Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] iommu/vt-d: Add helper to flush caches for context change

[Jacob Pan]

On Mon,  1 Jul 2024 19:23:16 +0800, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> +	if (flush_domains) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If the IOMMU is running in scalable mode and there
> might
> +		 * be potential PASID translations, the caller should
> hold
> +		 * the lock to ensure that context changes and cache
> flushes
> +		 * are atomic.
> +		 */
> +		assert_spin_locked(&iommu->lock);
> +		for (i = 0; i < info->pasid_table->max_pasid; i++) {
> +			pte = intel_pasid_get_entry(info->dev, i);
> +			if (!pte || !pasid_pte_is_present(pte))
> +				continue;
Is it worth going through 1M PASIDs just to skip the PASID cache
invalidation? Or just do the flush on all used DIDs unconditionally.

> +			did = pasid_get_domain_id(pte);
> +			qi_flush_pasid_cache(iommu, did,
> QI_PC_ALL_PASIDS, 0);
> +			iommu->flush.flush_iotlb(iommu, did, 0, 0,
> DMA_TLB_DSI_FLUSH);
> +		}
> +	}

Thanks,

Jacob