SMMU3.2 brings the support of range-based TLB invalidation and level hint. When this feature is supported, the SMMUv3 driver is allowed to send TLB invalidations for a range of IOVAs instead of using page based invalidation.
Implementing this feature in the virtual SMMUv3 device is mandated for DPDK on guest use case: DPDK uses hugepage buffers and guest sends invalidations for blocks. Without this feature, a guest invalidation of a block of 1GB for instance translates into a storm of page invalidations. Each of them is trapped by the VMM and cascaded downto the physical IOMMU. This completely stalls the execution. This integration issue was initially reported in [1]. Now SMMUv3.2 specifies additional parameters to NH_VA and NH_VAA stage 1 invalidation commands so we can support those extensions. patches [1, 5] are cleanup patches. patches [6] changes the implementation of the VSMMUV3 IOTLB This IOTLB is a minimalist IOTLB implementation that avoids to do the page table walk in case we have an entry in the TLB. Previously entries were page mappings only. Now they can be blocks. patches [7, 9] bring support for range invalidation. Supporting block mappings in the IOTLB look sensible in terms of TLB entry consumption. However looking at virtio/vhost device usage, without block mapping and without range invalidation (< 5.7 kernels it may be less performant. However for recent guest kernels supporting range invalidations [2], the performance should be similar. Best Regards Eric This series can be found at: https://github.com/eauger/qemu.git branch: v5.0.0-smmuv3-ril-v2 References: [1] [RFC v2 4/4] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add CMD_TLBI_NH_VA_AM command for iova range invalidation (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-August/023679.html [2] 5.7+ kernels featuring 6a481a95d4c1 iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add SMMUv3.2 range invalidation support History: v1 -> v2: - added "hw/arm/smmu: Introduce smmu_get_iotlb_key()" - removed "[PATCH 5/9] hw/arm/smmuv3: Store the starting level in SMMUTransTableInfo" - Collected Peter's R-b - In this version the key still features TG/LVL. - More details in individual history logs Eric Auger (9): hw/arm/smmu-common: Factorize some code in smmu_ptw_64() hw/arm/smmu-common: Add IOTLB helpers hw/arm/smmu: Introduce smmu_get_iotlb_key() hw/arm/smmu: Simplify the IOTLB key format hw/arm/smmu: Introduce SMMUTLBEntry for PTW and IOTLB value hw/arm/smmu-common: Manage IOTLB block entries hw/arm/smmuv3: Introduce smmuv3_s1_range_inval() helper hw/arm/smmuv3: Get prepared for range invalidation hw/arm/smmuv3: Advertise SMMUv3.2 range invalidation hw/arm/smmu-internal.h | 13 +++ hw/arm/smmuv3-internal.h | 5 + include/hw/arm/smmu-common.h | 21 ++-- hw/arm/smmu-common.c | 200 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ hw/arm/smmuv3.c | 134 ++++++++++++----------- hw/arm/trace-events | 10 +- 6 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-) -- 2.21.3