iommu/amd: Introduce Disable IRTE Caching Support
authorSuravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Tue, 30 May 2023 14:11:35 +0000 (10:11 -0400)
committerJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Jun 2023 12:47:09 +0000 (14:47 +0200)
commit66419036f68a838c00cbccacd6cb2e99da6e5710
tree33546e4d8e48d6e2214ffc9dfb98607a716530db
parent74a37817bd1567330fb372eb01223e31b45b1cc0
iommu/amd: Introduce Disable IRTE Caching Support

An Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) stores interrupt remapping configuration
for each device. In a normal operation, the AMD IOMMU caches the table
to optimize subsequent data accesses. This requires the IOMMU driver to
invalidate IRT whenever it updates the table. The invalidation process
includes issuing an INVALIDATE_INTERRUPT_TABLE command following by
a COMPLETION_WAIT command.

However, there are cases in which the IRT is updated at a high rate.
For example, for IOMMU AVIC, the IRTE[IsRun] bit is updated on every
vcpu scheduling (i.e. amd_iommu_update_ga()). On system with large
amount of vcpus and VFIO PCI pass-through devices, the invalidation
process could potentially become a performance bottleneck.

Introducing a new kernel boot option:

    amd_iommu=irtcachedis

which disables IRTE caching by setting the IRTCachedis bit in each IOMMU
Control register, and bypass the IRT invalidation process.

Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530141137.14376-4-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
drivers/iommu/amd/amd_iommu_types.h
drivers/iommu/amd/init.c