[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] native preadv/pwritev support

[Christoph Hellwig]

unistd.h.  This is the case currently on at least NetBSD and OpenBSD and
will hopefully soon be the case on Linux.

Thanks to Blue Swirl and Gerd Hoffmann for the configure autodetection
of preadv/pwritev.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <address@hidden>

Index: qemu/posix-aio-compat.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/posix-aio-compat.c        2009-04-06 14:02:50.543569977 +0200
+++ qemu/posix-aio-compat.c     2009-04-06 14:02:52.540445071 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ static int cur_threads = 0;
 static int idle_threads = 0;
 static TAILQ_HEAD(, qemu_paiocb) request_list;
 
+#ifdef HAVE_PREADV
+static int preadv_present = 1;
+#else
+static int preadv_present = 0;
+#endif
+
 static void die2(int err, const char *what)
 {
     fprintf(stderr, "%s failed: %s\n", what, strerror(err));
@@ -87,6 +93,36 @@ static size_t handle_aiocb_ioctl(struct 
        return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_PREADV
+
+static ssize_t
+qemu_preadv(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int nr_iov, off_t offset)
+{
+    return preadv(fd, iov, nr_iov, offset);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+qemu_pwritev(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int nr_iov, off_t offset)
+{
+    return pwritev(fd, iov, nr_iov, offset);
+}
+
+#else
+
+static ssize_t
+qemu_preadv(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int nr_iov, off_t offset)
+{
+    return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+qemu_pwritev(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int nr_iov, off_t offset)
+{
+    return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Check if we need to copy the data in the aiocb into a new
  * properly aligned buffer.
@@ -104,6 +140,29 @@ static int aiocb_needs_copy(struct qemu_
     return 0;
 }
 
+static size_t handle_aiocb_rw_vector(struct qemu_paiocb *aiocb)
+{
+    size_t offset = 0;
+    ssize_t len;
+
+    do {
+        if (aiocb->aio_type == QEMU_PAIO_WRITE)
+            len = qemu_pwritev(aiocb->aio_fildes,
+                               aiocb->aio_iov,
+                               aiocb->aio_niov,
+                               aiocb->aio_offset + offset);
+         else
+            len = qemu_preadv(aiocb->aio_fildes,
+                              aiocb->aio_iov,
+                              aiocb->aio_niov,
+                              aiocb->aio_offset + offset);
+    } while (len == -1 && errno == EINTR);
+
+    if (len == -1)
+        return -errno;
+    return len;
+}
+
 static size_t handle_aiocb_rw_linear(struct qemu_paiocb *aiocb, char *buf)
 {
     size_t offset = 0;
@@ -140,12 +199,34 @@ static size_t handle_aiocb_rw(struct qem
     size_t nbytes;
     char *buf;
 
-    if (!aiocb_needs_copy(aiocb) && aiocb->aio_niov == 1) {
+    if (!aiocb_needs_copy(aiocb)) {
         /*
          * If there is just a single buffer, and it is properly aligned
          * we can just use plain pread/pwrite without any problems.
          */
-        return handle_aiocb_rw_linear(aiocb, aiocb->aio_iov->iov_base);
+        if (aiocb->aio_niov == 1)
+             return handle_aiocb_rw_linear(aiocb, aiocb->aio_iov->iov_base);
+
+        /*
+         * We have more than one iovec, and all are properly aligned.
+         *
+         * Try preadv/pwritev first and fall back to linearizing the
+         * buffer if it's not supported.
+         */
+       if (preadv_present) {
+            nbytes = handle_aiocb_rw_vector(aiocb);
+            if (nbytes == aiocb->aio_nbytes)
+               return nbytes;
+            if (nbytes < 0 && nbytes != -ENOSYS)
+                return nbytes;
+            preadv_present = 0;
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * XXX(hch): short read/write.  no easy way to handle the reminder
+         * using these interfaces.  For now retry using plain
+         * pread/pwrite?
+         */
     }
 
     /*
Index: qemu/configure
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/configure 2009-04-06 14:00:48.658569843 +0200
+++ qemu/configure      2009-04-06 14:02:52.540445071 +0200
@@ -1108,6 +1108,19 @@ if $cc $ARCH_CFLAGS -o $TMPE $TMPC > /de
 fi
 
 ##########################################
+# preadv probe
+cat > $TMPC <<EOF
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/uio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+int main(void) { preadv; }
+EOF
+preadv=no
+if $cc $ARCH_CFLAGS -o $TMPE $TMPC > /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
+  preadv=yes
+fi
+
+##########################################
 # fdt probe
 if test "$fdt" = "yes" ; then
     fdt=no
@@ -1221,6 +1234,7 @@ echo "AIO support       $aio"
 echo "Install blobs     $blobs"
 echo "KVM support       $kvm"
 echo "fdt support       $fdt"
+echo "preadv support    $preadv"
 
 if test $sdl_too_old = "yes"; then
 echo "-> Your SDL version is too old - please upgrade to have SDL support"
@@ -1522,6 +1536,9 @@ fi
 if test "$iovec" = "yes" ; then
   echo "#define HAVE_IOVEC 1" >> $config_h
 fi
+if test "$preadv" = "yes" ; then
+  echo "#define HAVE_PREADV 1" >> $config_h
+fi
 if test "$fdt" = "yes" ; then
   echo "#define HAVE_FDT 1" >> $config_h
   echo "FDT_LIBS=-lfdt" >> $config_mak
Index: qemu/block.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/block.c   2009-04-06 14:02:50.538445233 +0200
+++ qemu/block.c        2009-04-06 14:02:52.554453627 +0200
@@ -1354,10 +1354,9 @@ static void bdrv_aio_bh_cb(void *opaque)
 {
     BlockDriverAIOCBSync *acb = opaque;
 
-    qemu_vfree(acb->bounce);
-
     if (!acb->is_write)
         qemu_iovec_from_buffer(acb->qiov, acb->bounce, acb->qiov->size);
+    qemu_vfree(acb->bounce);
     acb->common.cb(acb->common.opaque, acb->ret);
 
     qemu_aio_release(acb);