On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:37:16 -0700
mhkelley58@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In a CoCo VM, all DMA-based I/O must use swiotlb bounce buffers
> because DMA cannot be done to private (encrypted) portions of VM
> memory. The bounce buffer memory is marked shared (decrypted) at
> boot time, so I/O is done to/from the bounce buffer memory and then
> copied by the CPU to/from the final target memory (i.e, "bounced").
> Storage devices can be large consumers of bounce buffer memory because it
> is possible to have large numbers of I/Os in flight across multiple
> devices. Bounce buffer memory must be pre-allocated at boot time, and
> it is difficult to know how much memory to allocate to handle peak
> storage I/O loads. Consequently, bounce buffer memory is typically
> over-provisioned, which wastes memory, and may still not avoid a peak
> that exhausts bounce buffer memory and cause storage I/O errors.
>
> To solve this problem for Coco VMs running on Hyper-V, update the
> storvsc driver to permit bounce buffer throttling. First, use
> scsi_dma_map_attrs() instead of scsi_dma_map(). Then gate the
> throttling behavior on a DMA layer check indicating that throttling is
> useful, so that no change occurs in a non-CoCo VM. If throttling is
> useful, pass the DMA_ATTR_MAY_BLOCK attribute, and set the block queue
> flag indicating that the I/O request submission path may sleep, which
> could happen when throttling. With these options in place, DMA map
> requests are pended when necessary to reduce the likelihood of usage
> peaks caused by storvsc that could exhaust bounce buffer memory and
> generate errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
LGTM, but I'm not familiar with this driver or the SCSI layer. In
particular, I don't know if it's OK to change the value of
host->queuecommand_may_block after scsi_host_alloc() initialized it
from a scsi host template, although it seems to be fine.
Petr T
> ---
> drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> index 7ceb982040a5..7bedd5502d07 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> @@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ struct hv_host_device {
> struct workqueue_struct *handle_error_wq;
> struct work_struct host_scan_work;
> struct Scsi_Host *host;
> + unsigned long dma_attrs;
> };
>
> struct storvsc_scan_work {
> @@ -1810,7 +1811,7 @@ static int storvsc_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
> payload->range.len = length;
> payload->range.offset = offset_in_hvpg;
>
> - sg_count = scsi_dma_map(scmnd);
> + sg_count = scsi_dma_map_attrs(scmnd, host_dev->dma_attrs);
> if (sg_count < 0) {
> ret = SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY;
> goto err_free_payload;
> @@ -2030,6 +2031,12 @@ static int storvsc_probe(struct hv_device *device,
> * have an offset that is a multiple of HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE.
> */
> host->sg_tablesize = (max_xfer_bytes >> HV_HYP_PAGE_SHIFT) + 1;
> +
> + if (dma_recommend_may_block(&device->device)) {
> + host->queuecommand_may_block = true;
> + host_dev->dma_attrs = DMA_ATTR_MAY_BLOCK;
> + }
> +
> /*
> * For non-IDE disks, the host supports multiple channels.
> * Set the number of HW queues we are supporting.
