drm/i915/gvt: Fix guest vGPU hang caused by very high dma setup overhead

The implementation of current kvmgt implicitly setup dma mapping at MPT
API gfn_to_mfn. First this design against the API's original purpose.
Second, there is no unmap hit in this design. The result is that the
dma mapping keep growing larger and larger. For mutl-vm case, they will
consume IOMMU IOVA low 4GB address space quickly and so tons of rbtree
entries crated in the IOMMU IOVA allocator. Finally, single IOVA
allocation can take as long as ~70ms. Such latency is intolerable.

To address both above issues, this patch introduced two new MPT API:
  o dma_map_guest_page - setup dma map for guest page
  o dma_unmap_guest_page - cancel dma map for guest page

The kvmgt implements these 2 API. And to reduce dma setup overhead for
duplicated pages (eg. scratch pages), two caches are used: one is for
mapping gfn to struct gvt_dma, another is for mapping dma addr to
struct gvt_dma.

With these 2 new API, the gtt now is able to cancel dma mapping when page
table is invalidated. The dma mapping is not in a gradual increase now.

v2: follow the old logic for VFIO_IOMMU_NOTIFY_DMA_UNMAP at this point.

Cc: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan@intel.com>
Cc: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/hypercall.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/hypercall.h
index cb6303e630a4..f6dd9f717888 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/hypercall.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/hypercall.h
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ struct intel_gvt_mpt {
 	int (*write_gpa)(unsigned long handle, unsigned long gpa, void *buf,
 			 unsigned long len);
 	unsigned long (*gfn_to_mfn)(unsigned long handle, unsigned long gfn);
+
+	int (*dma_map_guest_page)(unsigned long handle, unsigned long gfn,
+				  dma_addr_t *dma_addr);
+	void (*dma_unmap_guest_page)(unsigned long handle, dma_addr_t dma_addr);
+
 	int (*map_gfn_to_mfn)(unsigned long handle, unsigned long gfn,
 			      unsigned long mfn, unsigned int nr, bool map);
 	int (*set_trap_area)(unsigned long handle, u64 start, u64 end,