diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
index 7fbaac8457..cef9d72b3a 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.c
+++ b/block/qcow2.c
@@ -4221,10 +4221,8 @@ fail:
     return ret;
 }
 
-/* XXX: put compressed sectors first, then all the cluster aligned
-   tables to avoid losing bytes in alignment */
 static coroutine_fn int
-qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_part(BlockDriverState *bs,
+qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_task(BlockDriverState *bs,
                                  uint64_t offset, uint64_t bytes,
                                  QEMUIOVector *qiov, size_t qiov_offset)
 {
@@ -4234,32 +4232,11 @@ qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_part(BlockDriverState *bs,
     uint8_t *buf, *out_buf;
     uint64_t cluster_offset;
 
-    if (has_data_file(bs)) {
-        return -ENOTSUP;
-    }
-
-    if (bytes == 0) {
-        /* align end of file to a sector boundary to ease reading with
-           sector based I/Os */
-        int64_t len = bdrv_getlength(bs->file->bs);
-        if (len < 0) {
-            return len;
-        }
-        return bdrv_co_truncate(bs->file, len, false, PREALLOC_MODE_OFF, NULL);
-    }
-
-    if (offset_into_cluster(s, offset)) {
-        return -EINVAL;
-    }
+    assert(bytes == s->cluster_size || (bytes < s->cluster_size &&
+           (offset + bytes == bs->total_sectors << BDRV_SECTOR_BITS)));
 
     buf = qemu_blockalign(bs, s->cluster_size);
-    if (bytes != s->cluster_size) {
-        if (bytes > s->cluster_size ||
-            offset + bytes != bs->total_sectors << BDRV_SECTOR_BITS)
-        {
-            qemu_vfree(buf);
-            return -EINVAL;
-        }
+    if (bytes < s->cluster_size) {
         /* Zero-pad last write if image size is not cluster aligned */
         memset(buf + bytes, 0, s->cluster_size - bytes);
     }
@@ -4308,6 +4285,77 @@ fail:
     return ret;
 }
 
+static coroutine_fn int qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_task_entry(AioTask *task)
+{
+    Qcow2AioTask *t = container_of(task, Qcow2AioTask, task);
+
+    assert(!t->cluster_type && !t->l2meta);
+
+    return qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_task(t->bs, t->offset, t->bytes, t->qiov,
+                                            t->qiov_offset);
+}
+
+/*
+ * XXX: put compressed sectors first, then all the cluster aligned
+ * tables to avoid losing bytes in alignment
+ */
+static coroutine_fn int
+qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_part(BlockDriverState *bs,
+                                 uint64_t offset, uint64_t bytes,
+                                 QEMUIOVector *qiov, size_t qiov_offset)
+{
+    BDRVQcow2State *s = bs->opaque;
+    AioTaskPool *aio = NULL;
+    int ret = 0;
+
+    if (has_data_file(bs)) {
+        return -ENOTSUP;
+    }
+
+    if (bytes == 0) {
+        /*
+         * align end of file to a sector boundary to ease reading with
+         * sector based I/Os
+         */
+        int64_t len = bdrv_getlength(bs->file->bs);
+        if (len < 0) {
+            return len;
+        }
+        return bdrv_co_truncate(bs->file, len, false, PREALLOC_MODE_OFF, NULL);
+    }
+
+    if (offset_into_cluster(s, offset)) {
+        return -EINVAL;
+    }
+
+    while (bytes && aio_task_pool_status(aio) == 0) {
+        uint64_t chunk_size = MIN(bytes, s->cluster_size);
+
+        if (!aio && chunk_size != bytes) {
+            aio = aio_task_pool_new(QCOW2_MAX_WORKERS);
+        }
+
+        ret = qcow2_add_task(bs, aio, qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed_task_entry,
+                             0, 0, offset, chunk_size, qiov, qiov_offset, NULL);
+        if (ret < 0) {
+            break;
+        }
+        qiov_offset += chunk_size;
+        offset += chunk_size;
+        bytes -= chunk_size;
+    }
+
+    if (aio) {
+        aio_task_pool_wait_all(aio);
+        if (ret == 0) {
+            ret = aio_task_pool_status(aio);
+        }
+        g_free(aio);
+    }
+
+    return ret;
+}
+
 static int coroutine_fn
 qcow2_co_preadv_compressed(BlockDriverState *bs,
                            uint64_t file_cluster_offset,