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2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc. 3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree 4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? 5TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
7TODO: fix setsig 6TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8TODO: aio_mincore?
9TODO: getxattr etc.?
10TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
8 11
12 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
13 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
14
154.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
16 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
17 instead of -1.
18 - port to c89.
19
204.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
21 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
22
234.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
24 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
25 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
26 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
27 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
28 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
29 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
30 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
31 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
32 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
33 in aio_scandir and treescan.
34 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
35 - added --progress switch to treescan.
36
374.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
38 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
39 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
40 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
41 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
42 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
43 a timeout occured at the same time.
44 - (libeio) added realpath.
45 - (libeio) added fallocate.
46 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
47 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
48 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
49
503.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
51 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
52
533.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
54 - ecb.h was missing.
55
563.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
57 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
58 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
59 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
60 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
61 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
62 transferred...)
63 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
64 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
65 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
66 pthread and fork in perl.
67 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
68 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
69 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
70 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
71
723.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
73 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
74 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
75 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
76 flags.
77
783.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
79 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
80 - support a max_idle value of 0.
81 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
82
833.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
84 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
85 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
86 - new treescan option: --grep.
87 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
88
893.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
90 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
91 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
92 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
93 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
94 funcitonality. ugh.
95
963.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
97 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
98 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
99 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
100 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
101 (openbsd 4.8).
102 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
103 had string-data.
104 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
105 them.
106 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
107 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
108 user-errors better.
109 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
110
1113.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
112 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
113 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
114 Rasmus Andersson).
115 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
116 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
117 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
118 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
119 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
120
1213.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
122 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
123 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
124 kernel sources.
125 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
126 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
127 - clean up manpage.
128
1293.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
130 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
131 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
132 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
133 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
134 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
135 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
136
1373.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
138 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
139 - clarify cancel_subs description.
140 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
141 from the sendfile call.
142 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
143 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
144
1453.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
146 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
147 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
148 hash lookups.
149
1503.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
151 - use common::sense.
152 - use common schmorp.h header.
153 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
154 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
155 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
156
1573.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
158 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
159
1603.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
161 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
162 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
163 way. might help other os's too.
164
1653.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
166 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
167 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
168 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
169 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
170 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
171 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
172 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
173 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
174 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
175 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
176 but should not have been.
177 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
178 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
179
1803.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
181 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
182 rushed 3.22 release.
183
1843.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
185 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
186 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
187
1883.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
189 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
190 - install bin/treescan by default.
191 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
192 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
193 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
194 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
195 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
196 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
197 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
198
1993.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
200 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
201 not restore the file offset.
202 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
203 the names in various ways.
204 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
205 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
206 process. no more!
207 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
208
2093.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
210 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
211 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
212 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
213
2143.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
215 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
216 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
217
2183.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
219 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
220 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
221
2223.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
223 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
224 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
225
2263.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
227 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
228 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
229 has added something to the group or not.
230
2313.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
232 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
233 and decreased memory usage.
234 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
235 but seems more correct.
236 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
237 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
238 requiring a thread switch.
239 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
240 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
241
2423.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
243 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
244
2453.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
246 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
247 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
248 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
249
2503.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
251 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
252 (sic!) versions.
253
2543.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
255 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
256 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
257 is stupid.
258 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
259 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
260 not to get initialised properly.
261
2623.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
263 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
264 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
265 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
266 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
267 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
268
2693.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
270 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
271 - bring back working fchmod.
272 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
273 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
274
2753.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
276 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
277 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
278 - do not try to link against -lrt.
279 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
280
2813.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
282 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
283 - switched to using libeio.
284 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
285 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
286 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
287 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
288
2892.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
290 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
291 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
292 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
293 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
294
2952.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
296 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
297 also display files given on the commandline.
298 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
299 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
300 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
301 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
302 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
303 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
304 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
305
3062.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
307 - added aio_sync.
308 - added aio_pathsync.
309 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
310
3112.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
312 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
313 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
314 (see the manpage for details).
315 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
316 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
317 - minor code cleanups.
318
3192.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
320 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
321 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
322 work sensibly for the very first time.
323
3242.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
325 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
326 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
327 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
328 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
329
3302.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
331 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
332 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
333 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
334 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
335 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
336 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
337 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
338 have a larger range then.
9 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO. 339 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
340 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
341 - readahead emulation now returns something.
342 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
343 (should never happen, though).
344 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
345 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
346 too many functions with crashing versions.
10 347
112.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007 3482.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
12 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig). 349 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
13 350
142.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007 3512.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007

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