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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 - use common::sense.
11 - use common schmorp.h header.
12 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
13 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
14 - use poll not seelct on posix platforms.
15
16 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
17 - more OS X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
18
19 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
20 - os x of course claims posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise. try to work
21 around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish way. might help
22 other os's too.
23
24 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
25 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
26 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
27 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
28 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
29 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
30 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
31 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
32 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
33 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
34 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
35 but should not have been.
36 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
37 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
38
39 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
40 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
41 rushed 3.22 release.
42
43 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
44 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
45 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
46
47 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
48 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
49 - install bin/treescan by default.
50 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
51 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
52 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
53 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
54 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
55 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
56 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
57
58 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
59 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
60 not restore the file offset.
61 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
62 the names in various ways.
63 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
64 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
65 process. no more!
66 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
67
68 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
69 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
70 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
71 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
72
73 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
74 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
75 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
76
77 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
78 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
79 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
80
81 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
82 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
83 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
84
85 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
86 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
87 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
88 has added something to the group or not.
89
90 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
91 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
92 and decreased memory usage.
93 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
94 but seems more correct.
95 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
96 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
97 requiring a thread switch.
98 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
99 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
100
101 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
102 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
103
104 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
105 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
106 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
107 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
108
109 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
110 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
111 (sic!) versions.
112
113 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
114 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
115 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
116 is stupid.
117 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
118 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
119 not to get initialised properly.
120
121 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
122 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
123 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
124 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
125 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
126 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
127
128 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
129 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
130 - bring back working fchmod.
131 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
132 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
133
134 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
135 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
136 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
137 - do not try to link against -lrt.
138 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
139
140 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
141 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
142 - switched to using libeio.
143 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
144 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
145 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
146 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
147
148 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
149 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
150 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
151 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
152 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
153
154 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
155 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
156 also display files given on the commandline.
157 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
158 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
159 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
160 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
161 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
162 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
163 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
164
165 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
166 - added aio_sync.
167 - added aio_pathsync.
168 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
169
170 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
171 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
172 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
173 (see the manpage for details).
174 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
175 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
176 - minor code cleanups.
177
178 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
179 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
180 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
181 work sensibly for the very first time.
182
183 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
184 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
185 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
186 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
187 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
188
189 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
190 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
191 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
192 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
193 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
194 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
195 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
196 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
197 have a larger range then.
198 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
199 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
200 - readahead emulation now returns something.
201 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
202 (should never happen, though).
203 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
204 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
205 too many functions with crashing versions.
206
207 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
208 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
209
210 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
211 - added aio_rmtree.
212 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
213 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
214 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
215 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
216 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
217
218 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
219 - added aio_load.
220
221 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
222 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
223 or crashes.
224
225 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
226 - minor doc updates.
227 - minor cleanups.
228 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
229 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
230
231 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
232 - minor doc updates.
233 - added aio_readlink.
234 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
235 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
236 - reduced size of aio request structure.
237 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
238 do not leak request in that case, either.
239
240 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
241 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
242 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
243 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
244 it would have to copy files manually.
245 - doc updates.
246 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
247 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
248 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
249 - some tuning applied to random places.
250 - add aio_mknod.
251
252 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
253 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
254 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
255 - aio requests can be cancelled.
256 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
257 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
258 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
259 into composite requests.
260 - generator interface for groups.
261 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
262 - major documentation improvements.
263 - very minor bugfixes.
264 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
265 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
266 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
267 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
268 putting them onto the stack.
269 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
270 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
271 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
272 - warn about broken perl malloc.
273 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
274 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
275 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
276
277 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
278 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
279
280 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
281 - codename "jost"
282 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
283 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
284 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
285
286 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
287 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
288 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
289
290 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
291 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
292 in a runtime error.
293
294 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
295 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
296 - added AnyEvent example.
297
298 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
299 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
300 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
301 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
302 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
303 wasting memory).
304
305 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
306 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
307 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
308 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
309 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
310 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
311
312 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
313 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
314 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
315 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
316 - abort when the configure script fails.
317
318 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
319 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
320 deadlocks.
321
322 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
323 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
324 eating them.
325 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
326 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
327 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
328 length after reading.
329 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
330 from the parent.
331 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
332 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
333 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
334 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
335 scalar for better error reporting.
336
337 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
338 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
339 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
340 the external filename encoding first.
341 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
342 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
343 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
344 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
345 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
346 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
347 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
348 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
349 error catching.
350
351 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
352 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
353 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
354 feedback yet).
355 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
356 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
357 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
358 from Linux::AIO.
359 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
360 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
361 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
362 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
363 the fd to an fh.
364 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
365 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
366 properly encode your pathnames.
367
368 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
369 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
370 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
371 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
372 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
373
374 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
375 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
376 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
377 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
378 from Linux::AIO.
379 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
380 does not implement pread/pwrite).
381 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
382
383 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
384 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
385 need it anyway.
386 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
387 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
388
389 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
390 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
391 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
392
393 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
394 - restructured manpage.
395 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
396 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
397 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
398
399 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
400 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
401 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
402 communications for most requests and responses.
403
404 0.1
405 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
406