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31.5 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? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
93.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
10 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
11 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
12
133.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
14 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
15 - install bin/treescan by default.
16 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
17 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
18 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
19 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
20 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
21 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
22 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
23
243.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
25 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
26 not restore the file offset.
27 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
28 the names in various ways.
29 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
30 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
31 process. no more!
32 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
33
343.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
35 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
36 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
37 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
38
393.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
40 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
41 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
42
433.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
44 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
45 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
46
473.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
48 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
49 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
50
513.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
52 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
53 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
54 has added something to the group or not.
55
563.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
57 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
58 and decreased memory usage.
59 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
60 but seems more correct.
61 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
62 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
63 requiring a thread switch.
64 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
65 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
66
673.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
68 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
69
703.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
71 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
72 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
73 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
74
753.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
76 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
77 (sic!) versions.
78
793.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
80 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
81 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
82 is stupid.
83 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
84 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
85 not to get initialised properly.
86
873.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
88 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
89 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
90 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
91 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
92 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
93
943.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
95 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
96 - bring back working fchmod.
97 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
98 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
99
1003.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
101 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
102 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
103 - do not try to link against -lrt.
104 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
105
1063.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
107 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
108 - switched to using libeio.
109 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
110 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
111 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
112 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
113
1142.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
115 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
116 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
117 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
118 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
119
1202.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
121 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
122 also display files given on the commandline.
123 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
124 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
125 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
126 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
127 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
128 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
129 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
130
1312.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
132 - added aio_sync.
133 - added aio_pathsync.
134 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
135
1362.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
137 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
138 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
139 (see the manpage for details).
140 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
141 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
142 - minor code cleanups.
143
1442.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
145 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
146 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
147 work sensibly for the very first time.
148
1492.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
150 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
151 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
152 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
153 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
154
1552.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
156 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
157 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
158 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
159 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
160 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
161 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
162 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
163 have a larger range then.
164 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
165 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
166 - readahead emulation now returns something.
167 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
168 (should never happen, though).
169 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
170 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
171 too many functions with crashing versions.
172
1732.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
174 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
175
1762.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
177 - added aio_rmtree.
178 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
179 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
180 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
181 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
182 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
183
1842.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
185 - added aio_load.
186
1872.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
188 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
189 or crashes.
190
1912.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
192 - minor doc updates.
193 - minor cleanups.
194 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
195 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
196
1972.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
198 - minor doc updates.
199 - added aio_readlink.
200 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
201 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
202 - reduced size of aio request structure.
203 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
204 do not leak request in that case, either.
205
2062.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
207 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
208 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
209 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
210 it would have to copy files manually.
211 - doc updates.
212 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
213 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
214 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
215 - some tuning applied to random places.
216 - add aio_mknod.
217
2182.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
219 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
220 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
221 - aio requests can be cancelled.
222 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
223 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
224 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
225 into composite requests.
226 - generator interface for groups.
227 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
228 - major documentation improvements.
229 - very minor bugfixes.
230 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
231 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
232 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
233 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
234 putting them onto the stack.
235 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
236 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
237 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
238 - warn about broken perl malloc.
239 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
240 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
241 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
242
2431.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
244 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
245
2461.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
247 - codename "jost"
248 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
249 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
250 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
251
2521.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
253 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
254 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
255
2561.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
257 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
258 in a runtime error.
259
2601.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
261 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
262 - added AnyEvent example.
263
2641.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
265 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
266 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
267 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
268 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
269 wasting memory).
270
2711.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
272 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
273 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
274 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
275 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
276 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
277
2781.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
4 - create the aio threads on demand only. 279 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
5 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 280 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
6 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones. 281 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
282 - abort when the configure script fails.
7 283
81.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 2841.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
9 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 285 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
10 deadlocks. 286 deadlocks.
11 287
121.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 2881.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
13 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 289 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
14 eating them. 290 eating them.

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