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Revision: 1.181
Committed: Tue Apr 21 20:06:05 2009 UTC (15 years, 1 month ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_19
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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 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
10 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
11 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
12 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
13
14 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
15 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
16 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
17
18 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
19 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
20 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
21
22 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
23 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
24 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
25
26 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
27 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
28 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
29 has added something to the group or not.
30
31 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
32 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
33 and decreased memory usage.
34 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
35 but seems more correct.
36 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
37 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
38 requiring a thread switch.
39 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
40 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
41
42 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
43 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
44
45 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
46 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
47 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
48 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
49
50 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
51 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
52 (sic!) versions.
53
54 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
55 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
56 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
57 is stupid.
58 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
59 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
60 not to get initialised properly.
61
62 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
63 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
64 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
65 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
66 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
67 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
68
69 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
70 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
71 - bring back working fchmod.
72 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
73 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
74
75 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
76 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
77 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
78 - do not try to link against -lrt.
79 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
80
81 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
82 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
83 - switched to using libeio.
84 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
85 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
86 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
87 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
88
89 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
90 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
91 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
92 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
93 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
94
95 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
96 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
97 also display files given on the commandline.
98 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
99 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
100 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
101 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
102 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
103 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
104 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
105
106 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
107 - added aio_sync.
108 - added aio_pathsync.
109 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
110
111 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
112 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
113 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
114 (see the manpage for details).
115 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
116 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
117 - minor code cleanups.
118
119 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
120 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
121 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
122 work sensibly for the very first time.
123
124 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
125 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
126 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
127 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
128 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
129
130 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
131 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
132 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
133 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
134 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
135 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
136 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
137 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
138 have a larger range then.
139 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
140 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
141 - readahead emulation now returns something.
142 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
143 (should never happen, though).
144 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
145 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
146 too many functions with crashing versions.
147
148 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
149 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
150
151 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
152 - added aio_rmtree.
153 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
154 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
155 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
156 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
157 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
158
159 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
160 - added aio_load.
161
162 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
163 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
164 or crashes.
165
166 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
167 - minor doc updates.
168 - minor cleanups.
169 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
170 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
171
172 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
173 - minor doc updates.
174 - added aio_readlink.
175 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
176 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
177 - reduced size of aio request structure.
178 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
179 do not leak request in that case, either.
180
181 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
182 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
183 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
184 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
185 it would have to copy files manually.
186 - doc updates.
187 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
188 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
189 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
190 - some tuning applied to random places.
191 - add aio_mknod.
192
193 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
194 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
195 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
196 - aio requests can be cancelled.
197 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
198 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
199 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
200 into composite requests.
201 - generator interface for groups.
202 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
203 - major documentation improvements.
204 - very minor bugfixes.
205 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
206 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
207 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
208 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
209 putting them onto the stack.
210 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
211 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
212 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
213 - warn about broken perl malloc.
214 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
215 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
216 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
217
218 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
219 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
220
221 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
222 - codename "jost"
223 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
224 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
225 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
226
227 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
228 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
229 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
230
231 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
232 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
233 in a runtime error.
234
235 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
236 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
237 - added AnyEvent example.
238
239 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
240 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
241 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
242 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
243 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
244 wasting memory).
245
246 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
247 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
248 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
249 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
250 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
251 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
252
253 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
254 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
255 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
256 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
257 - abort when the configure script fails.
258
259 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
260 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
261 deadlocks.
262
263 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
264 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
265 eating them.
266 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
267 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
268 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
269 length after reading.
270 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
271 from the parent.
272 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
273 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
274 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
275 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
276 scalar for better error reporting.
277
278 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
279 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
280 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
281 the external filename encoding first.
282 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
283 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
284 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
285 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
286 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
287 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
288 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
289 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
290 error catching.
291
292 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
293 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
294 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
295 feedback yet).
296 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
297 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
298 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
299 from Linux::AIO.
300 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
301 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
302 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
303 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
304 the fd to an fh.
305 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
306 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
307 properly encode your pathnames.
308
309 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
310 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
311 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
312 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
313 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
314
315 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
316 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
317 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
318 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
319 from Linux::AIO.
320 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
321 does not implement pread/pwrite).
322 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
323
324 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
325 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
326 need it anyway.
327 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
328 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
329
330 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
331 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
332 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
333
334 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
335 - restructured manpage.
336 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
337 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
338 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
339
340 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
341 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
342 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
343 communications for most requests and responses.
344
345 0.1
346 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
347