block: add BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF request flag

Block drivers may optimize I/O requests accessing buffers previously
registered with bdrv_register_buf(). Checking whether all elements of a
request's QEMUIOVector are within previously registered buffers is
expensive, so we need a hint from the user to avoid costly checks.

Add a BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF request flag to indicate that all
QEMUIOVector elements in an I/O request are known to be within
previously registered buffers.

Always pass the flag through to driver read/write functions. There is
little harm in passing the flag to a driver that does not use it.
Passing the flag to drivers avoids changes across many block drivers.
Filter drivers would need to explicitly support the flag and pass
through to their children when the children support it. That's a lot of
code changes and it's hard to remember to do that everywhere, leading to
silent reduced performance when the flag is accidentally dropped.

The only problematic scenario with the approach in this patch is when a
driver passes the flag through to internal I/O requests that don't use
the same I/O buffer. In that case the hint may be set when it should
actually be clear. This is a rare case though so the risk is low.

Some drivers have assert(!flags), which no longer works when
BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF is passed in. These assertions aren't very
useful anyway since the functions are called almost exclusively by
bdrv_driver_preadv/pwritev() so if we get flags handling right there
then the assertion is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-7-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
index 80c0109..bed089d 100644
--- a/block/mirror.c
+++ b/block/mirror.c
@@ -1486,6 +1486,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_mirror_top_pwritev(BlockDriverState *bs,
         qemu_iovec_init(&bounce_qiov, 1);
         qemu_iovec_add(&bounce_qiov, bounce_buf, bytes);
         qiov = &bounce_qiov;
+
+        flags &= ~BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF;
     }
 
     ret = bdrv_mirror_top_do_write(bs, MIRROR_METHOD_COPY, offset, bytes, qiov,