Re: [PATCH v2] vhost/vdpa: Add MSI translation tables to iommu for software-managed MSI

[Jason Wang]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 8:43 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 05:12:29AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 08:14:50PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 08:08:43PM +0800, Nanyong Sun wrote:
> > > > From: Rong Wang <wangrong68@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Once enable iommu domain for one device, the MSI
> > > > translation tables have to be there for software-managed MSI.
> > > > Otherwise, platform with software-managed MSI without an
> > > > irq bypass function, can not get a correct memory write event
> > > > from pcie, will not get irqs.
> > > > The solution is to obtain the MSI phy base address from
> > > > iommu reserved region, and set it to iommu MSI cookie,
> > > > then translation tables will be created while request irq.
> > >
> > > Probably not what anyone wants to hear, but I would prefer we not add
> > > more uses of this stuff. It looks like we have to get rid of
> > > iommu_get_msi_cookie() :\
> > >
> > > I'd like it if vdpa could move to iommufd not keep copying stuff from
> > > it..
> >
> > Absolutely but when is that happening?
>
> Don't know, I think it has to come from the VDPA maintainers, Nicolin
> made some drafts but wasn't able to get it beyond that.

Cindy (cced) will carry on the work.

Thanks

>
> Please have people who need more iommu platform enablement to pick it
> up instead of merging hacks like this..
>
> We are very close to having nested translation on ARM so anyone who is
> serious about VDPA on ARM is going to need iommufd anyhow.
>
> Jason
>