Merge branch 'main' into fix-auto-merge-conflict-15412

Author: sameerz

sql-plugin/src/main/java/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/fileio/RapidsInputFiles.java

@@ -35,16 +35,11 @@ public static boolean isS3PerfEnabled() {
         return PerfIO.isS3PerfEnabled();
     }
     /**
-     * True iff {@code spark.rapids.perfio.gcs.enabled} is set to {@code true} on
-     * the active SparkConf. Returns false when no {@link SparkEnv} is initialized
-     * (e.g. before driver bring-up) so callers default to the non-PerfIO path.
+     * True iff PerfIO initialized GCS support on this executor. Returns false until
+     * PerfIO is initialized.
      */
     public static boolean isGCSPerfEnabled() {
-        SparkEnv env = SparkEnv.get();
-        if (env == null) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        return env.conf().getBoolean(PerfIOConf.GCSPERF_ENABLED().key(), false);
+        return PerfIO.isGCSPerfEnabled();
     }
 
 }