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2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
93.1
10 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
11 and decreased memory usage.
12 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
13 but seems more correct.
14 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
15 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
16 requiring a thread switch.
17 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
18
193.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
20 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
21
223.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
23 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
24 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
25 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
26
273.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
28 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
29 (sic!) versions.
30
313.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
32 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
33 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
34 is stupid.
35 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
36 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
37 not to get initialised properly.
38
393.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
40 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
41 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
42 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
43 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
44 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
45
463.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
47 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
48 - bring back working fchmod.
49 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
50 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
51
523.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
53 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
54 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
55 - do not try to link against -lrt.
56 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
57
583.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
59 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
60 - switched to using libeio.
61 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
62 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
63 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
64 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
65
662.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
67 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
68 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
69 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
70 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
71
722.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
73 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
74 also display files given on the commandline.
75 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
76 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
77 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
78 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
79 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
80 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
81 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
82
832.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
84 - added aio_sync.
85 - added aio_pathsync.
86 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
87
882.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
89 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
90 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
91 (see the manpage for details).
92 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
93 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
94 - minor code cleanups.
95
962.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
97 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
98 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
99 work sensibly for the very first time.
100
1012.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
102 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
103 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
104 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
105 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
106
1072.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
108 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
109 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
110 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
111 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
112 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
113 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
114 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
115 have a larger range then.
116 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
117 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
118 - readahead emulation now returns something.
119 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
120 (should never happen, though).
121 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
122 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
123 too many functions with crashing versions.
124
1252.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
126 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
127
1282.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
129 - added aio_rmtree.
130 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
131 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
132 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
133 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
134 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
135
1362.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
137 - added aio_load.
138
1392.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
140 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
141 or crashes.
142
1432.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
144 - minor doc updates.
145 - minor cleanups.
146 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
147 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
148
1492.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
150 - minor doc updates.
151 - added aio_readlink.
152 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
153 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
154 - reduced size of aio request structure.
155 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
156 do not leak request in that case, either.
157
1582.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
159 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
160 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
161 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
162 it would have to copy files manually.
163 - doc updates.
164 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
165 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
166 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
167 - some tuning applied to random places.
168 - add aio_mknod.
169
1702.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
171 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
172 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
173 - aio requests can be cancelled.
174 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
175 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
176 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
177 into composite requests.
178 - generator interface for groups.
179 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
180 - major documentation improvements.
181 - very minor bugfixes.
182 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
183 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
184 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
185 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
186 putting them onto the stack.
187 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
188 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
189 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
190 - warn about broken perl malloc.
191 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
192 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
193 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
194
1951.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
196 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
197
1981.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
199 - codename "jost"
200 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
201 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
202 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
203
2041.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
205 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
206 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
207
2081.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
209 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
210 in a runtime error.
211
2121.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
213 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
214 - added AnyEvent example.
215
2161.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
217 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
218 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
219 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
220 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
221 wasting memory).
222
2231.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
224 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
225 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
226 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
227 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
228 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
229
2301.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
231 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
232 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
233 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
234 - abort when the configure script fails.
235
2361.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
237 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
238 deadlocks.
239
2401.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
241 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
242 eating them.
243 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
244 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
245 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
246 length after reading.
247 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
248 from the parent.
249 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
250 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
251 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
252 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
253 scalar for better error reporting.
254
2551.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
256 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
257 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
258 the external filename encoding first.
259 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
260 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
261 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
262 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
263 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
264 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
265 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
266 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
267 error catching.
268
2691.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
270 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
271 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
272 feedback yet).
273 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
274 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
3 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick 275 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
4 from Linux::AIO. 276 from Linux::AIO.
5 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't 277 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
6 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. 278 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
279 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
280 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
281 the fd to an fh.
282 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
283 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
284 properly encode your pathnames.
7 285
81.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 2861.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
9 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles. 287 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
10 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so 288 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
11 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it. 289 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.

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