On 02.05.23 15:50, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 03:47:43PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
Eventually we want to implement a mechanism where we can dynamically pin in response to RPCIT.
Okay, so IIRC we'll fail starting the domain early, that's good. And if we
pin all guest memory (instead of small pieces dynamically), there is little
existing use for file-backed RAM in such zPCI configurations (because memory
cannot be reclaimed either way if it's all pinned), so likely there are no
real existing users.
Right, this is VFIO, the physical HW can't tolerate not having pinned
memory, so something somewhere is always pinning it.
Which, again, makes it weird/wrong that this KVM code is pinning it
again :\
IIUC, that pinning is not for ordinary IOMMU / KVM memory access. It's
for passthrough of (adapter) interrupts.
I have to speculate, but I guess for hardware to forward interrupts to
the VM, it has to pin the special guest memory page that will receive
the indications, to then configure (interrupt) hardware to target the
interrupt indications to that special guest page (using a host physical
address).
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
