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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?
11TODO: eio_mmap|mlock|munmap|splice...
12
13 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
14 to quick overview.
15 - splice can corrupt data.
16 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
17 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
18 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
19 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on files without any
20 extents.
21
224.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
23 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
24 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
25 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
26 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
27 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
28 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
29
304.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
31 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
32 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
33 - new request aio_seek.
34 - new request aio_fiemap.
35 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
36
374.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
38 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
39 instead of -1.
40 - port to c89.
41
424.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
43 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
44
454.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
46 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
47 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
48 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
49 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
50 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
51 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
52 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
53 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
54 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
55 in aio_scandir and treescan.
56 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
57 - added --progress switch to treescan.
58
594.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
60 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
61 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
62 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
63 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
64 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
65 a timeout occured at the same time.
66 - (libeio) added realpath.
67 - (libeio) added fallocate.
68 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
69 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
70 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
71
723.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
73 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
74
753.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
76 - ecb.h was missing.
77
783.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
79 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
80 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
81 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
82 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
83 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
84 transferred...)
85 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
86 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
87 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
88 pthread and fork in perl.
89 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
90 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
91 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
92 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
93
943.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
95 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
96 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
97 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
98 flags.
99
1003.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
101 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
102 - support a max_idle value of 0.
103 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
104
1053.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
106 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
107 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
108 - new treescan option: --grep.
109 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
110
1113.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
112 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
113 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
114 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
115 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
116 funcitonality. ugh.
117
1183.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
119 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
120 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
121 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
122 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
123 (openbsd 4.8).
124 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
125 had string-data.
126 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
127 them.
128 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
129 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
130 user-errors better.
131 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
132
1333.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
134 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
135 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
136 Rasmus Andersson).
137 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
138 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
139 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
140 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
141 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
142
1433.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
144 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
145 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
146 kernel sources.
147 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
148 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
149 - clean up manpage.
150
1513.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
152 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
153 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
154 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
155 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
156 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
157 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
158
1593.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
160 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
161 - clarify cancel_subs description.
162 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
163 from the sendfile call.
164 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
165 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
166
1673.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
168 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
169 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
170 hash lookups.
171
1723.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
173 - use common::sense.
174 - use common schmorp.h header.
175 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
176 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
177 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
178
1793.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
180 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
181
1823.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
183 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
184 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
185 way. might help other os's too.
186
1873.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
188 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
189 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
190 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
191 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
192 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
193 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
196 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
197 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
198 but should not have been.
199 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
200 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
201
2023.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
203 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
204 rushed 3.22 release.
205
2063.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
207 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
208 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
209
2103.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
211 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
212 - install bin/treescan by default.
213 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
214 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
215 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
216 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
217 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
218 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
219 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
220
2213.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
222 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
223 not restore the file offset.
224 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
225 the names in various ways.
226 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
227 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
228 process. no more!
229 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
230
2313.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
232 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
233 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
234 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
235
2363.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
237 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
238 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
239
2403.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
241 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
242 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
243
2443.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
245 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
246 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
247
2483.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
249 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
250 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
251 has added something to the group or not.
252
2533.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
254 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
255 and decreased memory usage.
256 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
257 but seems more correct.
258 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
259 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
260 requiring a thread switch.
261 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
262 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
263
2643.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
265 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
266
2673.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
268 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
269 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
270 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
271
2723.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
273 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
274 (sic!) versions.
275
2763.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
277 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
278 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
279 is stupid.
280 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
281 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
282 not to get initialised properly.
283
2843.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
285 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
286 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
287 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
288 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
289 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
290
2913.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
292 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
293 - bring back working fchmod.
294 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
295 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
296
2973.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
298 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
299 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
300 - do not try to link against -lrt.
301 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
302
3033.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
304 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
305 - switched to using libeio.
306 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
307 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
308 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
309 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
310
3112.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
312 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
313 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
314 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
315 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
316
3172.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
318 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
319 also display files given on the commandline.
320 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
321 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
322 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
323 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
324 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
325 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
326 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
327
3282.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
329 - added aio_sync.
330 - added aio_pathsync.
331 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
332
3332.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
334 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
335 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
336 (see the manpage for details).
337 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
338 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
339 - minor code cleanups.
340
3412.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
342 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
343 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
344 work sensibly for the very first time.
345
3462.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
347 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
348 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
349 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
350 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
351
3522.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
353 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
354 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
355 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
356 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
357 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
358 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
359 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
360 have a larger range then.
361 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
362 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
363 - readahead emulation now returns something.
364 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
365 (should never happen, though).
366 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
367 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
368 too many functions with crashing versions.
8 369
92.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007 3702.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
10 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig). 371 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
11 372
122.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007 3732.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007

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