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2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree 3TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? 4TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
7TODO: fix setsig 5TODO: vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
6TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
7TODO: aio_mincore?
8TODO: getxattr etc.?
9TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
10TODO: emulation for splice?
8 11
12 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
13 to quick overview.
14 - splice can corrupt data.
15
164.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
17 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
18 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
19 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
20 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
21 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
22 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
23
244.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
25 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
26 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
27 - new request aio_seek.
28 - new request aio_fiemap.
29 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
30
314.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
32 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
33 instead of -1.
34 - port to c89.
35
364.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
37 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
38
394.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
40 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
41 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
42 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
43 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
44 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
45 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
46 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
47 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
48 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
49 in aio_scandir and treescan.
50 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
51 - added --progress switch to treescan.
52
534.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
54 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
55 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
56 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
57 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
58 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
59 a timeout occured at the same time.
60 - (libeio) added realpath.
61 - (libeio) added fallocate.
62 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
63 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
64 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
65
663.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
67 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
68
693.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
70 - ecb.h was missing.
71
723.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
73 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
74 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
75 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
76 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
77 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
78 transferred...)
79 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
80 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
81 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
82 pthread and fork in perl.
83 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
84 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
85 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
86 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
87
883.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
89 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
90 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
91 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
92 flags.
93
943.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
95 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
96 - support a max_idle value of 0.
97 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
98
993.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
100 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
101 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
102 - new treescan option: --grep.
103 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
104
1053.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
106 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
107 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
108 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
109 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
110 funcitonality. ugh.
111
1123.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
113 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
114 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
115 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
116 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
117 (openbsd 4.8).
118 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
119 had string-data.
120 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
121 them.
122 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
123 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
124 user-errors better.
125 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
126
1273.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
128 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
129 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
130 Rasmus Andersson).
131 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
132 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
133 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
134 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
135 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
136
1373.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
138 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
139 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
140 kernel sources.
141 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
142 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
143 - clean up manpage.
144
1453.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
146 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
147 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
148 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
149 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
150 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
151 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
152
1533.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
154 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
155 - clarify cancel_subs description.
156 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
157 from the sendfile call.
158 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
159 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
160
1613.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
162 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
163 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
164 hash lookups.
165
1663.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
167 - use common::sense.
168 - use common schmorp.h header.
169 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
170 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
171 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
172
1733.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
174 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
175
1763.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
177 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
178 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
179 way. might help other os's too.
180
1813.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
182 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
183 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
184 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
185 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
186 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
187 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
188 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
189 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
190 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
191 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
192 but should not have been.
193 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
194 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
195
1963.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
197 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
198 rushed 3.22 release.
199
2003.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
201 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
202 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
203
2043.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
205 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
206 - install bin/treescan by default.
207 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
208 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
209 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
210 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
211 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
212 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
213 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
214
2153.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
216 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
217 not restore the file offset.
218 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
219 the names in various ways.
220 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
221 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
222 process. no more!
223 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
224
2253.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
226 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
227 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
228 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
229
2303.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
231 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
232 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
233
2343.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
235 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
236 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
237
2383.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
239 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
240 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
241
2423.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
243 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
244 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
245 has added something to the group or not.
246
2473.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
248 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
249 and decreased memory usage.
250 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
251 but seems more correct.
252 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
253 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
254 requiring a thread switch.
255 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
256 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
257
2583.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
259 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
260
2613.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
262 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
263 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
264 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
265
2663.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
267 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
268 (sic!) versions.
269
2703.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
271 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
272 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
273 is stupid.
274 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
275 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
276 not to get initialised properly.
277
2783.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
279 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
280 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
281 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
282 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
283 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
284
2853.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
286 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
287 - bring back working fchmod.
288 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
289 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
290
2913.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
292 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
293 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
294 - do not try to link against -lrt.
295 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
296
2973.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
298 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
299 - switched to using libeio.
300 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
301 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
302 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
303 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
304
3052.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
306 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
307 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
308 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
309 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
310
3112.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
312 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
313 also display files given on the commandline.
314 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
315 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
316 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
317 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
318 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
319 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
320 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
321
3222.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
323 - added aio_sync.
324 - added aio_pathsync.
325 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
326
3272.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
328 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
329 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
330 (see the manpage for details).
331 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
332 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
333 - minor code cleanups.
334
3352.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
336 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
337 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
338 work sensibly for the very first time.
339
3402.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
341 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
342 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
343 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
344 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
345
3462.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
347 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
348 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
349 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
350 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
351 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
352 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
353 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
354 have a larger range then.
355 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
356 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
357 - readahead emulation now returns something.
358 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
359 (should never happen, though).
360 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
361 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
362 too many functions with crashing versions.
363
3642.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
365 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
366
3672.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
9 - added aio_rmtree. 368 - added aio_rmtree.
10 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing. 369 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
11 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1. 370 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
371 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
372 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
373 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
12 374
132.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007 3752.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
14 - added aio_load. 376 - added aio_load.
15 377
162.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006 3782.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006

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