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31.1 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
8TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless.
9
10 - use common::sense.
11 - use common schmorp.h header.
12 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
13
143.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
15 - more OS X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
16
173.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
18 - os x of course claims posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise. try to work
19 around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish way. might help
20 other os's too.
21
223.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
23 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
24 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
25 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
26 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
27 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
28 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
29 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
30 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
31 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
32 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
33 but should not have been.
34 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
35 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
36
373.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
38 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
39 rushed 3.22 release.
40
413.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
42 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
43 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
44
453.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
46 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
47 - install bin/treescan by default.
48 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
49 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
50 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
51 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
52 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
53 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
54 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
55
563.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
57 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
58 not restore the file offset.
59 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
60 the names in various ways.
61 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
62 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
63 process. no more!
64 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
65
663.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
67 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
68 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
69 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
70
713.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
72 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
73 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
74
753.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
76 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
77 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
78
793.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
80 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
81 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
82
833.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
84 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
85 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
86 has added something to the group or not.
87
883.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
89 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
90 and decreased memory usage.
91 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
92 but seems more correct.
93 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
94 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
95 requiring a thread switch.
96 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
97 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
98
993.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
100 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
101
1023.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
103 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
104 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
105 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
106
1073.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
108 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
109 (sic!) versions.
110
1113.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
112 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
113 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
114 is stupid.
115 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
116 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
117 not to get initialised properly.
118
1193.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
120 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
121 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
122 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
123 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
124 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
125
1263.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
127 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
128 - bring back working fchmod.
129 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
130 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
131
1323.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
133 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
134 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
135 - do not try to link against -lrt.
136 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
137
1383.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
139 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
140 - switched to using libeio.
141 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
142 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
143 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
144 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
145
1462.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
147 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
148 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
149 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
150 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
151
1522.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
153 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
154 also display files given on the commandline.
155 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
156 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
157 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
158 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
159 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
160 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
161 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
162
1632.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
164 - added aio_sync.
165 - added aio_pathsync.
166 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
167
1682.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
169 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
170 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
171 (see the manpage for details).
172 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
173 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
174 - minor code cleanups.
175
1762.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
177 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
178 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
179 work sensibly for the very first time.
180
1812.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
182 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
183 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
184 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
185 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
186
1872.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
188 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
189 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
190 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
191 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
192 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
193 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
194 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
195 have a larger range then.
196 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
197 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
198 - readahead emulation now returns something.
199 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
200 (should never happen, though).
201 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
202 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
203 too many functions with crashing versions.
204
2052.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
206 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
207
2082.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
209 - added aio_rmtree.
210 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
211 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
212 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
213 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
214 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
215
2162.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
217 - added aio_load.
218
2192.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
220 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
221 or crashes.
222
2232.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
224 - minor doc updates.
225 - minor cleanups.
226 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
227 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
228
2292.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
230 - minor doc updates.
231 - added aio_readlink.
232 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
233 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
234 - reduced size of aio request structure.
235 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
236 do not leak request in that case, either.
237
2382.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
239 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
240 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
241 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
242 it would have to copy files manually.
243 - doc updates.
244 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
245 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
246 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
247 - some tuning applied to random places.
248 - add aio_mknod.
249
2502.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
251 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
252 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
253 - aio requests can be cancelled.
254 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
255 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
256 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
257 into composite requests.
258 - generator interface for groups.
259 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
260 - major documentation improvements.
261 - very minor bugfixes.
262 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
263 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
264 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
265 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
266 putting them onto the stack.
267 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
268 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
269 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
270 - warn about broken perl malloc.
271 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
272 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
273 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
274
2751.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
276 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
277
2781.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
279 - codename "jost"
280 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
281 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
282 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
283
2841.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
285 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
286 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
287
2881.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
289 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
290 in a runtime error.
291
2921.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
293 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
294 - added AnyEvent example.
295
2961.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
297 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
298 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
299 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
300 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
301 wasting memory).
302
3031.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
304 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
305 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
306 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
307 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
308 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
309
3101.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
311 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
312 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
313 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
314 - abort when the configure script fails.
315
3161.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
317 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
318 deadlocks.
319
3201.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
321 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
322 eating them.
323 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
324 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
325 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
326 length after reading.
327 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
328 from the parent.
329 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
330 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
331 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
332 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
333 scalar for better error reporting.
334
3351.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
336 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
337 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
338 the external filename encoding first.
339 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
340 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
341 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
342 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
343 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
344 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
345 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
346 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
347 error catching.
348
3491.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detetc availability of some calls. 350 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
5 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due it missing 351 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
6 feedback yet). 352 feedback yet).
7 - emulate fdatasync by fsync, pread/pwrite by unsafe read/write 353 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
8 and readahead by manual reading on platforms lacking those. 354 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
9 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick 355 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
10 from Linux::AIO. 356 from Linux::AIO.
11 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't 357 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
12 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. 358 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
13 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls. 359 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
360 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
361 the fd to an fh.
362 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
363 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
364 properly encode your pathnames.
14 365
151.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 3661.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
16 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles. 367 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
17 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so 368 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
18 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it. 369 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.

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