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Revision: 1.126
Committed: Sun Jun 3 09:44:17 2007 UTC (16 years, 11 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6 TODO: fix setsig
7 TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
8
9 2.4
10 - fix aio_busy w.r.t. fractional delays.
11 - add aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux successfully demonstrated
12 that you can block on futimes...).
13 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
14 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
15 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
16 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
17 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
18 have a larger range then.
19 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
20 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
21 (should never happen, though).
22
23 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
24 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
25
26 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
27 - added aio_rmtree.
28 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
29 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
30 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
31 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
32 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
33
34 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
35 - added aio_load.
36
37 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
38 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
39 or crashes.
40
41 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
42 - minor doc updates.
43 - minor cleanups.
44 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
45 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
46
47 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
48 - minor doc updates.
49 - added aio_readlink.
50 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
51 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
52 - reduced size of aio request structure.
53 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
54 do not leak request in that case, either.
55
56 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
57 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
58 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
59 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
60 it would have to copy files manually.
61 - doc updates.
62 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
63 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
64 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
65 - some tuning applied to random places.
66 - add aio_mknod.
67
68 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
69 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
70 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
71 - aio requests can be cancelled.
72 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
73 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
74 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
75 into composite requests.
76 - generator interface for groups.
77 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
78 - major documentation improvements.
79 - very minor bugfixes.
80 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
81 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
82 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
83 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
84 putting them onto the stack.
85 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
86 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
87 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
88 - warn about broken perl malloc.
89 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
90 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
91 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
92
93 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
94 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
95
96 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
97 - codename "jost"
98 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
99 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
100 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
101
102 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
103 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
104 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
105
106 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
107 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
108 in a runtime error.
109
110 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
111 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
112 - added AnyEvent example.
113
114 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
115 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
116 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
117 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
118 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
119 wasting memory).
120
121 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
122 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
123 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
124 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
125 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
126 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
127
128 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
129 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
130 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
131 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
132 - abort when the configure script fails.
133
134 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
135 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
136 deadlocks.
137
138 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
139 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
140 eating them.
141 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
142 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
143 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
144 length after reading.
145 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
146 from the parent.
147 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
148 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
149 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
150 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
151 scalar for better error reporting.
152
153 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
154 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
155 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
156 the external filename encoding first.
157 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
158 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
159 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
160 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
161 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
162 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
163 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
164 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
165 error catching.
166
167 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
168 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
169 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
170 feedback yet).
171 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
172 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
173 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
174 from Linux::AIO.
175 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
176 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
177 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
178 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
179 the fd to an fh.
180 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
181 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
182 properly encode your pathnames.
183
184 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
185 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
186 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
187 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
188 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
189
190 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
191 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
192 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
193 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
194 from Linux::AIO.
195 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
196 does not implement pread/pwrite).
197 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
198
199 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
200 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
201 need it anyway.
202 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
203 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
204
205 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
206 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
207 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
208
209 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
210 - restructured manpage.
211 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
212 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
213 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
214
215 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
216 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
217 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
218 communications for most requests and responses.
219
220 0.1
221 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
222