--- IO-AIO/Changes 2007/12/02 21:51:37 1.135 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2008/10/22 16:30:49 1.174 @@ -3,12 +3,98 @@ TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc. TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? -TODO: fix setsig TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) +TODO: sync_file_range +TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking -2.6 +3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008 + - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical + part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon). + +3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008 + - automatic removal of feeders was broken. + - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder + has added something to the group or not. + +3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008 + - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed + and decreased memory usage. + - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown, + but seems more correct. + - $req->cb now returns the original callback. + - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without + requiring a thread switch. + - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0. + - do some other ยต-optimisations. + +3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008 + - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests. + +3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008 + - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference, + to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist) + or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood. + +3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008 + - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe + (sic!) versions. + +3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008 + - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments. + - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this + is stupid. + - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger. + - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO + not to get initialised properly. + +3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008 + - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy (). + - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more. + - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers. + - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop. + - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value. + +3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008 + - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink. + - bring back working fchmod. + - nop and busy now set result to 0. + - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails. + +3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008 + - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r. + - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability. + - do not try to link against -lrt. + - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one). + +3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008 + - added bin/treescan to the distribution. + - switched to using libeio. + - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES: + - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort. + - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests. + - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests. + +2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008 + - port to solaris perls configured for old posix + (analysed by Jost Krieger). + - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close, + so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races. + +2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008 + - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering. + also display files given on the commandline. + - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster + and probably has even lower chances of blocking. + - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux + allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you + use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads + on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN + and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k). + +2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008 - added aio_sync. - added aio_pathsync. + - fix prototypes of (void) functions. 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.