From: Jason Wang [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30 PM
On 2019/10/31 下午10:07, Liu, Yi L wrote:
From: Jason Wang [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/22] intel_iommu: expose Shared Virtual
Addressing to VM
On 2019/10/25 下午6:12, Tian, Kevin wrote:
From: Jason Wang [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 5:49 PM
On 2019/10/24 下午8:34, Liu Yi L wrote:
Shared virtual address (SVA), a.k.a, Shared virtual memory (SVM) on
Intel platforms allow address space sharing between device DMA
and
applications.
Interesting, so the below figure demonstrates the case of VM. I
wonder how much differences if we compare it with doing SVM
between
device and an ordinary process (e.g dpdk)?
Thanks
One difference is that ordinary process requires only stage-1
translation, while VM requires nested translation.
A silly question, then I believe there's no need for VFIO DMA API in this
case consider
the page table is shared between MMU and IOMMU?
Echo Kevin's reply. We use nested translation here. For stage-1, yes, no
need to use
VFIO DMA API. For stage-2, we still use VFIO DMA API to program the
GPA->HPA
mapping to host. :-)
Cool, two more questions:
- Can EPT shares its page table with IOMMU L2?
yes, their formats are compatible.
- Similar to EPT, when GPA->HPA (actually HVA->HPA) is modified by mm,
VFIO need to use MMU notifier do modify L2 accordingly besides DMA API?
VFIO devices need to pin-down guest memory pages that are mapped
in IOMMU. So notifier is not required since mm won't change the mapping
for those pages.