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Revision 1.143 by root, Sat May 10 18:06:41 2008 UTC

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2 2
3 - (experimental) sendfile support, including sendfile emulation 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
8
9 - lots of incompatible changes:
10 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
11 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
12 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
13
142.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
15 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
16 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
17 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
18 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
19
202.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
21 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
22 also display files given on the commandline.
23 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
24 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
25 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
26 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
27 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
28 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
29 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
30
312.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
32 - added aio_sync.
33 - added aio_pathsync.
34 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
35
362.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
37 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
38 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
39 (see the manpage for details).
40 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
41 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
42 - minor code cleanups.
43
442.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
45 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
46 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
47 work sensibly for the very first time.
48
492.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
50 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
51 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
52 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
53 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
54
552.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
56 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
57 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
58 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
59 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
60 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
61 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
62 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
63 have a larger range then.
64 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
65 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
66 - readahead emulation now returns something.
67 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
68 (should never happen, though).
69 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
70 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
71 too many functions with crashing versions.
72
732.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
74 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
75
762.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
77 - added aio_rmtree.
78 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
79 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
80 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
81 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
82 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
83
842.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
85 - added aio_load.
86
872.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
88 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
89 or crashes.
90
912.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
92 - minor doc updates.
93 - minor cleanups.
94 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
95 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
96
972.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
98 - minor doc updates.
99 - added aio_readlink.
100 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
101 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
102 - reduced size of aio request structure.
103 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
104 do not leak request in that case, either.
105
1062.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
107 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
108 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
109 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
110 it would have to copy files manually.
111 - doc updates.
112 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
113 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
114 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
115 - some tuning applied to random places.
116 - add aio_mknod.
117
1182.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
119 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
120 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
121 - aio requests can be cancelled.
122 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
123 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
124 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
125 into composite requests.
126 - generator interface for groups.
127 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
128 - major documentation improvements.
129 - very minor bugfixes.
130 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
131 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
132 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
133 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
134 putting them onto the stack.
135 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
136 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
137 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
138 - warn about broken perl malloc.
139 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
140 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
141 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
142
1431.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
144 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
145
1461.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
147 - codename "jost"
148 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
149 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
150 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
151
1521.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
153 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
154 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
155
1561.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
157 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
158 in a runtime error.
159
1601.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
161 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
162 - added AnyEvent example.
163
1641.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
165 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
166 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
167 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
168 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
169 wasting memory).
170
1711.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
172 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
173 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
4 when sendfile isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might 174 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
5 work (sendfilev support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine...). 175 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
176 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
6 177
71.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005 1781.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
8 - create the aio threads on demand only. 179 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
9 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 180 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
10 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones. 181 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
11 - abort when the configure script fails. 182 - abort when the configure script fails.
12 183
131.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 1841.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
14 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 185 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
15 deadlocks. 186 deadlocks.
16 187
171.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 1881.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
18 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 189 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
19 eating them. 190 eating them.

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