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In some virtualized environments, including s390 paged memory guests, IOTLB flushes are used to update IOMMU shadow tables. Due to this, they are much more expensive than in typical bare metal environments or non-paged s390 guests. In addition they may parallelize poorly in virtualized environments. This changes the trade off for flushing IOVAs such that minimizing the number of IOTLB flushes trumps any benefit of cheaper queuing operations or increased paralellism. In this scenario per-CPU flush queues pose several problems. Firstly per-CPU memory is often quite limited prohibiting larger queues. Secondly collecting IOVAs per-CPU but flushing via a global timeout reduces the number of IOVAs flushed for each timeout especially on s390 where PCI interrupts may not be bound to a specific CPU. Let's introduce a single flush queue mode that reuses the same queue logic but only allocates a single global queue. This mode is selected by dma-iommu if a newly introduced .shadow_on_flush flag is set in struct dev_iommu. As a first user the s390 IOMMU driver sets this flag during probe_device. With the unchanged small FQ size and timeouts this setting is worse than per-CPU queues but a follow up patch will make the FQ size and timeout variable. Together this allows the common IOVA flushing code to more closely resemble the global flush behavior used on s390's previous internal DMA API implementation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9a466109-01c5-96b0-bf03-304123f435ee@arm.com/ Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com> #s390 Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928-dma_iommu-v13-5-9e5fc4dacc36@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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