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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] virtio: decouple protected guest RAM form VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 05:06:04PM +0100, Halil Pasic wrote:
> For vhost-net the feature VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM has the following side
> effect The vhost code assumes it the addresses on the virtio descriptor
> ring are not guest physical addresses but iova's, and insists on doing a
> translation of these regardless of what transport is used (e.g. whether
> we emulate a PCI or a CCW device). (For details see commit 6b1e6cc7855b
> "vhost: new device IOTLB API".) On s390 this results in severe
> performance degradation (c.a. factor 10). BTW with ccw I/O there is
> (architecturally) no IOMMU, so the whole address translation makes no
> sense in the context of virtio-ccw.

So it sounds like a host issue: the emulation of s390 unnecessarily complicated.
Working around it by the guest looks wrong ...

> Halil Pasic (2):
> mm: move force_dma_unencrypted() to mem_encrypt.h
> virtio: let virtio use DMA API when guest RAM is protected
>
> drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 +++
> include/linux/dma-direct.h | 9 ---------
> include/linux/mem_encrypt.h | 10 ++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: ca7e1fd1026c5af6a533b4b5447e1d2f153e28f2
> --
> 2.17.1

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