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Revision: 1.213
Committed: Sat Jan 2 14:24:32 2010 UTC (14 years, 5 months ago) by root
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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 TODO: IO::AIO::mmap? aio_mincore?
10
11 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
12 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
13 - clarify cancel_subs description.
14 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
15 from the sendfile call.
16 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
17 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
18
19 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
20 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
21 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
22 hash lookups.
23
24 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
25 - use common::sense.
26 - use common schmorp.h header.
27 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
28 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
29 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
30
31 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
32 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
33
34 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
35 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
36 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
37 way. might help other os's too.
38
39 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
40 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
41 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
42 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
43 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
44 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
45 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
46 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
47 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
48 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
49 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
50 but should not have been.
51 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
52 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
53
54 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
55 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
56 rushed 3.22 release.
57
58 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
59 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
60 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
61
62 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
63 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
64 - install bin/treescan by default.
65 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
66 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
67 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
68 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
69 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
70 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
71 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
72
73 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
74 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
75 not restore the file offset.
76 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
77 the names in various ways.
78 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
79 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
80 process. no more!
81 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
82
83 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
84 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
85 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
86 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
87
88 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
89 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
90 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
91
92 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
93 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
94 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
95
96 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
97 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
98 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
99
100 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
101 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
102 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
103 has added something to the group or not.
104
105 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
106 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
107 and decreased memory usage.
108 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
109 but seems more correct.
110 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
111 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
112 requiring a thread switch.
113 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
114 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
115
116 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
117 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
118
119 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
120 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
121 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
122 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
123
124 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
125 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
126 (sic!) versions.
127
128 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
129 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
130 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
131 is stupid.
132 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
133 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
134 not to get initialised properly.
135
136 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
137 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
138 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
139 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
140 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
141 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
142
143 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
144 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
145 - bring back working fchmod.
146 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
147 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
148
149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
150 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
151 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
152 - do not try to link against -lrt.
153 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
154
155 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
156 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
157 - switched to using libeio.
158 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
159 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
160 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
161 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
162
163 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
164 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
165 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
166 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
167 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
168
169 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
170 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
171 also display files given on the commandline.
172 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
173 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
174 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
175 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
176 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
177 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
178 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
179
180 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
181 - added aio_sync.
182 - added aio_pathsync.
183 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
184
185 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
186 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
187 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
188 (see the manpage for details).
189 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
190 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
191 - minor code cleanups.
192
193 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
194 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
195 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
196 work sensibly for the very first time.
197
198 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
199 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
200 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
201 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
202 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
203
204 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
205 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
206 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
207 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
208 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
209 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
210 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
211 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
212 have a larger range then.
213 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
214 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
215 - readahead emulation now returns something.
216 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
217 (should never happen, though).
218 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
219 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
220 too many functions with crashing versions.
221
222 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
223 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
224
225 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
226 - added aio_rmtree.
227 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
228 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
229 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
230 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
231 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
232
233 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
234 - added aio_load.
235
236 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
237 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
238 or crashes.
239
240 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
241 - minor doc updates.
242 - minor cleanups.
243 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
244 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
245
246 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
247 - minor doc updates.
248 - added aio_readlink.
249 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
250 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
251 - reduced size of aio request structure.
252 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
253 do not leak request in that case, either.
254
255 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
256 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
257 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
258 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
259 it would have to copy files manually.
260 - doc updates.
261 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
262 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
263 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
264 - some tuning applied to random places.
265 - add aio_mknod.
266
267 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
268 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
269 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
270 - aio requests can be cancelled.
271 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
272 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
273 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
274 into composite requests.
275 - generator interface for groups.
276 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
277 - major documentation improvements.
278 - very minor bugfixes.
279 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
280 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
281 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
282 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
283 putting them onto the stack.
284 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
285 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
286 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
287 - warn about broken perl malloc.
288 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
289 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
290 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
291
292 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
293 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
294
295 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
296 - codename "jost"
297 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
298 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
299 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
300
301 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
302 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
303 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
304
305 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
306 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
307 in a runtime error.
308
309 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
310 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
311 - added AnyEvent example.
312
313 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
314 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
315 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
316 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
317 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
318 wasting memory).
319
320 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
321 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
322 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
323 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
324 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
325 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
326
327 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
328 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
329 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
330 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
331 - abort when the configure script fails.
332
333 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
334 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
335 deadlocks.
336
337 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
338 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
339 eating them.
340 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
341 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
342 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
343 length after reading.
344 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
345 from the parent.
346 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
347 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
348 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
349 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
350 scalar for better error reporting.
351
352 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
353 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
354 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
355 the external filename encoding first.
356 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
357 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
358 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
359 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
360 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
361 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
362 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
363 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
364 error catching.
365
366 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
367 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
368 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
369 feedback yet).
370 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
371 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
372 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
373 from Linux::AIO.
374 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
375 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
376 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
377 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
378 the fd to an fh.
379 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
380 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
381 properly encode your pathnames.
382
383 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
384 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
385 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
386 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
387 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
388
389 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
390 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
391 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
392 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
393 from Linux::AIO.
394 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
395 does not implement pread/pwrite).
396 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
397
398 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
399 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
400 need it anyway.
401 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
402 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
403
404 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
405 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
406 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
407
408 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
409 - restructured manpage.
410 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
411 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
412 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
413
414 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
415 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
416 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
417 communications for most requests and responses.
418
419 0.1
420 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
421