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