Remove 4k-chunking in QFSFileEngine::read/writeFdFh

This was a serious performance issue on Symbian and not necessarily
optimal on other platforms. For the time being, we'll allow the OS to
read/write as much as it can.

Otherwise cleaned up the code, adding checks for invalid len arguments.

Task-number: QT-2347
Reviewed-by: Peter Hartmann

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 85 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine.cpp
index fb096a77f8..7ea1815578 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine.cpp
@@ -622,71 +622,55 @@ qint64 QFSFileEnginePrivate::readFdFh(char *data, qint64 len)
 {
     Q_Q(QFSFileEngine);
 
-    // Buffered stdlib mode.
+    if (len < 0 || len != qint64(size_t(len))) {
+        q->setError(QFile::ReadError, qt_error_string(EINVAL));
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    qint64 readBytes = 0;
+    bool eof = false;
+
     if (fh) {
-        qint64 readBytes = 0;
-        qint64 read = 0;
-        int retry = 0;
+        // Buffered stdlib mode.
 
-        // Read in blocks of 4k to avoid platform limitations (Windows
-        // commonly bails out if you read or write too large blocks at once).
-        qint64 bytesToRead;
+        size_t result;
+        bool retry = true;
         do {
-            if (retry == 1)
-                retry = 2;
-
-            bytesToRead = qMin<qint64>(4096, len - read);
-            do {
-                readBytes = fread(data + read, 1, size_t(bytesToRead), fh);
-            } while (readBytes == 0 && !feof(fh) && errno == EINTR);
-
-            if (readBytes > 0) {
-                read += readBytes;
-            } else if (!retry && feof(fh)) {
-                // Synchronize and try again (just once though).
-                if (++retry == 1)
-                    QT_FSEEK(fh, QT_FTELL(fh), SEEK_SET);
+            result = fread(data + readBytes, 1, size_t(len - readBytes), fh);
+            eof = feof(fh);
+            if (retry && eof && result == 0) {
+                // On Mac OS, this is needed, e.g., if a file was written to
+                // through another stream since our last read. See test
+                // tst_QFile::appendAndRead
+                QT_FSEEK(fh, QT_FTELL(fh), SEEK_SET); // re-sync stream.
+                retry = false;
+                continue;
             }
-        } while (retry == 1 || (readBytes == bytesToRead && read < len));
+            readBytes += result;
+        } while (!eof && (result == 0 ? errno == EINTR : readBytes < len));
 
-        // Return the number of bytes read, or if nothing was read, return -1
-        // if an error occurred, or 0 if we detected EOF.
-        if (read == 0) {
-            q->setError(QFile::ReadError, qt_error_string(int(errno)));
-            if (!feof(fh))
-                read = -1;
-        }
-        return read;
-    }
+    } else if (fd != -1) {
+        // Unbuffered stdio mode.
 
-    // Unbuffered stdio mode.
-    qint64 ret = 0;
-    if (len) {
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
         int result;
-        qint64 read = 0;
-        errno = 0;
-
-        // Read in blocks of 4k to avoid platform limitations (Windows
-        // commonly bails out if you read or write too large blocks at once).
+#else
+        ssize_t result;
+#endif
         do {
-            qint64 bytesToRead = qMin<qint64>(4096, len - read);
-            do {
-                result = QT_READ(fd, data + read, int(bytesToRead));
-            } while (result == -1 && errno == EINTR);
-            if (result > 0)
-                read += result;
-        } while (result > 0 && read < len);
-
-        // Return the number of bytes read, or if nothing was read, return -1
-        // if an error occurred.
-        if (read > 0) {
-            ret += read;
-        } else if (read == 0 && result < 0) {
-            ret = -1;
-            q->setError(QFile::ReadError, qt_error_string(errno));
-        }
+            result = QT_READ(fd, data + readBytes, size_t(len - readBytes));
+        } while ((result == -1 && errno == EINTR)
+                || (result > 0 && (readBytes += result) < len));
+
+        eof = !(result == -1);
     }
-    return ret;
+
+    if (!eof && readBytes == 0) {
+        readBytes = -1;
+        q->setError(QFile::ReadError, qt_error_string(errno));
+    }
+
+    return readBytes;
 }
 
 /*!
@@ -766,36 +750,45 @@ qint64 QFSFileEngine::write(const char *data, qint64 len)
 qint64 QFSFileEnginePrivate::writeFdFh(const char *data, qint64 len)
 {
     Q_Q(QFSFileEngine);
-    qint64 result;
-    qint64 written = 0;
 
-    do {
-        // Write blocks of 4k to avoid platform limitations (Windows commonly
-        // bails out if you read or write too large blocks at once).
-        qint64 bytesToWrite = qMin<qint64>(4096, len - written);
-        if (fh) {
-            do {
-                // Buffered stdlib mode.
-                result = qint64(fwrite(data + written, 1, size_t(bytesToWrite), fh));
-            } while (result == 0 && errno == EINTR);
-            if (bytesToWrite > 0 && result == 0)
-                result = -1;
-        } else {
-            do {
-                // Unbuffered stdio mode.
-                result = QT_WRITE(fd, data + written, bytesToWrite);
-            } while (result == -1 && errno == EINTR);
-        }
-        if (result > 0)
-            written += qint64(result);
-    } while (written < len && result > 0);
-
-    // If we read anything, return that with success. Otherwise, set an error,
-    // and return the last return value.
-    if (result > 0)
-        return written;
-    q->setError(errno == ENOSPC ? QFile::ResourceError : QFile::WriteError, qt_error_string(errno));
-    return result;
+    if (len < 0 || len != qint64(size_t(len))) {
+        q->setError(QFile::WriteError, qt_error_string(EINVAL));
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    qint64 writtenBytes = 0;
+
+    if (fh) {
+        // Buffered stdlib mode.
+
+        size_t result;
+        bool eof;
+        do {
+            result = fwrite(data + writtenBytes, 1, size_t(len - writtenBytes), fh);
+            writtenBytes += result;
+            eof = feof(fh);
+        } while (!eof && (result == 0 ? errno == EINTR : writtenBytes < len));
+
+    } else if (fd != -1) {
+        // Unbuffered stdio mode.
+
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+        int result;
+#else
+        ssize_t result;
+#endif
+        do {
+            result = QT_WRITE(fd, data + writtenBytes, size_t(len - writtenBytes));
+        } while ((result == -1 && errno == EINTR)
+                || (result > 0 && (writtenBytes += result) < len));
+    }
+
+    if (writtenBytes == 0) {
+        writtenBytes = -1;
+        q->setError(errno == ENOSPC ? QFile::ResourceError : QFile::WriteError, qt_error_string(errno));
+    }
+
+    return writtenBytes;
 }
 
 /*!