--- IO-AIO/Changes 2008/10/22 18:15:36 1.175 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2010/01/07 17:18:08 1.214 @@ -3,10 +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: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) +TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking +TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless. +TODO: IO::AIO::mmap? aio_mincore? - - added aio_sync_file_range. + - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu). + - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug. + +3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010 + - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks. + - clarify cancel_subs description. + - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value + from the sendfile call. + - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch. + - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile. + +3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009 + - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move. + - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding + hash lookups. + +3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009 + - use common::sense. + - use common schmorp.h header. + - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles. + - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?). + - use poll not select on posix platforms. + +3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009 + - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno). + +3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009 + - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise. + try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish + way. might help other os's too. + +3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009 + - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile. + - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix + sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually + faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on + degenerated (for quicksort) data. + - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type + knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used. + - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no + known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue. + - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code + but should not have been. + - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64, + which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls). + +3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009 + - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the + rushed 3.22 release. + +3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009 + - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly. + - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball. + +3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009 + - new options --dirs and --files for treescan. + - install bin/treescan by default. + - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing. + - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead + to problems on big endian 64 bit systems). + - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises + the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing + a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less + stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations. + +3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009 + - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did + not restore the file offset. + - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort + the names in various ways. + - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just + been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the + process. no more! + - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available. + +3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009 + - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write. + - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible). + - aio_read now works correctly with magic values. + +3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009 + - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh. + - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl. + +3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008 + - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested). + - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ. 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical