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Revision: 1.152
Committed: Mon May 12 00:32:42 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
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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 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
10 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
11     - bring back working fchmod.
12 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
13     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
14 root 1.150
15 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
16     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
17 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
18     - do not try to link against -lrt.
19 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
20    
21 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
22 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
23     - switched to using libeio.
24     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
25     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
26     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
27     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
28 root 1.143
29 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
30 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
31     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
32 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
33     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
34 root 1.141
35 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
36 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
37     also display files given on the commandline.
38 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
39     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
40 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
41     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
42     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
43 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
44     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
45 root 1.137
46 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
47 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
48 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
49 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
50 root 1.134
51 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
52     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
53     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
54     (see the manpage for details).
55     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
56     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
57     - minor code cleanups.
58    
59 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
60 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
61     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
62     work sensibly for the very first time.
63    
64 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
65 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
66     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
67     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
68     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
69    
70 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
71 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
72     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
73 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
74     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
75 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
76     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
77 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
78 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
79 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
80 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
81     - readahead emulation now returns something.
82 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
83     (should never happen, though).
84 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
85     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
86     too many functions with crashing versions.
87 root 1.120
88 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
89     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
90    
91 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
92 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
93 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
94 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
95 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
96     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
97 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
98 root 1.114
99 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
100 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
101    
102 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
103     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
104     or crashes.
105    
106 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
107 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
108 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
109     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
110 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
111 root 1.107
112 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
113 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
114 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
115     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
116     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
117 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
118 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
119 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
120 root 1.94
121 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
122 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
123     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
124 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
125     it would have to copy files manually.
126 root 1.98 - doc updates.
127 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
128 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
129 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
130 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
131 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
132 root 1.59
133 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
134 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
135 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
136 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
137 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
138 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
139 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
140     into composite requests.
141     - generator interface for groups.
142 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
143 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
144     - very minor bugfixes.
145 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
146 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
147 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
148 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
149     putting them onto the stack.
150     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
151     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
152 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
153 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
154 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
155     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
156     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
157 root 1.68
158 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
159 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
160    
161 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
162     - codename "jost"
163     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
164     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
165     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
166 root 1.63
167 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
168 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
169     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
170    
171 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
172     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
173     in a runtime error.
174    
175 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
176 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
177 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
178    
179 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
180 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
181 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
182 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
183     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
184     wasting memory).
185    
186 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
187     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
188 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
189     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
190     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
191     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
192 root 1.46
193 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
194 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
195 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
196 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
197 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
198 root 1.41
199 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
200 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
201 root 1.40 deadlocks.
202    
203 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
204 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
205     eating them.
206 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
207     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
208 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
209     length after reading.
210     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
211     from the parent.
212     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
213     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
214     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
215 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
216     scalar for better error reporting.
217 root 1.33
218 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
219     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
220 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
221     the external filename encoding first.
222 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
223 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
224     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
225     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
226     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
227 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
228     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
229 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
230     error catching.
231 root 1.1
232 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
233 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
234 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
235 root 1.23 feedback yet).
236 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
237     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
238 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
239     from Linux::AIO.
240 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
241     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
242 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
243 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
244     the fd to an fh.
245 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
246     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
247     properly encode your pathnames.
248 root 1.18
249 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
250     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
251 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
252     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
253     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
254    
255 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
256     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
257     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
258 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
259     from Linux::AIO.
260     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
261     does not implement pread/pwrite).
262     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
263    
264 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
265 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
266     need it anyway.
267     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
268     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
269    
270 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
271 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
272 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
273 root 1.8
274 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
275 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
276 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
277     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
278     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
279 root 1.5
280 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
281 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
282     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
283 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
284 root 1.2
285 root 1.1 0.1
286     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
287