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[v2,net-next] drivers/net: Enable IOMMU pass through for be2net

Message ID 1358562195-2028-2-git-send-email-craig.hada@hp.com
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Craig Hada Jan. 19, 2013, 2:23 a.m. UTC
This patch sets the coherent DMA mask to 64-bit after the be2net driver
has been acknowledged that the system is 64-bit DMA capable. The coherent
DMA mask is examined by the Intel IOMMU driver to determine whether to
allow pass through context mapping for all devices. With this patch, the
be2net driver combined with be2net compatible hardware provides
comparable performance to the case where vt-d is disabled. The main use
case for this change is to decrease the time necessary to copy virtual
machine memory during KVM live migration instantiations.

This patch was tested on a system that enables the IOMMU in non-coherent
mode. Two DMA remapper issues were encountered in the previous version and
both patches have been committed.
    commit ea2447f700cab264019b52e2b417d689e052dcfd
    commit 2e12bc29fc5a12242d68e11875db3dd58efad9ff

Signed-off-by: Craig Hada <craig.hada@hp.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Ivan Vecera April 5, 2013, 7:51 a.m. UTC | #1
On 01/19/2013 03:23 AM, Craig Hada wrote:
> This patch sets the coherent DMA mask to 64-bit after the be2net driver
> has been acknowledged that the system is 64-bit DMA capable. The coherent
> DMA mask is examined by the Intel IOMMU driver to determine whether to
> allow pass through context mapping for all devices. With this patch, the
> be2net driver combined with be2net compatible hardware provides
> comparable performance to the case where vt-d is disabled. The main use
> case for this change is to decrease the time necessary to copy virtual
> machine memory during KVM live migration instantiations.
>
> This patch was tested on a system that enables the IOMMU in non-coherent
> mode. Two DMA remapper issues were encountered in the previous version and
> both patches have been committed.
>      commit ea2447f700cab264019b52e2b417d689e052dcfd
>      commit 2e12bc29fc5a12242d68e11875db3dd58efad9ff
>
> Signed-off-by: Craig Hada <craig.hada@hp.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c |    6 ++++++
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> index 9dca22b..b507e99 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> @@ -4052,6 +4052,12 @@ static int be_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *pdev_id)
>
>   	status = dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
>   	if (!status) {
> +		status = dma_set_coherent_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
> +		if (status < 0) {
> +			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> +				"dma_set_coherent_mask failed, aborting\n");
> +			goto free_netdev;
> +		}
>   		netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
>   	} else {
>   		status = dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
>

Dave, I'd like to ask when do you plan to apply this patch?

Thanks,
Ivan
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David Miller April 5, 2013, 8:24 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:51:24 +0200

> Dave, I'd like to ask when do you plan to apply this patch?

I'm waiting for the be2net driver maintainers to integrate it and
resend it to me, they're usually very good about that.
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Sathya Perla April 5, 2013, 8:37 a.m. UTC | #3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> 
> From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:51:24 +0200
> 
> > Dave, I'd like to ask when do you plan to apply this patch?
> 
> I'm waiting for the be2net driver maintainers to integrate it and resend it to
> me, they're usually very good about that.

Ok, I'll do it and send out a patch soon...thanks!
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
index 9dca22b..b507e99 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -4052,6 +4052,12 @@  static int be_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *pdev_id)
 
 	status = dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
 	if (!status) {
+		status = dma_set_coherent_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
+		if (status < 0) {
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
+				"dma_set_coherent_mask failed, aborting\n");
+			goto free_netdev;
+		}
 		netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
 	} else {
 		status = dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));