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Revision 1.188 by root, Sun Jun 7 22:37:54 2009 UTC

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2 2
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
9 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
10 - install bin/treescan by default.
11
123.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
13 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
14 not restore the file offset.
15 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
16 the names in various ways.
17 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
18 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
19 process. no more!
20 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
21
223.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
23 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
24 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
25 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
26
273.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
28 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
29 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
30
313.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
32 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
33 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
34
353.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
36 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
37 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
38
393.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
40 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
41 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
42 has added something to the group or not.
43
443.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
45 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
46 and decreased memory usage.
47 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
48 but seems more correct.
49 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
50 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
51 requiring a thread switch.
52 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
53 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
54
553.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
56 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
57
583.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
59 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
60 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
61 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
62
633.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
64 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
65 (sic!) versions.
66
673.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
68 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
69 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
70 is stupid.
71 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
72 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
73 not to get initialised properly.
74
753.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
76 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
77 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
78 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
79 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
80 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
81
823.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
83 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
84 - bring back working fchmod.
85 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
86 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
87
883.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
89 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
90 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
91 - do not try to link against -lrt.
92 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
93
943.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
95 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
96 - switched to using libeio.
97 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
98 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
99 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
100 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
101
1022.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
103 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
104 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
105 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
106 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
107
1082.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
109 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
110 also display files given on the commandline.
111 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
112 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
113 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
114 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
115 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
116 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
117 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
118
1192.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
120 - added aio_sync.
121 - added aio_pathsync.
122 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
123
1242.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
125 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
126 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
127 (see the manpage for details).
128 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
129 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
130 - minor code cleanups.
131
1322.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
133 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
134 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
135 work sensibly for the very first time.
136
1372.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
138 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
139 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
140 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
141 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
142
1432.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
144 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
145 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
146 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
147 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
148 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
149 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
150 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
151 have a larger range then.
152 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
153 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
154 - readahead emulation now returns something.
155 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
156 (should never happen, though).
157 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
158 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
159 too many functions with crashing versions.
160
1612.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
162 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
163
1642.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
165 - added aio_rmtree.
166 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
167 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
168 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
169 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
170 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
171
1722.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
173 - added aio_load.
174
1752.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
176 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
177 or crashes.
178
1792.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
180 - minor doc updates.
181 - minor cleanups.
182 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
183 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
184
1852.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
186 - minor doc updates.
187 - added aio_readlink.
188 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
189 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
190 - reduced size of aio request structure.
191 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
192 do not leak request in that case, either.
193
1942.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
195 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
196 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
197 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
198 it would have to copy files manually.
199 - doc updates.
200 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
201 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
202 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
203 - some tuning applied to random places.
204 - add aio_mknod.
205
2062.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
207 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
208 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
209 - aio requests can be cancelled.
210 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
211 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
212 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
213 into composite requests.
214 - generator interface for groups.
215 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
216 - major documentation improvements.
217 - very minor bugfixes.
218 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
219 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
220 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
221 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
222 putting them onto the stack.
223 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
224 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
225 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
226 - warn about broken perl malloc.
227 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
228 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
229 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
230
2311.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
232 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
233
2341.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
235 - codename "jost"
236 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
237 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
238 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
239
2401.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
241 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
242 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
243
2441.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
245 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
246 in a runtime error.
247
2481.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
249 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
250 - added AnyEvent example.
251
2521.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
253 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
254 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
255 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
256 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
257 wasting memory).
258
2591.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
260 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
261 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
262 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
263 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
264 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
265
2661.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
4 - create the aio threads on demand only. 267 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
5 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 268 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
6 be C89 compatible, but no guarentees for future ones. 269 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
270 - abort when the configure script fails.
7 271
81.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 2721.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
9 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 273 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
10 deadlocks. 274 deadlocks.
11 275
121.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 2761.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
13 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 277 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
14 eating them. 278 eating them.

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