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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 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
10    
11 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
12 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
13     - bring back working fchmod.
14 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
15     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
16 root 1.150
17 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
18     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
19 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
20     - do not try to link against -lrt.
21 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
22    
23 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
24 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
25     - switched to using libeio.
26     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
27     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
28     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
29     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
30 root 1.143
31 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
32 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
33     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
34 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
35     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
36 root 1.141
37 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
38 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
39     also display files given on the commandline.
40 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
41     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
42 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
43     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
44     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
45 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
46     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
47 root 1.137
48 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
49 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
50 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
51 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
52 root 1.134
53 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
54     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
55     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
56     (see the manpage for details).
57     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
58     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
59     - minor code cleanups.
60    
61 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
62 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
63     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
64     work sensibly for the very first time.
65    
66 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
67 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
68     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
69     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
70     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
71    
72 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
73 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
74     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
75 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
76     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
77 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
78     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
79 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
80 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
81 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
82 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
83     - readahead emulation now returns something.
84 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
85     (should never happen, though).
86 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
87     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
88     too many functions with crashing versions.
89 root 1.120
90 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
91     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
92    
93 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
94 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
95 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
96 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
97 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
98     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
99 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
100 root 1.114
101 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
102 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
103    
104 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
105     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
106     or crashes.
107    
108 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
109 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
110 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
111     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
112 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
113 root 1.107
114 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
115 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
116 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
117     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
118     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
119 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
120 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
121 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
122 root 1.94
123 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
124 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
125     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
126 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
127     it would have to copy files manually.
128 root 1.98 - doc updates.
129 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
130 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
131 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
132 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
133 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
134 root 1.59
135 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
136 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
137 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
138 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
139 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
140 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
141 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
142     into composite requests.
143     - generator interface for groups.
144 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
145 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
146     - very minor bugfixes.
147 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
148 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
149 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
150 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
151     putting them onto the stack.
152     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
153     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
154 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
155 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
156 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
157     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
158     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
159 root 1.68
160 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
161 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
162    
163 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
164     - codename "jost"
165     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
166     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
167     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
168 root 1.63
169 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
170 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
171     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
172    
173 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
174     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
175     in a runtime error.
176    
177 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
178 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
179 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
180    
181 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
182 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
183 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
184 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
185     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
186     wasting memory).
187    
188 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
189     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
190 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
191     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
192     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
193     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
194 root 1.46
195 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
196 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
197 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
198 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
199 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
200 root 1.41
201 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
202 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
203 root 1.40 deadlocks.
204    
205 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
206 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
207     eating them.
208 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
209     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
210 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
211     length after reading.
212     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
213     from the parent.
214     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
215     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
216     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
217 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
218     scalar for better error reporting.
219 root 1.33
220 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
221     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
222 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
223     the external filename encoding first.
224 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
225 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
226     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
227     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
228     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
229 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
230     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
231 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
232     error catching.
233 root 1.1
234 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
235 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
236 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
237 root 1.23 feedback yet).
238 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
239     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
240 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
241     from Linux::AIO.
242 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
243     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
244 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
245 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
246     the fd to an fh.
247 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
248     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
249     properly encode your pathnames.
250 root 1.18
251 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
252     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
253 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
254     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
255     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
256    
257 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
258     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
259     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
260 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
261     from Linux::AIO.
262     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
263     does not implement pread/pwrite).
264     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
265    
266 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
267 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
268     need it anyway.
269     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
270     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
271    
272 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
273 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
274 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
275 root 1.8
276 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
277 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
278 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
279     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
280     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
281 root 1.5
282 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
283 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
284     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
285 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
286 root 1.2
287 root 1.1 0.1
288     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
289