On 2016年05月24日 17:36, Jason Wang wrote:
This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could be
used with for co-operation with userspace IOMMU implementation (qemu)
for a secure DMA environment (DMAR) in guest.

The idea is simple. When vhost meets an IOTLB miss, it will request
the assistance of userspace to do the translation, this is done
through:

- when there's a IOTLB miss, it will notify userspace through
   vhost_net fd and then userspace read the fault address, size and
   access from vhost fd.
- userspace write the translation result back to vhost fd, vhost can
   then update its IOTLB.

The codes were optimized for fixed mapping users e.g dpdk in guest. It
will be slow if dynamic mappings were used in guest. We could do
optimizations on top.

The codes were designed to be architecture independent. It should be
easily ported to any architecture.

Stress tested with l2fwd/vfio in guest with 4K/2M/1G page size. On 1G
hugepage case, 100% TLB hit rate were noticed.

Changes from V2:
- introduce memory accessors for vhost
- switch from ioctls to oridinary file read/write for iotlb miss and
   updating
- do not assume virtqueue were virtually mapped contiguously, all
   virtqueue access were done throug IOTLB
- verify memory access during IOTLB update and fail early
- introduce a module parameter for the size of IOTLB

Changes from V1:
- support any size/range of updating and invalidation through
   introducing the interval tree.
- convert from per device iotlb request to per virtqueue iotlb
   request, this solves the possible deadlock in V1.
- read/write permission check support.

Please review.

Have a benchmark on this. Test was done with l2fwd in guest.

For 2MB page, no difference in 64B performance and I notice a 4%-5% drop for 1500B performance compare to UIO in guest. We can add some shortcut to bypass the IOTLB for virtqueue accessing, but I think it's better to be done on top.


Jason Wang (3):
   vhost: introduce vhost memory accessors
   vhost: convert pre sorted vhost memory array to interval tree
   vhost: device IOTLB API

  drivers/vhost/net.c        |  63 +++-
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c      | 760 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
  drivers/vhost/vhost.h      |  60 +++-
  include/uapi/linux/vhost.h |  28 ++
  4 files changed, 790 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)


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