[0/5] Share sva domains with all devices bound to a mm

Message ID 20230808074944.7825-1-tina.zhang@intel.com
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Zhang, Tina Aug. 8, 2023, 7:49 a.m. UTC
  A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.

To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
and sva domains.

This patch-set fills the gap by adding an mm_iommu field[1], whose type is
mm_iommu_data struct, to replace the old pasid field. The introduced
mm_iommu_data struct keeps info of both a reference list of sva domains
and an assigned PASID.


[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/ZIBxPd1%2FJCAle6yP@nvidia.com/


The RFC version of this patch-set is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230707013441.365583-1-tina.zhang@intel.com/

Tina Zhang (5):
  iommu: Add mm_get_pasid() helper function
  iommu: Call helper function to get assigned pasid value
  mm: Add structure to keep sva information
  iommu: Support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains
  mm: Deprecate pasid field

 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                       |  2 +-
 .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c   | 12 ++---
 drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c                     |  8 +--
 drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c                     | 50 ++++++++++++-------
 include/linux/iommu.h                         | 19 +++++--
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  3 +-
 kernel/fork.c                                 |  1 -
 mm/init-mm.c                                  |  3 --
 8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Baolu Lu Aug. 9, 2023, 12:18 a.m. UTC | #1
On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> 
> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
> and sva domains.

Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
space shared by mm to a device.

Best regards,
baolu

> 
> This patch-set fills the gap by adding an mm_iommu field[1], whose type is
> mm_iommu_data struct, to replace the old pasid field. The introduced
> mm_iommu_data struct keeps info of both a reference list of sva domains
> and an assigned PASID.
> 
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/ZIBxPd1%2FJCAle6yP@nvidia.com/
> 
> 
> The RFC version of this patch-set is here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230707013441.365583-1-tina.zhang@intel.com/
> 
> Tina Zhang (5):
>    iommu: Add mm_get_pasid() helper function
>    iommu: Call helper function to get assigned pasid value
>    mm: Add structure to keep sva information
>    iommu: Support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains
>    mm: Deprecate pasid field
> 
>   arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                       |  2 +-
>   .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c   | 12 ++---
>   drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c                     |  8 +--
>   drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c                     | 50 ++++++++++++-------
>   include/linux/iommu.h                         | 19 +++++--
>   include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  3 +-
>   kernel/fork.c                                 |  1 -
>   mm/init-mm.c                                  |  3 --
>   8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
  
Tian, Kevin Aug. 9, 2023, 9:41 a.m. UTC | #2
> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
> 
> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.

Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
this change?

> 
> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
> and sva domains.
> 
> This patch-set fills the gap by adding an mm_iommu field[1], whose type is
> mm_iommu_data struct, to replace the old pasid field. The introduced
> mm_iommu_data struct keeps info of both a reference list of sva domains
> and an assigned PASID.
> 
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/ZIBxPd1%2FJCAle6yP@nvidia.com/
> 
> 
> The RFC version of this patch-set is here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230707013441.365583-1-
> tina.zhang@intel.com/
> 
> Tina Zhang (5):
>   iommu: Add mm_get_pasid() helper function
>   iommu: Call helper function to get assigned pasid value
>   mm: Add structure to keep sva information
>   iommu: Support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains
>   mm: Deprecate pasid field
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                       |  2 +-
>  .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c   | 12 ++---
>  drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c                     |  8 +--
>  drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c                     | 50 ++++++++++++-------
>  include/linux/iommu.h                         | 19 +++++--
>  include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  3 +-
>  kernel/fork.c                                 |  1 -
>  mm/init-mm.c                                  |  3 --
>  8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.17.1
  
Tian, Kevin Aug. 9, 2023, 9:44 a.m. UTC | #3
> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 8:18 AM
> 
> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
> > A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> > by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> > there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> > the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> >
> > To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both
> a
> > reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
> > However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
> > which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
> > cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
> > and sva domains.
> 
> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
> space shared by mm to a device.
> 

iirc it's a simplification to free mm pasid at __mmdrop() otherwise the
implementation is tricky, but I don't remember all the detail...
  
Baolu Lu Aug. 9, 2023, 10:51 a.m. UTC | #4
On 2023/8/9 17:44, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Baolu Lu<baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 8:18 AM
>>
>> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
>>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
>>>
>>> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both
>> a
>>> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
>>> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
>>> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
>>> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
>>> and sva domains.
>> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
>> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
>> space shared by mm to a device.
>>
> iirc it's a simplification to free mm pasid at __mmdrop() otherwise the
> implementation is tricky, but I don't remember all the detail...

Yeah, probably we could also free the sva domains in __mmdrop()? Remove
the refcount for sva domain just like what we did for pasid (at the
beginning we had refcount for each pasid...).

Best regards,
baolu
  
Jason Gunthorpe Aug. 9, 2023, 2:46 p.m. UTC | #5
On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 08:18:18AM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
> > A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> > by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> > there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> > the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> > 
> > To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
> > reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
> > However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
> > which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
> > cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
> > and sva domains.
> 
> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
> space shared by mm to a device.

No! The iommu_domain and the PASID are totally seperate objects with
their own lifecycles.

The SVA domain should NEVER be tied to the mm enqcmd PASID.

We might decide to free all the domains and keep the PASID around (can
we even revoke the enqcmd pasid while the MM is alive?)

Jason
  
Baolu Lu Aug. 10, 2023, 1:23 a.m. UTC | #6
On 2023/8/9 22:46, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 08:18:18AM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
>> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
>>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
>>>
>>> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
>>> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
>>> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
>>> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
>>> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
>>> and sva domains.
>> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
>> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
>> space shared by mm to a device.
> No! The iommu_domain and the PASID are totally seperate objects with
> their own lifecycles.
> 
> The SVA domain should NEVER be tied to the mm enqcmd PASID.

Okay. Fair enough.

> 
> We might decide to free all the domains and keep the PASID around (can
> we even revoke the enqcmd pasid while the MM is alive?)

We ever did this and was removed to make code simple.

Best regards,
baolu
  
Zhang, Tina Aug. 10, 2023, 1:31 a.m. UTC | #7
Hi,

On 8/9/23 17:41, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
>>
>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> 
> Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
> this change?
The motivation is to remove the superfluous IOTLB invalidation in 
current VT-d driver.

Currently, in VT-d driver, due to lacking shared sva domain info, in 
intel_flush_svm_range(), both iotlb and dev-tlb invalidation operations 
are performed per-device. However, difference devices could be behind 
one IOMMU (e.g., four devices are behind one IOMMU) and invoking iotlb 
per-device gives us more iotlb invalidation than necessary (4 iotlb 
invalidation instead of 1). This issue may give more performance impact 
when in a virtual machine guest, as currently we have one virtual VT-d 
for in front of those virtual devices.


This patch fixes this issue by attaching shared sva domain information 
to mm, so that it can be utilized in the mm_notifier_ops callbacks.

Regards,
-Tina

> 
>>
>> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both a
>> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
>> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
>> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
>> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
>> and sva domains.
>>
>> This patch-set fills the gap by adding an mm_iommu field[1], whose type is
>> mm_iommu_data struct, to replace the old pasid field. The introduced
>> mm_iommu_data struct keeps info of both a reference list of sva domains
>> and an assigned PASID.
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/ZIBxPd1%2FJCAle6yP@nvidia.com/
>>
>>
>> The RFC version of this patch-set is here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230707013441.365583-1-
>> tina.zhang@intel.com/
>>
>> Tina Zhang (5):
>>    iommu: Add mm_get_pasid() helper function
>>    iommu: Call helper function to get assigned pasid value
>>    mm: Add structure to keep sva information
>>    iommu: Support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains
>>    mm: Deprecate pasid field
>>
>>   arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                       |  2 +-
>>   .../iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c   | 12 ++---
>>   drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c                     |  8 +--
>>   drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c                     | 50 ++++++++++++-------
>>   include/linux/iommu.h                         | 19 +++++--
>>   include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  3 +-
>>   kernel/fork.c                                 |  1 -
>>   mm/init-mm.c                                  |  3 --
>>   8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>
  
Tian, Kevin Aug. 10, 2023, 7:44 a.m. UTC | #8
> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:23 AM
> On 2023/8/9 22:46, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > We might decide to free all the domains and keep the PASID around (can
> > we even revoke the enqcmd pasid while the MM is alive?)
> 
> We ever did this and was removed to make code simple.
> 

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mto0ckpd.ffs@tglx/
  
Tian, Kevin Aug. 10, 2023, 7:49 a.m. UTC | #9
> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:32 AM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/9/23 17:41, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
> >>
> >> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> >> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> >> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> >> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> >
> > Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
> > this change?
> The motivation is to remove the superfluous IOTLB invalidation in
> current VT-d driver.
> 
> Currently, in VT-d driver, due to lacking shared sva domain info, in
> intel_flush_svm_range(), both iotlb and dev-tlb invalidation operations
> are performed per-device. However, difference devices could be behind
> one IOMMU (e.g., four devices are behind one IOMMU) and invoking iotlb
> per-device gives us more iotlb invalidation than necessary (4 iotlb
> invalidation instead of 1). This issue may give more performance impact
> when in a virtual machine guest, as currently we have one virtual VT-d
> for in front of those virtual devices.
> 
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by attaching shared sva domain information
> to mm, so that it can be utilized in the mm_notifier_ops callbacks.
> 

that is one of the motivations. e.g. another one as Jason suggested
is to cleanup to decouple the common sva logic from enqcmd. Both
should be mentioned in next version cover letter.
  
Jason Gunthorpe Aug. 10, 2023, 4:27 p.m. UTC | #10
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 07:49:11AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:32 AM
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 8/9/23 17:41, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > >> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
> > >>
> > >> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> > >> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> > >> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> > >> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> > >
> > > Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
> > > this change?
> > The motivation is to remove the superfluous IOTLB invalidation in
> > current VT-d driver.
> > 
> > Currently, in VT-d driver, due to lacking shared sva domain info, in
> > intel_flush_svm_range(), both iotlb and dev-tlb invalidation operations
> > are performed per-device. However, difference devices could be behind
> > one IOMMU (e.g., four devices are behind one IOMMU) and invoking iotlb
> > per-device gives us more iotlb invalidation than necessary (4 iotlb
> > invalidation instead of 1). This issue may give more performance impact
> > when in a virtual machine guest, as currently we have one virtual VT-d
> > for in front of those virtual devices.
> > 
> > 
> > This patch fixes this issue by attaching shared sva domain information
> > to mm, so that it can be utilized in the mm_notifier_ops callbacks.
> > 
> 
> that is one of the motivations. e.g. another one as Jason suggested
> is to cleanup to decouple the common sva logic from enqcmd. Both
> should be mentioned in next version cover letter.

I also want to purge all the de-duplication and refcounting code
around mm's and sva_binds from the drivers. Eg see the mess this makes
of SMMUv3.

Core code provides a single iommu_domain per-mm for SVA. Driver can
rely on this optimization and does not need to de-duplicate.

Single domain tracks all attachments. Driver can optimize using that
information by de-duplicating (eg ASID invalidation vs ATC
invalidation)

After this we need to fix the domain allocation op to add a
'alloc_domain_sva(dev, mm_struct)' op so that the drivers can setup
their SVA domains fully in a nice lock-safe environment.

Jason
  
Zhang, Tina Aug. 11, 2023, 1:06 a.m. UTC | #11
Hi,

On 8/9/23 18:51, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 2023/8/9 17:44, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>> From: Baolu Lu<baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 8:18 AM
>>>
>>> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
>>>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>>>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>>>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>>>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
>>>>
>>>> To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both
>>> a
>>>> reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
>>>> However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
>>>> which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
>>>> cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between 
>>>> PASID
>>>> and sva domains.
>>> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
>>> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
>>> space shared by mm to a device.
>>>
>> iirc it's a simplification to free mm pasid at __mmdrop() otherwise the
>> implementation is tricky, but I don't remember all the detail...
> 
> Yeah, probably we could also free the sva domains in __mmdrop()? Remove
> the refcount for sva domain just like what we did for pasid (at the
> beginning we had refcount for each pasid...).

For sva usage, mm->mm_count is increased in iommu_sva_domain_alloc(), 
and gets decreased when the domain has no users (which is checked in 
iommu_sva_unbind_device()).

So, in a mm's life time, there could be multiple sva domains, though 
they are using the same PASID. I think it makes sense to mm. Because it 
makes no sense to keep a sva domain alive when no users are using it, 
even though the mm is alive.

Regards,
-Tina

> 
> Best regards,
> baolu
  
Zhang, Tina Aug. 11, 2023, 1:07 a.m. UTC | #12
Hi,

On 8/10/23 15:49, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:32 AM
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/9/23 17:41, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>>> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
>>>>
>>>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>>>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>>>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>>>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
>>>
>>> Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
>>> this change?
>> The motivation is to remove the superfluous IOTLB invalidation in
>> current VT-d driver.
>>
>> Currently, in VT-d driver, due to lacking shared sva domain info, in
>> intel_flush_svm_range(), both iotlb and dev-tlb invalidation operations
>> are performed per-device. However, difference devices could be behind
>> one IOMMU (e.g., four devices are behind one IOMMU) and invoking iotlb
>> per-device gives us more iotlb invalidation than necessary (4 iotlb
>> invalidation instead of 1). This issue may give more performance impact
>> when in a virtual machine guest, as currently we have one virtual VT-d
>> for in front of those virtual devices.
>>
>>
>> This patch fixes this issue by attaching shared sva domain information
>> to mm, so that it can be utilized in the mm_notifier_ops callbacks.
>>
> 
> that is one of the motivations. e.g. another one as Jason suggested
> is to cleanup to decouple the common sva logic from enqcmd. Both
> should be mentioned in next version cover letter.
Right.

Regards,
-Tina
  
Zhang, Tina Aug. 11, 2023, 1:12 a.m. UTC | #13
Hi,

On 8/11/23 00:27, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 07:49:11AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:32 AM
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 8/9/23 17:41, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>>>> From: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@intel.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:50 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
>>>>> by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
>>>>> there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
>>>>> the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
>>>>
>>>> Could you elaborate it with some concrete examples which motivate
>>>> this change?
>>> The motivation is to remove the superfluous IOTLB invalidation in
>>> current VT-d driver.
>>>
>>> Currently, in VT-d driver, due to lacking shared sva domain info, in
>>> intel_flush_svm_range(), both iotlb and dev-tlb invalidation operations
>>> are performed per-device. However, difference devices could be behind
>>> one IOMMU (e.g., four devices are behind one IOMMU) and invoking iotlb
>>> per-device gives us more iotlb invalidation than necessary (4 iotlb
>>> invalidation instead of 1). This issue may give more performance impact
>>> when in a virtual machine guest, as currently we have one virtual VT-d
>>> for in front of those virtual devices.
>>>
>>>
>>> This patch fixes this issue by attaching shared sva domain information
>>> to mm, so that it can be utilized in the mm_notifier_ops callbacks.
>>>
>>
>> that is one of the motivations. e.g. another one as Jason suggested
>> is to cleanup to decouple the common sva logic from enqcmd. Both
>> should be mentioned in next version cover letter.
> 
> I also want to purge all the de-duplication and refcounting code
> around mm's and sva_binds from the drivers. Eg see the mess this makes
> of SMMUv3.
> 
> Core code provides a single iommu_domain per-mm for SVA. Driver can
> rely on this optimization and does not need to de-duplicate.
> 
> Single domain tracks all attachments. Driver can optimize using that
> information by de-duplicating (eg ASID invalidation vs ATC
> invalidation)
> 
> After this we need to fix the domain allocation op to add a
> 'alloc_domain_sva(dev, mm_struct)' op so that the drivers can setup
> their SVA domains fully in a nice lock-safe environment.
Agree. These can be added to the to-do list.

Regards,
-Tina
> 
> Jason