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3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree 3TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? 4TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6TODO: fix setsig
7TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) 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...
8 12
92.6 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
204.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
21 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
22 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
23 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
24 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
25 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
26 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
27
284.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
29 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
30 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
31 - new request aio_seek.
32 - new request aio_fiemap.
33 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
34
354.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
36 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
37 instead of -1.
38 - port to c89.
39
404.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
41 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
42
434.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
44 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
45 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
46 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
47 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
48 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
49 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
50 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
51 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
52 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
53 in aio_scandir and treescan.
54 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
55 - added --progress switch to treescan.
56
574.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
58 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
59 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
60 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
61 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
62 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
63 a timeout occured at the same time.
64 - (libeio) added realpath.
65 - (libeio) added fallocate.
66 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
67 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
68 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
69
703.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
71 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
72
733.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
74 - ecb.h was missing.
75
763.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
77 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
78 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
79 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
80 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
81 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
82 transferred...)
83 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
84 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
85 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
86 pthread and fork in perl.
87 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
88 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
89 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
90 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
91
923.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
93 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
94 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
95 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
96 flags.
97
983.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
99 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
100 - support a max_idle value of 0.
101 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
102
1033.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
104 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
105 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
106 - new treescan option: --grep.
107 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
108
1093.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
110 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
111 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
112 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
113 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
114 funcitonality. ugh.
115
1163.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
117 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
118 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
119 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
120 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
121 (openbsd 4.8).
122 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
123 had string-data.
124 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
125 them.
126 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
127 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
128 user-errors better.
129 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
130
1313.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
132 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
133 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
134 Rasmus Andersson).
135 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
136 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
137 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
138 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
139 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
140
1413.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
142 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
143 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
144 kernel sources.
145 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
146 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
147 - clean up manpage.
148
1493.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
150 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
151 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
152 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
153 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
154 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
155 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
156
1573.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
158 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
159 - clarify cancel_subs description.
160 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
161 from the sendfile call.
162 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
163 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
164
1653.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
166 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
167 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
168 hash lookups.
169
1703.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
171 - use common::sense.
172 - use common schmorp.h header.
173 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
174 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
175 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
176
1773.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
178 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
179
1803.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
181 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
182 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
183 way. might help other os's too.
184
1853.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
186 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
187 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
188 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
189 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
190 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
191 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
192 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
193 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
194 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
195 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
196 but should not have been.
197 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
198 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
199
2003.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
201 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
202 rushed 3.22 release.
203
2043.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
205 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
206 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
207
2083.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
209 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
210 - install bin/treescan by default.
211 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
212 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
213 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
214 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
215 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
216 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
217 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
218
2193.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
220 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
221 not restore the file offset.
222 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
223 the names in various ways.
224 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
225 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
226 process. no more!
227 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
228
2293.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
230 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
231 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
232 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
233
2343.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
235 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
236 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
237
2383.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
239 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
240 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
241
2423.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
243 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
244 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
245
2463.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
247 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
248 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
249 has added something to the group or not.
250
2513.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
252 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
253 and decreased memory usage.
254 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
255 but seems more correct.
256 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
257 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
258 requiring a thread switch.
259 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
260 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
261
2623.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
263 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
264
2653.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
266 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
267 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
268 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
269
2703.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
271 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
272 (sic!) versions.
273
2743.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
275 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
276 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
277 is stupid.
278 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
279 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
280 not to get initialised properly.
281
2823.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
283 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
284 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
285 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
286 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
287 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
288
2893.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
290 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
291 - bring back working fchmod.
292 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
293 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
294
2953.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
296 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
297 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
298 - do not try to link against -lrt.
299 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
300
3013.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
302 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
303 - switched to using libeio.
304 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
305 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
306 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
307 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
308
3092.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
310 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
311 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
312 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
313 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
314
3152.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
316 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
317 also display files given on the commandline.
318 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
319 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
320 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
321 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
322 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
323 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
324 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
325
3262.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
10 - added aio_sync. 327 - added aio_sync.
328 - added aio_pathsync.
329 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
11 330
122.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007 3312.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
13 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably. 332 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
14 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous 333 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
15 (see the manpage for details). 334 (see the manpage for details).

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