Struct PosixBackend 

pub struct PosixBackend { /* private fields */ }

Implementations

impl PosixBackend

pub fn new(layout: Layout) -> Result<Self>

pub fn layout(&self) -> &Layout

impl PosixBackend

pub fn drop_pagecache(&self)

Test helper: drop the page cache for the layer files so subsequent reads actually hit NVMe (otherwise small tests trivially read from RAM).

posix_fadvise(DONTNEED) has no portable equivalent; on Windows the cache is dropped by reopening with FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING, which this tier deliberately does not use. A no-op there means a Windows run of the timing tests may read from RAM – which is why this is a test helper and not a correctness primitive.

Trait Implementations

impl StorageBackend for PosixBackend

fn read(&mut self, requests: &[ReadRequest], stream: u64) -> Result<()>

Synchronously fulfil all requests, returning when the corresponding HBM destinations are populated and visible on stream. The backend chooses how to schedule (blocking POSIX pread, batched io_uring, etc.). At return, the stream has been synchronised so the caller can issue subsequent kernels that depend on the data.

fn write_from_host(&mut self, key: GroupKey, src: &[u8]) -> Result<()>

One-shot sequential write — used at offload time to populate disk from a host-side K/V buffer.

fn group_layout(&self) -> GroupLayout

Immutable disk/device geometry. The default block methods below use it to fan a block op back out to the per-head path; io_uring/posix return their layout spec, Cascade delegates to its backing, RDMA returns its layout.

fn read_async(&mut self, requests: &[ReadRequest], stream: u64) -> Result<()>

Async variant of read: enqueue the tier read + H2D on stream and return WITHOUT a terminal host stream_sync. Default = the synchronous read, so file backends need no change and the on-demand path stays byte-identical.

fn read_blocks( &mut self, requests: &[BlockReadRequest], stream: u64, ) -> Result<()>

Block-granular read: fulfil each request with ONE contiguous block_bytes op instead of 2·nkv per-head reads. Same stream contract as read. The DEFAULT fans out to read via expand_blocks_to_groups, so posix/RDMA/Cascade stay correct (just un-coalesced) with no change.

fn read_blocks_async( &mut self, requests: &[BlockReadRequest], stream: u64, ) -> Result<()>

Async block-granular read — the coalesced twin of read_async for the prefetch path. DEFAULT fans out to read_async.

fn write_block_from_host( &mut self, base_key: GroupKey, src: &[u8], ) -> Result<()>

Block-granular write: ONE contiguous block_bytes op. src is exactly block_bytes laid out [K0,K1,…,K(nkv-1),V0,…,V(nkv-1)] at group_stride pitch. base_key carries the block identity (kv_head/kind ignored). DEFAULT splits src back into the 2·nkv per-head group_stride stripes and calls write_from_host per head — byte-identical on-disk image.

fn write_blocks_run( &mut self, base_key: GroupKey, run_len: usize, src: &[u8], ) -> Result<()>

Write a run of run_len strictly-consecutive same-layer blocks in ONE contiguous op. base_key carries the run’s FIRST block; src is exactly run_len · block_bytes. DEFAULT fans out to run_len write_block_from_host calls — byte- AND op-identical to the un-coalesced path (and run_len == 1 is exactly one call).

fn supports_write_run_coalescing(&self) -> bool

Whether this backend can service write_blocks_run as a single wide op. DEFAULT false: RDMA/Cascade keep the per-block fan-out, and the caller stays on the per-block write path.

fn register_landing_region(&mut self, base: u64, len: usize) -> Result<()>

Optionally pre-register [base, base+len) as the read-landing region. The RDMA backend registers it as ONE MR (per rail) so zero-copy restore reuses that lkey for every slot within it. No-op for the file backends.