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Revision 1.187 by root, Sun Jun 7 22:28:05 2009 UTC

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2 2
31.3 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
9 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
10
113.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
12 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
13 not restore the file offset.
14 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
15 the names in various ways.
16 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
17 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
18 process. no more!
19 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
20
213.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
22 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
23 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
24 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
25
263.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
27 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
28 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
29
303.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
31 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
32 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
33
343.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
35 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
36 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
37
383.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
39 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
40 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
41 has added something to the group or not.
42
433.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
44 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
45 and decreased memory usage.
46 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
47 but seems more correct.
48 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
49 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
50 requiring a thread switch.
51 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
52 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
53
543.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
55 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
56
573.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
58 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
59 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
60 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
61
623.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
63 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
64 (sic!) versions.
65
663.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
67 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
68 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
69 is stupid.
70 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
71 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
72 not to get initialised properly.
73
743.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
75 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
76 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
77 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
78 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
79 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
80
813.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
82 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
83 - bring back working fchmod.
84 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
85 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
86
873.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
88 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
89 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
90 - do not try to link against -lrt.
91 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
92
933.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
94 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
95 - switched to using libeio.
96 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
97 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
98 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
99 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
100
1012.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
102 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
103 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
104 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
105 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
106
1072.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
108 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
109 also display files given on the commandline.
110 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
111 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
112 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
113 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
114 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
115 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
116 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
117
1182.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
119 - added aio_sync.
120 - added aio_pathsync.
121 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
122
1232.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
124 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
125 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
126 (see the manpage for details).
127 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
128 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
129 - minor code cleanups.
130
1312.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
132 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
133 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
134 work sensibly for the very first time.
135
1362.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
137 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
138 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
139 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
140 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
141
1422.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
143 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
144 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
145 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
146 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
147 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
148 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
149 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
150 have a larger range then.
151 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
152 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
153 - readahead emulation now returns something.
154 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
155 (should never happen, though).
156 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
157 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
158 too many functions with crashing versions.
159
1602.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
161 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
162
1632.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
164 - added aio_rmtree.
165 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
166 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
167 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
168 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
169 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
170
1712.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
172 - added aio_load.
173
1742.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
175 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
176 or crashes.
177
1782.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
179 - minor doc updates.
180 - minor cleanups.
181 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
182 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
183
1842.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
185 - minor doc updates.
186 - added aio_readlink.
187 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
188 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
189 - reduced size of aio request structure.
190 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
191 do not leak request in that case, either.
192
1932.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
194 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
195 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
196 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
197 it would have to copy files manually.
198 - doc updates.
199 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
200 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
201 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
202 - some tuning applied to random places.
203 - add aio_mknod.
204
2052.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
206 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
207 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
208 - aio requests can be cancelled.
209 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
210 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
211 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
212 into composite requests.
213 - generator interface for groups.
214 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
215 - major documentation improvements.
216 - very minor bugfixes.
217 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
218 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
219 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
220 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
221 putting them onto the stack.
222 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
223 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
224 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
225 - warn about broken perl malloc.
226 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
227 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
228 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
229
2301.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
231 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
232
2331.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
234 - codename "jost"
235 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
236 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
237 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
238
2391.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
240 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
241 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
242
2431.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
244 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
245 in a runtime error.
246
2471.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
248 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
249 - added AnyEvent example.
250
2511.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
252 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
253 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
254 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
255 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
256 wasting memory).
257
2581.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
259 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
260 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
261 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
262 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
263 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
264
2651.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
266 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
267 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
268 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
269 - abort when the configure script fails.
270
2711.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
272 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
273 deadlocks.
274
2751.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
4 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 276 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
5 eating them. 277 eating them.
278 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
279 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
280 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
281 length after reading.
282 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
283 from the parent.
284 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
285 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
286 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
287 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
288 scalar for better error reporting.
6 289
71.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 2901.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
8 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris. 291 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
9 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to 292 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
10 the external filename encoding first. 293 the external filename encoding first.

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