Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] iommu/vt-d: Remove identity mappings from si_domain

[Baolu Lu]

On 2024/8/7 1:05, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:39:36AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > As the driver has enforced DMA domains for devices managed by an IOMMU
> > hardware that doesn't support passthrough translation mode, there is no
> > need for static identity mappings in the si_domain. Remove the identity
> > mapping code to avoid dead code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu<baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 122 ++----------------------------------
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe<jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I always wondered why this was so fine grained, I would have expected
> it to work on blocks of 512 x 1G, once you allocate a memory for the
> 1G table level you may as well fill it with identity IOPTEs. The only
> optimization point is how many blocks of 512x1G are needed..

I am not sure whether or not those early hardware support super pages.
 :-).

Thanks,
baolu