 56) & 1)
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c
> index 2e9683e970f8..b4a91fbd1c2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/irq_remapping.c
> @@ -494,7 +494,8 @@ static void iommu_set_irq_remapping(struct intel_iommu *iommu, int mode)
> * Global invalidation of interrupt entry cache to make sure the
> * hardware uses the new irq remapping table.
> */
> - qi_global_iec(iommu);
> + if (!cap_esirtps(iommu->cap))
> + qi_global_iec(iommu);
> }
>
> static void iommu_enable_irq_remapping(struct intel_iommu *iommu)
> --
> 2.34.1
>