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