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1 root 1.31 Revision history for IO::AIO
2 root 1.30
3 root 1.59 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 root 1.114 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5 root 1.106 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6 root 1.123 TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 root 1.136 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8 root 1.100
9 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
10     - bring back working fchmod.
11 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
12     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
13 root 1.150
14 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
15     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
16 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
17     - do not try to link against -lrt.
18 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
19    
20 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
21 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
22     - switched to using libeio.
23     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
24     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
25     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
26     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
27 root 1.143
28 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
29 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
30     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
31 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
32     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
33 root 1.141
34 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
35 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
36     also display files given on the commandline.
37 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
38     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
39 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
40     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
41     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
42 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
43     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
44 root 1.137
45 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
46 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
47 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
48 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
49 root 1.134
50 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
51     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
52     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
53     (see the manpage for details).
54     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
55     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
56     - minor code cleanups.
57    
58 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
59 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
60     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
61     work sensibly for the very first time.
62    
63 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
64 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
65     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
66     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
67     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
68    
69 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
70 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
71     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
72 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
73     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
74 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
75     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
76 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
77 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
78 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
79 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
80     - readahead emulation now returns something.
81 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
82     (should never happen, though).
83 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
84     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
85     too many functions with crashing versions.
86 root 1.120
87 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
88     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
89    
90 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
91 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
92 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
93 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
94 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
95     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
96 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
97 root 1.114
98 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
99 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
100    
101 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
102     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
103     or crashes.
104    
105 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
106 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
107 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
108     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
109 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
110 root 1.107
111 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
112 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
113 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
114     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
115     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
116 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
117 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
118 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
119 root 1.94
120 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
121 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
122     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
123 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
124     it would have to copy files manually.
125 root 1.98 - doc updates.
126 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
127 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
128 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
129 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
130 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
131 root 1.59
132 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
133 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
134 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
135 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
136 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
137 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
138 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
139     into composite requests.
140     - generator interface for groups.
141 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
142 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
143     - very minor bugfixes.
144 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
145 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
146 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
147 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
148     putting them onto the stack.
149     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
150     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
151 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
152 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
153 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
154     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
155     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
156 root 1.68
157 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
158 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
159    
160 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
161     - codename "jost"
162     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
163     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
164     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
165 root 1.63
166 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
167 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
168     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
169    
170 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
171     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
172     in a runtime error.
173    
174 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
175 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
176 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
177    
178 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
179 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
180 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
181 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
182     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
183     wasting memory).
184    
185 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
186     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
187 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
188     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
189     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
190     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
191 root 1.46
192 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
193 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
194 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
195 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
196 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
197 root 1.41
198 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
199 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
200 root 1.40 deadlocks.
201    
202 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
203 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
204     eating them.
205 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
206     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
207 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
208     length after reading.
209     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
210     from the parent.
211     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
212     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
213     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
214 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
215     scalar for better error reporting.
216 root 1.33
217 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
218     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
219 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
220     the external filename encoding first.
221 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
222 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
223     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
224     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
225     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
226 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
227     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
228 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
229     error catching.
230 root 1.1
231 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
232 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
233 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
234 root 1.23 feedback yet).
235 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
236     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
237 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
238     from Linux::AIO.
239 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
240     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
241 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
242 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
243     the fd to an fh.
244 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
245     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
246     properly encode your pathnames.
247 root 1.18
248 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
249     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
250 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
251     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
252     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
253    
254 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
255     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
256     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
257 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
258     from Linux::AIO.
259     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
260     does not implement pread/pwrite).
261     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
262    
263 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
264 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
265     need it anyway.
266     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
267     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
268    
269 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
270 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
271 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
272 root 1.8
273 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
274 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
275 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
276     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
277     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
278 root 1.5
279 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
280 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
281     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
282 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
283 root 1.2
284 root 1.1 0.1
285     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
286