[PATCH RFC 0/4] vdpa: decouple reset of iotlb mapping from device reset

From: Si-Wei Liu
Date: Mon Aug 14 2023 - 21:46:31 EST


In order to reduce needlessly high setup and teardown cost
of iotlb mapping during live migration, it's crucial to
decouple the vhost-vdpa iotlb abstraction from the virtio
device life cycle, i.e. iotlb mappings should be left
intact across virtio device reset [1]. For it to work, the
on-chip IOMMU parent device should implement a separate
.reset_map() operation callback to restore 1:1 DMA mapping
without having to resort to the .reset() callback, which
is mainly used to reset virtio specific device state.
This new .reset_map() callback will be invoked only when
the vhost-vdpa driver is to be removed and detached from
the vdpa bus, such that other vdpa bus drivers, e.g.
virtio-vdpa, can get back on 1:1 DMA mapping when they
are attached. For the context, those on-chip IOMMU parent
devices, create the 1:1 DMA mapping at vdpa device add,
and they would implicitly destroy the 1:1 mapping when
the first .set_map or .dma_map callback is invoked.

[1] Reducing vdpa migration downtime because of memory pin / maps
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg953755.html

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Si-Wei Liu (4):
vdpa: introduce .reset_map operation callback
vdpa/mlx5: implement .reset_map driver op
vhost-vdpa: should restore 1:1 dma mapping before detaching driver
vhost-vdpa: introduce IOTLB_PERSIST backend feature bit

drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 18 +++++++---
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 7 ++++
include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 ++
6 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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