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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
3 8
93.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
10 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
11 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
12 has added something to the group or not.
13
143.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
15 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
16 and decreased memory usage.
17 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
18 but seems more correct.
19 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
20 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
21 requiring a thread switch.
22 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
23 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
24
253.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
26 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
27
283.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
29 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
30 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
31 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
32
333.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
34 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
35 (sic!) versions.
36
373.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
38 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
39 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
40 is stupid.
41 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
42 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
43 not to get initialised properly.
44
453.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
46 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
47 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
48 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
49 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
50 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
51
523.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
53 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
54 - bring back working fchmod.
55 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
56 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
57
583.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
59 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
60 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
61 - do not try to link against -lrt.
62 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
63
643.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
65 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
66 - switched to using libeio.
67 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
68 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
69 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
70 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
71
722.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
73 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
74 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
75 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
76 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
77
782.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
79 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
80 also display files given on the commandline.
81 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
82 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
83 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
84 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
85 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
86 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
87 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
88
892.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
90 - added aio_sync.
91 - added aio_pathsync.
92 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
93
942.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
95 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
96 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
97 (see the manpage for details).
98 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
99 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
100 - minor code cleanups.
101
1022.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
103 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
104 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
105 work sensibly for the very first time.
106
1072.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
108 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
109 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
110 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
111 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
112
1132.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
114 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
115 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
116 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
117 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
118 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
119 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
120 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
121 have a larger range then.
122 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
123 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
124 - readahead emulation now returns something.
125 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
126 (should never happen, though).
127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
128 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
129 too many functions with crashing versions.
130
1312.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
132 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
133
1342.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
135 - added aio_rmtree.
136 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
137 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
138 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
139 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
140 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
141
1422.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
143 - added aio_load.
144
1452.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
146 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
147 or crashes.
148
1492.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
150 - minor doc updates.
151 - minor cleanups.
152 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
153 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
154
1552.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
156 - minor doc updates.
157 - added aio_readlink.
158 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
159 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
160 - reduced size of aio request structure.
161 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
162 do not leak request in that case, either.
163
1642.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
165 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
166 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
167 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
168 it would have to copy files manually.
169 - doc updates.
170 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
171 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
172 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
173 - some tuning applied to random places.
174 - add aio_mknod.
175
1762.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
177 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
178 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
179 - aio requests can be cancelled.
180 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
181 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
182 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
183 into composite requests.
184 - generator interface for groups.
185 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
186 - major documentation improvements.
187 - very minor bugfixes.
188 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
189 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
190 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
191 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
192 putting them onto the stack.
193 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
194 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
195 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
196 - warn about broken perl malloc.
197 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
198 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
199 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
200
2011.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
202 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
203
2041.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
205 - codename "jost"
206 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
207 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
208 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
209
2101.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
211 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
212 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
213
2141.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
215 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
216 in a runtime error.
217
2181.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
219 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
220 - added AnyEvent example.
221
2221.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
223 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
224 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
225 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
226 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
227 wasting memory).
228
2291.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
230 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
231 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
232 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
233 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
234 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
235
2361.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
237 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
238 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
239 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
240 - abort when the configure script fails.
241
2421.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
243 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
244 deadlocks.
245
2461.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
247 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
248 eating them.
249 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
250 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
251 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
252 length after reading.
253 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
254 from the parent.
255 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
256 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
257 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
258 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
259 scalar for better error reporting.
260
2611.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
262 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
263 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
264 the external filename encoding first.
265 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
266 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
267 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
268 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
269 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
270 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
271 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
272 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
273 error catching.
274
2751.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
276 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
277 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
278 feedback yet).
279 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
280 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
281 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
282 from Linux::AIO.
283 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
284 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
285 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
286 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
287 the fd to an fh.
288 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
289 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
290 properly encode your pathnames.
291
2921.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
293 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
294 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
295 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
296 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
297
2980.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
299 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
300 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
301 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
302 from Linux::AIO.
303 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
304 does not implement pread/pwrite).
305 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
306
3070.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
308 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
309 need it anyway.
310 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
311 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
312
3130.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
314 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
315 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
316
3170.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
318 - restructured manpage.
319 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
320 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
321 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
322
3230.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
4 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 324 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
5 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 325 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
6 communications. 326 communications for most requests and responses.
7 327
80.1 3280.1
9 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar. 329 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
10 330

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