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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6 TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
9 3.1
10 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
11 and decreased memory usage.
12 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
13 but seems more correct.
14 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
15 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
16 requiring a thread switch.
17 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
18 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
19
20 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
21 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
22
23 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
24 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
25 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
26 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
27
28 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
29 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
30 (sic!) versions.
31
32 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
33 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
34 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
35 is stupid.
36 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
37 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
38 not to get initialised properly.
39
40 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
41 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
42 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
43 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
44 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
45 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
46
47 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
48 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
49 - bring back working fchmod.
50 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
51 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
52
53 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
54 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
55 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
56 - do not try to link against -lrt.
57 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
58
59 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
60 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
61 - switched to using libeio.
62 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
63 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
64 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
65 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
66
67 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
68 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
69 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
70 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
71 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
72
73 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
74 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
75 also display files given on the commandline.
76 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
77 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
78 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
79 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
80 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
81 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
82 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
83
84 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
85 - added aio_sync.
86 - added aio_pathsync.
87 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
88
89 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
90 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
91 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
92 (see the manpage for details).
93 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
94 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
95 - minor code cleanups.
96
97 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
98 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
99 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
100 work sensibly for the very first time.
101
102 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
103 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
104 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
105 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
106 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
107
108 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
109 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
110 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
111 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
112 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
113 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
114 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
115 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
116 have a larger range then.
117 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
118 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
119 - readahead emulation now returns something.
120 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
121 (should never happen, though).
122 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
123 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
124 too many functions with crashing versions.
125
126 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
127 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
128
129 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
130 - added aio_rmtree.
131 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
132 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
133 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
134 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
135 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
136
137 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
138 - added aio_load.
139
140 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
141 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
142 or crashes.
143
144 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
145 - minor doc updates.
146 - minor cleanups.
147 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
148 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
149
150 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
151 - minor doc updates.
152 - added aio_readlink.
153 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
154 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
155 - reduced size of aio request structure.
156 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
157 do not leak request in that case, either.
158
159 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
160 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
161 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
162 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
163 it would have to copy files manually.
164 - doc updates.
165 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
166 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
167 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
168 - some tuning applied to random places.
169 - add aio_mknod.
170
171 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
172 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
173 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
174 - aio requests can be cancelled.
175 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
176 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
177 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
178 into composite requests.
179 - generator interface for groups.
180 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
181 - major documentation improvements.
182 - very minor bugfixes.
183 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
184 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
185 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
186 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
187 putting them onto the stack.
188 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
189 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
190 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
191 - warn about broken perl malloc.
192 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
193 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
194 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
195
196 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
197 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
198
199 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
200 - codename "jost"
201 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
202 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
203 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
204
205 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
206 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
207 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
208
209 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
210 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
211 in a runtime error.
212
213 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
214 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
215 - added AnyEvent example.
216
217 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
218 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
219 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
220 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
221 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
222 wasting memory).
223
224 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
225 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
226 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
227 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
228 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
229 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
230
231 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
232 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
233 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
234 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
235 - abort when the configure script fails.
236
237 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
238 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
239 deadlocks.
240
241 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
242 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
243 eating them.
244 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
245 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
246 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
247 length after reading.
248 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
249 from the parent.
250 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
251 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
252 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
253 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
254 scalar for better error reporting.
255
256 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
257 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
258 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
259 the external filename encoding first.
260 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
261 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
262 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
263 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
264 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
265 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
266 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
267 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
268 error catching.
269
270 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
271 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
272 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
273 feedback yet).
274 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
275 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
276 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
277 from Linux::AIO.
278 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
279 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
280 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
281 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
282 the fd to an fh.
283 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
284 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
285 properly encode your pathnames.
286
287 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
288 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
289 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
290 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
291 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
292
293 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
294 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
295 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
296 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
297 from Linux::AIO.
298 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
299 does not implement pread/pwrite).
300 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
301
302 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
303 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
304 need it anyway.
305 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
306 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
307
308 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
309 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
310 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
311
312 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
313 - restructured manpage.
314 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
315 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
316 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
317
318 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
319 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
320 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
321 communications for most requests and responses.
322
323 0.1
324 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
325