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2 2
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 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
10 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
11
123.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
13 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
14 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
15 has added something to the group or not.
16
173.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
18 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
19 and decreased memory usage.
20 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
21 but seems more correct.
22 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
23 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
24 requiring a thread switch.
25 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
26 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
27
283.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
29 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
30
313.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
32 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
33 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
34 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
35
363.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
37 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
38 (sic!) versions.
39
403.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
41 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
42 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
43 is stupid.
44 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
45 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
46 not to get initialised properly.
47
483.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
49 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
50 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
51 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
52 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
53 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
54
553.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
56 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
57 - bring back working fchmod.
58 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
59 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
60
613.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
62 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
63 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
64 - do not try to link against -lrt.
65 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
66
673.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
68 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
69 - switched to using libeio.
70 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
71 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
72 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
73 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
74
752.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
76 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
77 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
78 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
79 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
80
812.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
82 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
83 also display files given on the commandline.
84 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
85 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
86 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
87 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
88 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
89 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
90 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
91
922.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
93 - added aio_sync.
94 - added aio_pathsync.
95 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
96
972.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
98 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
99 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
100 (see the manpage for details).
101 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
102 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
103 - minor code cleanups.
104
1052.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
106 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
107 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
108 work sensibly for the very first time.
109
1102.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
111 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
112 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
113 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
114 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
115
1162.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
117 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
118 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
119 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
120 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
121 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
122 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
123 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
124 have a larger range then.
125 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
126 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
127 - readahead emulation now returns something.
128 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
129 (should never happen, though).
130 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
131 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
132 too many functions with crashing versions.
133
1342.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
135 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
136
1372.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
138 - added aio_rmtree.
139 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
140 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
141 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
142 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
143 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
144
1452.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
146 - added aio_load.
147
1482.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
149 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
150 or crashes.
151
1522.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
153 - minor doc updates.
154 - minor cleanups.
155 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
156 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
157
1582.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
159 - minor doc updates.
160 - added aio_readlink.
161 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
162 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
163 - reduced size of aio request structure.
164 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
165 do not leak request in that case, either.
166
1672.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
168 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
169 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
170 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
171 it would have to copy files manually.
172 - doc updates.
173 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
174 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
175 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
176 - some tuning applied to random places.
177 - add aio_mknod.
178
1792.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
180 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
181 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
182 - aio requests can be cancelled.
183 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
184 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
185 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
186 into composite requests.
187 - generator interface for groups.
188 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
189 - major documentation improvements.
190 - very minor bugfixes.
191 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
192 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
193 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
194 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
195 putting them onto the stack.
196 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
197 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
198 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
199 - warn about broken perl malloc.
200 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
201 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
202 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
203
2041.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
205 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
206
2071.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
208 - codename "jost"
209 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
210 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
211 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
212
2131.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
214 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
215 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
216
2171.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
218 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
219 in a runtime error.
220
2211.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
222 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
223 - added AnyEvent example.
224
2251.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
226 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
227 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
228 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
229 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
230 wasting memory).
231
2321.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
233 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
234 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
235 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
236 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
237 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
238
2391.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
240 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
241 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
242 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
243 - abort when the configure script fails.
244
2451.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
246 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
247 deadlocks.
248
2491.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
250 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
251 eating them.
252 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
253 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
254 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
255 length after reading.
256 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
257 from the parent.
258 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
259 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
260 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
261 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
262 scalar for better error reporting.
263
2641.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
265 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
266 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
267 the external filename encoding first.
268 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
269 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
270 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
271 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
272 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
273 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
274 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
275 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
276 error catching.
277
2781.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
279 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
280 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
281 feedback yet).
282 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
283 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
284 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
285 from Linux::AIO.
286 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
287 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
288 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
289 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
290 the fd to an fh.
291 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
292 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
293 properly encode your pathnames.
294
2951.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
296 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
297 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
298 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
299 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
300
3010.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
302 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
303 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
304 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
305 from Linux::AIO.
306 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
307 does not implement pread/pwrite).
308 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
309
3100.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
311 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
312 need it anyway.
313 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
314 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
315
3160.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
317 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
318 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
319
3200.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
3 - restructured manpage. 321 - restructured manpage.
322 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
323 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
324 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
4 325
50.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005 3260.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
6 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 327 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
7 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 328 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
8 communications for most requests and responses. 329 communications for most requests and responses.

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