The qcow workers carried their own O_DIRECT alignment requirement
and bounced unaligned cluster accesses through AlignedBuffer. Now
that the data file is an AlignedFile that handles O_DIRECT
transparently, the qcow layer can read and write through plain
buffers and let AlignedFile perform the aligned bounce.
Remove the alignment field and the per cluster AlignedBuffer RMW
branches from both the sync and async workers. The async io_uring
fast path still needs to avoid submitting unaligned guest iovecs
under O_DIRECT, so gate it on is_direct rather than on a stored
alignment value.
Drop the QcowAsync alignment override so it reports the trait
default sector size, matching QcowSync. qcow never submits guest
iovecs to the kernel under O_DIRECT, so reporting a larger value
only forced the request layer into an extra bounce buffer.
This adds one buffer copy per unaligned O_DIRECT cluster but moves
all alignment handling into a single place. The buffered path is
unchanged.
With qcow no longer the only caller, AlignedBuffer::read_exact_from
becomes dead code, so remove it and switch its tests to read_from.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>
Replace the qcow specific AlignedBuf along with the pread64/pwrite64
helpers with the new common AlignedBuffer implementation.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
Replace the manual alloc_zeroed/dealloc and pread64/pwrite64 with use of
the new AlignedBuffer structure.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
The block code repeatedly open-codes O_DIRECT alignment calculations and
bounce-buffer allocation at each I/O site. Add an AlignedBuffer struct
that handles the alignment and allocation in one place, using FileExt
(read_exact_at and write_all_at) for the I/O (so no need for custom libc
wrappers).
The caller creates an AlignedBuffer with an offset, length and
alignment, then uses read_from and write_to for aligned I/O and as_slice
and as_mut_slice to access the logical data portion within the aligned
region.
This is a lot like the AlignedBuf that was already existing in the QCOW2
code but is a more generalised version.
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
