[PATCH kernel v3] vfio/spapr: Add cond_resched() for huge updates

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:16:12PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Clearing very big IOMMU tables can trigger soft lockups. This adds
> cond_resched() to allow the scheduler to do context switching when
> it decides to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>

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

> ---
> 
> 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; this produced lockups for more than 20s.
> Reducing table size to 4194304 (i.e. 256GB guest) or removing one
> of 4 VFIO devices makes the problem go away.
> 
> ---
> Changes:
> v3:
> * cond_resched() checks for should_resched() so we just call resched()
> and let the cpu scheduler decide whether to switch or not
> 
> v2:
> * replaced with time based solution
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> index 63112c36ab2d..759a5bdd40e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> @@ -507,6 +507,8 @@ static int tce_iommu_clear(struct tce_container *container,
>  	enum dma_data_direction direction;
>  
>  	for ( ; pages; --pages, ++entry) {
> +		cond_resched();
> +
>  		direction = DMA_NONE;
>  		oldhpa = 0;
>  		ret = iommu_tce_xchg(tbl, entry, &oldhpa, &direction);

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