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SubjectRE: [PATCH v5 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:07:36PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
>
> On 07/12/2019 12:12, Ram Pai wrote:
> > H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT hcall uses a page filled with TCE entries, as one of
> > its parameters. On secure VMs, hypervisor cannot access the contents of
> > this page since it gets encrypted. Hence share the page with the
> > hypervisor, and unshare when done.
>
>
> I thought the idea was to use H_PUT_TCE and avoid sharing any extra
> pages. There is small problem that when DDW is enabled,
> FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE is ignored (easy to fix); I also noticed complains
> about the performance on slack but this is caused by initial cleanup of
> the default TCE window (which we do not use anyway) and to battle this
> we can simply reduce its size by adding

something that takes hardly any time with H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT, takes
13secs per device for H_PUT_TCE approach, during boot. This is with a
30GB guest. With larger guest, the time will further detoriate.

>
> -global
> spapr-pci-host-bridge.dma_win_size=0x4000000

This option, speeds it up tremendously. But than should this option be
enabled in qemu by default? only for secure VMs? for both VMs?


RP

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