Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap
sub-page(size < PAGE_SIZE) MMIO BARs and MSI-X table. This is because
sub-page BARs' mmio page may be shared with other BARs and MSI-X table
should not be accessed directly from the guest for security reasons.
But these will easily cause some performance issues for mmio accesses
in guest when vfio passthrough sub-page BARs or BARs containing MSI-X
table on PPC64 platform. This is because PAGE_SIZE is 64KB by default
on PPC64 platform and the big page may easily hit the sub-page MMIO
BARs' unmmapping and cause the unmmaping of the mmio page which
MSI-X table locate in, which lead to mmio emulation in host.
For sub-page MMIO BARs' unmmapping, this patchset adds a kernel
parameter for PCI resource allocator to enforce the alignment of all
MMIO BARs to be at least PAGE_SZIE and make it enabled by default on
PPC64 platform so that sub-page BAR's mmio page will not be shared
with other BARs. Then we can mmap sub-page MMIO BARs in vfio-pci driver
with this parameter enabled.
For MSI-X table's unmmapping, we think MSI-X table is safe to access
directly from userspace with EEH mechanism enabled which can ensure that
a given pci device can only shoot the MSIs assigned for its PE. So
we add a Kconfig option to support for mmapping MSI-X table in vfio-pci
driver if EEH is supported.
With this patchset applied, we can get almost 100% improvement on
performance for mmio accesses when we passthrough sub-page BARs to guest
in our test.
The last two patches are based on the proposed patchset[1].
Changelog v2:
- Rebase on v4.4-rc6 with the patchset[1] applied.
- Use kernel parameter to enforce all MMIO BARs to be page aligned
on PCI core code instead of doing it on PPC64 arch code.
- Remove flags: VFIO_DEVICE_FLAGS_PCI_PAGE_ALIGNED
VFIO_DEVICE_FLAGS_PCI_MSIX_MMAP
- Add a Kconfig option to support for mmapping MSI-X table.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/23/748
Yongji Xie (3):
PCI: Add support for enforcing all MMIO BARs to be page aligned
vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs if all MMIO BARs are page aligned
vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if EEH is supported
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h | 11 +++++++++++
drivers/pci/pci.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
drivers/pci/pci.h | 7 ++++++-
drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig | 4 ++++
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 13 ++++++++++---
include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++
7 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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