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[kernel] vfio/spapr: Add cond_resched() for huge updates

Message ID 20170921100024.44924-1-aik@ozlabs.ru (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Alexey Kardashevskiy Sept. 21, 2017, 10 a.m. UTC
Clearing very big IOMMU tables can trigger soft lockups. This adds
cond_resched() for every million TCE updates.

The testcase is POWER9 box with 264GB guest, 4 VFIO devices from
independent IOMMU groups, 64K IOMMU pages. This configuration produces
4325376 TCE entries, each entry update incurs 4 OPAL calls to update
an individual PE TCE cache. Reducing table size to 4194304 (i.e. 256GB
guest) or removing one of 4 VFIO devices makes the problem go away so
doing cond_resched() after every million TCE updates seems sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Gibson Sept. 23, 2017, 3:58 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 08:00:24PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Clearing very big IOMMU tables can trigger soft lockups. This adds
> cond_resched() for every million TCE updates.
> 
> The testcase is POWER9 box with 264GB guest, 4 VFIO devices from
> independent IOMMU groups, 64K IOMMU pages. This configuration produces
> 4325376 TCE entries, each entry update incurs 4 OPAL calls to update
> an individual PE TCE cache. Reducing table size to 4194304 (i.e. 256GB
> guest) or removing one of 4 VFIO devices makes the problem go away so
> doing cond_resched() after every million TCE updates seems sufficient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> index 63112c36ab2d..be3839ea3150 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> @@ -502,11 +502,15 @@ static int tce_iommu_clear(struct tce_container *container,
>  		struct iommu_table *tbl,
>  		unsigned long entry, unsigned long pages)
>  {
> -	unsigned long oldhpa;
> +	unsigned long oldhpa, n;
>  	long ret;
>  	enum dma_data_direction direction;
>  
> -	for ( ; pages; --pages, ++entry) {
> +	for (n = 0; pages; --pages, ++entry, ++n) {
> +
> +		if (n && (n % 1000000 == 0))
> +			cond_resched();
> +
>  		direction = DMA_NONE;
>  		oldhpa = 0;
>  		ret = iommu_tce_xchg(tbl, entry, &oldhpa, &direction);
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diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
index 63112c36ab2d..be3839ea3150 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
@@ -502,11 +502,15 @@  static int tce_iommu_clear(struct tce_container *container,
 		struct iommu_table *tbl,
 		unsigned long entry, unsigned long pages)
 {
-	unsigned long oldhpa;
+	unsigned long oldhpa, n;
 	long ret;
 	enum dma_data_direction direction;
 
-	for ( ; pages; --pages, ++entry) {
+	for (n = 0; pages; --pages, ++entry, ++n) {
+
+		if (n && (n % 1000000 == 0))
+			cond_resched();
+
 		direction = DMA_NONE;
 		oldhpa = 0;
 		ret = iommu_tce_xchg(tbl, entry, &oldhpa, &direction);