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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? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8 TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless.
9
10 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
11 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
12 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
13 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
14 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
15 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
16 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
17 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
18 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
19 but should not have been.
20 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
21 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
22 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
23
24 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
25 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
26 rushed 3.22 release.
27
28 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
29 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
30 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
31
32 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
33 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
34 - install bin/treescan by default.
35 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
36 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
37 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
38 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
39 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
40 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
41 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
42
43 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
44 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
45 not restore the file offset.
46 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
47 the names in various ways.
48 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
49 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
50 process. no more!
51 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
52
53 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
54 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
55 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
56 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
57
58 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
59 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
60 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
61
62 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
63 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
64 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
65
66 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
67 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
68 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
69
70 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
71 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
72 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
73 has added something to the group or not.
74
75 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
76 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
77 and decreased memory usage.
78 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
79 but seems more correct.
80 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
81 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
82 requiring a thread switch.
83 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
84 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
85
86 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
87 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
88
89 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
90 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
91 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
92 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
93
94 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
95 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
96 (sic!) versions.
97
98 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
99 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
100 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
101 is stupid.
102 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
103 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
104 not to get initialised properly.
105
106 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
107 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
108 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
109 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
110 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
111 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
112
113 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
114 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
115 - bring back working fchmod.
116 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
117 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
118
119 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
120 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
121 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
122 - do not try to link against -lrt.
123 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
124
125 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
126 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
127 - switched to using libeio.
128 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
129 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
130 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
131 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
132
133 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
134 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
135 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
136 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
137 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
138
139 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
140 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
141 also display files given on the commandline.
142 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
143 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
144 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
145 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
146 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
147 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
148 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
149
150 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
151 - added aio_sync.
152 - added aio_pathsync.
153 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
154
155 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
156 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
157 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
158 (see the manpage for details).
159 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
160 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
161 - minor code cleanups.
162
163 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
164 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
165 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
166 work sensibly for the very first time.
167
168 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
169 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
170 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
171 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
172 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
173
174 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
175 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
176 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
177 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
178 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
179 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
180 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
181 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
182 have a larger range then.
183 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
184 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
185 - readahead emulation now returns something.
186 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
187 (should never happen, though).
188 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
189 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
190 too many functions with crashing versions.
191
192 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
193 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
194
195 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
196 - added aio_rmtree.
197 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
198 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
199 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
200 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
201 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
202
203 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
204 - added aio_load.
205
206 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
207 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
208 or crashes.
209
210 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
211 - minor doc updates.
212 - minor cleanups.
213 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
214 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
215
216 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
217 - minor doc updates.
218 - added aio_readlink.
219 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
220 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
221 - reduced size of aio request structure.
222 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
223 do not leak request in that case, either.
224
225 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
226 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
227 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
228 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
229 it would have to copy files manually.
230 - doc updates.
231 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
232 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
233 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
234 - some tuning applied to random places.
235 - add aio_mknod.
236
237 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
238 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
239 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
240 - aio requests can be cancelled.
241 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
242 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
243 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
244 into composite requests.
245 - generator interface for groups.
246 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
247 - major documentation improvements.
248 - very minor bugfixes.
249 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
250 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
251 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
252 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
253 putting them onto the stack.
254 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
255 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
256 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
257 - warn about broken perl malloc.
258 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
259 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
260 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
261
262 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
263 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
264
265 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
266 - codename "jost"
267 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
268 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
269 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
270
271 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
272 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
273 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
274
275 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
276 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
277 in a runtime error.
278
279 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
280 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
281 - added AnyEvent example.
282
283 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
284 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
285 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
286 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
287 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
288 wasting memory).
289
290 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
291 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
292 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
293 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
294 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
295 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
296
297 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
298 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
299 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
300 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
301 - abort when the configure script fails.
302
303 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
304 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
305 deadlocks.
306
307 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
308 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
309 eating them.
310 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
311 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
312 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
313 length after reading.
314 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
315 from the parent.
316 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
317 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
318 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
319 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
320 scalar for better error reporting.
321
322 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
323 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
324 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
325 the external filename encoding first.
326 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
327 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
328 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
329 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
330 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
331 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
332 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
333 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
334 error catching.
335
336 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
337 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
338 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
339 feedback yet).
340 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
341 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
342 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
343 from Linux::AIO.
344 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
345 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
346 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
347 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
348 the fd to an fh.
349 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
350 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
351 properly encode your pathnames.
352
353 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
354 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
355 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
356 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
357 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
358
359 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
360 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
361 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
362 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
363 from Linux::AIO.
364 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
365 does not implement pread/pwrite).
366 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
367
368 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
369 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
370 need it anyway.
371 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
372 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
373
374 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
375 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
376 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
377
378 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
379 - restructured manpage.
380 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
381 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
382 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
383
384 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
385 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
386 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
387 communications for most requests and responses.
388
389 0.1
390 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
391