From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PULL 3/4] linux-aio: Resubmit tails of short reads/writes
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:56:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324185619.296946-4-kwolf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260324185619.296946-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
From: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Short reads/writes can happen. One way to reproduce them is via our
FUSE export, with the following diff applied (%s/escaped // to apply --
if you put plain diffs in commit messages, git-am will apply them, and I
would rather avoid breaking FUSE accidentally via this patch):
escaped diff --git a/block/export/fuse.c b/block/export/fuse.c
escaped index a2a478d293..67dc50a412 100644
escaped --- a/block/export/fuse.c
escaped +++ b/block/export/fuse.c
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ static ssize_t coroutine_fn GRAPH_RDLOCK
fuse_co_init(FuseExport *exp, struct fuse_init_out *out,
const struct fuse_init_in_compat *in)
{
- const uint32_t supported_flags = FUSE_ASYNC_READ | FUSE_ASYNC_DIO;
+ const uint32_t supported_flags = FUSE_ASYNC_READ;
if (in->major != 7) {
error_report("FUSE major version mismatch: We have 7, but kernel has %"
@@ -1060,6 +1060,8 @@ fuse_co_read(FuseExport *exp, void **bufptr, uint64_t offset, uint32_t size)
void *buf;
int ret;
+ size = MIN(size, 4096);
+
/* Limited by max_read, should not happen */
if (size > FUSE_MAX_READ_BYTES) {
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1110,6 +1112,8 @@ fuse_co_write(FuseExport *exp, struct fuse_write_out *out,
int64_t blk_len;
int ret;
+ size = MIN(size, 4096);
+
QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(FUSE_MAX_WRITE_BYTES > BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_BYTES);
/* Limited by max_write, should not happen */
if (size > FUSE_MAX_WRITE_BYTES) {
Then:
$ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 8k
Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=8192
$ ./qemu-io -f raw -c 'write -P 42 0 8k' test.raw
wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
8 KiB, 1 ops; 00.00 sec (64.804 MiB/sec and 8294.9003 ops/sec)
$ hexdump -C test.raw
00000000 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a |****************|
*
00002000
With aio=threads, short I/O works:
$ storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon \
--blockdev file,node-name=test,filename=test.raw \
--export fuse,id=exp,node-name=test,mountpoint=test.raw,writable=true
Other shell:
$ ./qemu-io --image-opts -c 'read -P 42 0 8k' \
driver=file,filename=test.raw,cache.direct=on,aio=threads
read 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
8 KiB, 1 ops; 00.00 sec (36.563 MiB/sec and 4680.0923 ops/sec)
$ ./qemu-io --image-opts -c 'write -P 23 0 8k' \
driver=file,filename=test.raw,cache.direct=on,aio=threads
wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
8 KiB, 1 ops; 00.00 sec (35.995 MiB/sec and 4607.2970 ops/sec)
$ hexdump -C test.raw
00000000 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 |................|
*
00002000
But with aio=native, it does not:
$ ./qemu-io --image-opts -c 'read -P 23 0 8k' \
driver=file,filename=test.raw,cache.direct=on,aio=native
Pattern verification failed at offset 0, 8192 bytes
read 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
8 KiB, 1 ops; 00.00 sec (86.155 MiB/sec and 11027.7900 ops/sec)
$ ./qemu-io --image-opts -c 'write -P 42 0 8k' \
driver=file,filename=test.raw,cache.direct=on,aio=native
write failed: No space left on device
$ hexdump -C test.raw
00000000 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a |****************|
*
00001000 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 |................|
*
00002000
This patch fixes that.
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260324084338.37453-3-hreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
block/linux-aio.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/linux-aio.c b/block/linux-aio.c
index 3843f45eac8..0a7424fbb33 100644
--- a/block/linux-aio.c
+++ b/block/linux-aio.c
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ struct qemu_laiocb {
size_t nbytes;
QEMUIOVector *qiov;
+ /* For handling short reads/writes */
+ size_t total_done;
+ QEMUIOVector resubmit_qiov;
+
int fd;
int type;
BdrvRequestFlags flags;
@@ -74,28 +78,61 @@ struct LinuxAioState {
};
static void ioq_submit(LinuxAioState *s);
+static int laio_do_submit(struct qemu_laiocb *laiocb);
static inline ssize_t io_event_ret(struct io_event *ev)
{
return (ssize_t)(((uint64_t)ev->res2 << 32) | ev->res);
}
+/**
+ * Retry tail of short requests.
+ */
+static int laio_resubmit_short_io(struct qemu_laiocb *laiocb, size_t done)
+{
+ QEMUIOVector *resubmit_qiov = &laiocb->resubmit_qiov;
+
+ laiocb->total_done += done;
+
+ if (!resubmit_qiov->iov) {
+ qemu_iovec_init(resubmit_qiov, laiocb->qiov->niov);
+ } else {
+ qemu_iovec_reset(resubmit_qiov);
+ }
+ qemu_iovec_concat(resubmit_qiov, laiocb->qiov,
+ laiocb->total_done, laiocb->nbytes - laiocb->total_done);
+
+ return laio_do_submit(laiocb);
+}
+
/*
* Completes an AIO request.
*/
static void qemu_laio_process_completion(struct qemu_laiocb *laiocb)
{
- int ret;
+ ssize_t ret;
ret = laiocb->ret;
if (ret != -ECANCELED) {
- if (ret == laiocb->nbytes) {
+ if (ret == laiocb->nbytes - laiocb->total_done) {
ret = 0;
+ } else if (ret > 0 && (laiocb->type == QEMU_AIO_READ ||
+ laiocb->type == QEMU_AIO_WRITE)) {
+ ret = laio_resubmit_short_io(laiocb, ret);
+ if (!ret) {
+ return;
+ }
} else if (ret >= 0) {
- /* Short reads mean EOF, pad with zeros. */
+ /*
+ * For normal reads and writes, we only get here if ret == 0, which
+ * means EOF for reads and ENOSPC for writes.
+ * For zone-append, we get here with any ret >= 0, which we just
+ * treat as ENOSPC, too (safer than resubmitting, probably, but not
+ * 100 % clear).
+ */
if (laiocb->type == QEMU_AIO_READ) {
- qemu_iovec_memset(laiocb->qiov, ret, 0,
- laiocb->qiov->size - ret);
+ qemu_iovec_memset(laiocb->qiov, laiocb->total_done, 0,
+ laiocb->qiov->size - laiocb->total_done);
} else {
ret = -ENOSPC;
}
@@ -103,6 +140,9 @@ static void qemu_laio_process_completion(struct qemu_laiocb *laiocb)
}
laiocb->ret = ret;
+ if (laiocb->resubmit_qiov.iov) {
+ qemu_iovec_destroy(&laiocb->resubmit_qiov);
+ }
/*
* If the coroutine is already entered it must be in ioq_submit() and
@@ -379,7 +419,11 @@ static int laio_do_submit(struct qemu_laiocb *laiocb)
struct iocb *iocbs = &laiocb->iocb;
QEMUIOVector *qiov = laiocb->qiov;
int fd = laiocb->fd;
- off_t offset = laiocb->offset;
+ off_t offset = laiocb->offset + laiocb->total_done;
+
+ if (laiocb->resubmit_qiov.iov) {
+ qiov = &laiocb->resubmit_qiov;
+ }
switch (laiocb->type) {
case QEMU_AIO_WRITE:
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 18:56 [PULL 0/4] Block layer patches Kevin Wolf
2026-03-24 18:56 ` [PULL 1/4] block/curl: free s->password in cleanup paths Kevin Wolf
2026-03-24 18:56 ` [PULL 2/4] linux-aio: Put all parameters into qemu_laiocb Kevin Wolf
2026-03-24 18:56 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2026-03-24 18:56 ` [PULL 4/4] io-uring: Resubmit tails of short writes Kevin Wolf
2026-03-25 16:52 ` [PULL 0/4] Block layer patches Peter Maydell
2026-03-26 5:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-03-26 12:50 ` Kevin Wolf
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