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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: splice/tee/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: SEEK_HOLE, SEEK_DATA?
11
12 - new request aio_seek.
13 - new request aio_fiemap.
14 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
15 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
16 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
17
184.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
19 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
20 instead of -1.
21 - port to c89.
22
234.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
24 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
25
264.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
27 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
28 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
29 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
30 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
31 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
32 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
33 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
34 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
35 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
36 in aio_scandir and treescan.
37 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
38 - added --progress switch to treescan.
39
404.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
41 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
42 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
43 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
44 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
45 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
46 a timeout occured at the same time.
47 - (libeio) added realpath.
48 - (libeio) added fallocate.
49 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
50 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
51 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
52
533.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
54 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
55
563.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
57 - ecb.h was missing.
58
593.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
60 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
61 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
62 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
63 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
64 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
65 transferred...)
66 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
67 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
68 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
69 pthread and fork in perl.
70 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
71 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
72 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
73 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
74
753.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
76 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
77 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
78 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
79 flags.
80
813.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
82 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
83 - support a max_idle value of 0.
84 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
85
863.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
87 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
88 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
89 - new treescan option: --grep.
90 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
91
923.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
93 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
94 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
95 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
96 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
97 funcitonality. ugh.
98
993.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
100 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
101 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
102 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
103 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
104 (openbsd 4.8).
105 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
106 had string-data.
107 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
108 them.
109 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
110 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
111 user-errors better.
112 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
113
1143.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
115 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
116 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
117 Rasmus Andersson).
118 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
119 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
120 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
121 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
122 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
123
1243.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
125 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
126 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
127 kernel sources.
128 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
129 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
130 - clean up manpage.
131
1323.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
133 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
134 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
135 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
136 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
137 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
138 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
139
1403.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
141 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
142 - clarify cancel_subs description.
143 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
144 from the sendfile call.
145 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
146 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
147
1483.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
149 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
150 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
151 hash lookups.
152
1533.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
154 - use common::sense.
155 - use common schmorp.h header.
156 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
157 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
158 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
159
1603.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
161 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
162
1633.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
164 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
165 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
166 way. might help other os's too.
167
1683.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
169 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
170 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
171 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
172 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
173 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
174 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
175 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
176 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
177 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
178 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
179 but should not have been.
180 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
181 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
182
1833.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
184 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
185 rushed 3.22 release.
186
1873.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
188 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
189 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
190
1913.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
192 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
193 - install bin/treescan by default.
194 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
195 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
196 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
197 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
198 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
199 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
200 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
201
2023.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
203 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
204 not restore the file offset.
205 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
206 the names in various ways.
207 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
208 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
209 process. no more!
210 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
211
2123.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
213 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
214 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
215 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
216
2173.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
218 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
219 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
220
2213.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
222 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
223 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
224
2253.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
226 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
227 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
228
2293.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
230 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
231 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
232 has added something to the group or not.
233
2343.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
235 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
236 and decreased memory usage.
237 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
238 but seems more correct.
239 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
240 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
241 requiring a thread switch.
242 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
243 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
244
2453.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
246 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
247
2483.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
249 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
250 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
251 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
252
2533.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
254 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
255 (sic!) versions.
256
2573.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
258 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
259 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
260 is stupid.
261 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
262 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
263 not to get initialised properly.
264
2653.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
266 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
267 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
268 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
269 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
270 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
271
2723.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
273 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
274 - bring back working fchmod.
275 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
276 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
277
2783.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
279 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
280 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
281 - do not try to link against -lrt.
282 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
283
2843.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
285 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
286 - switched to using libeio.
287 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
288 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
289 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
290 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
291
2922.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
293 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
294 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
295 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
296 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
297
2982.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
299 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
300 also display files given on the commandline.
301 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
302 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
303 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
304 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
305 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
306 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
307 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
308
3092.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
310 - added aio_sync.
311 - added aio_pathsync.
312 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
313
3142.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
315 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
316 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
317 (see the manpage for details).
318 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
319 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
320 - minor code cleanups.
321
3222.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
323 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
324 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
325 work sensibly for the very first time.
326
3272.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
328 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
329 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
330 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
331 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
332
3332.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
334 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
335 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
336 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
337 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
338 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
339 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
340 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
341 have a larger range then.
342 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
343 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
344 - readahead emulation now returns something.
345 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
346 (should never happen, though).
347 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
348 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
349 too many functions with crashing versions.
8 350
92.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007 3512.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
10 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig). 352 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
11 353
122.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007 3542.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007

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