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Revision: 1.160
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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: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
9 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
10 versions (omg).
11
12 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
13 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
14 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
15 is stupid.
16 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
17 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
18 not to get initialised properly.
19
20 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
21 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
22 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
23 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
24 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
25 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
26
27 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
28 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
29 - bring back working fchmod.
30 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
31 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
32
33 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
34 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
35 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
36 - do not try to link against -lrt.
37 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
38
39 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
40 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
41 - switched to using libeio.
42 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
43 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
44 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
45 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
46
47 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
48 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
49 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
50 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
51 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
52
53 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
54 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
55 also display files given on the commandline.
56 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
57 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
58 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
59 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
60 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
61 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
62 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
63
64 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
65 - added aio_sync.
66 - added aio_pathsync.
67 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
68
69 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
70 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
71 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
72 (see the manpage for details).
73 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
74 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
75 - minor code cleanups.
76
77 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
78 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
79 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
80 work sensibly for the very first time.
81
82 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
83 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
84 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
85 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
86 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
87
88 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
89 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
90 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
91 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
92 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
93 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
94 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
95 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
96 have a larger range then.
97 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
98 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
99 - readahead emulation now returns something.
100 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
101 (should never happen, though).
102 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
103 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
104 too many functions with crashing versions.
105
106 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
107 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
108
109 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
110 - added aio_rmtree.
111 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
112 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
113 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
114 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
115 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
116
117 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
118 - added aio_load.
119
120 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
121 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
122 or crashes.
123
124 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
125 - minor doc updates.
126 - minor cleanups.
127 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
128 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
129
130 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
131 - minor doc updates.
132 - added aio_readlink.
133 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
134 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
135 - reduced size of aio request structure.
136 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
137 do not leak request in that case, either.
138
139 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
140 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
141 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
142 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
143 it would have to copy files manually.
144 - doc updates.
145 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
146 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
147 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
148 - some tuning applied to random places.
149 - add aio_mknod.
150
151 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
152 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
153 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
154 - aio requests can be cancelled.
155 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
156 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
157 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
158 into composite requests.
159 - generator interface for groups.
160 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
161 - major documentation improvements.
162 - very minor bugfixes.
163 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
164 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
165 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
166 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
167 putting them onto the stack.
168 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
169 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
170 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
171 - warn about broken perl malloc.
172 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
173 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
174 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
175
176 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
177 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
178
179 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
180 - codename "jost"
181 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
182 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
183 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
184
185 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
186 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
187 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
188
189 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
190 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
191 in a runtime error.
192
193 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
194 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
195 - added AnyEvent example.
196
197 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
198 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
199 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
200 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
201 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
202 wasting memory).
203
204 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
205 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
206 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
207 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
208 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
209 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
210
211 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
212 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
213 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
214 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
215 - abort when the configure script fails.
216
217 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
218 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
219 deadlocks.
220
221 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
222 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
223 eating them.
224 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
225 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
226 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
227 length after reading.
228 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
229 from the parent.
230 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
231 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
232 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
233 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
234 scalar for better error reporting.
235
236 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
237 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
238 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
239 the external filename encoding first.
240 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
241 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
242 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
243 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
244 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
245 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
246 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
247 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
248 error catching.
249
250 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
251 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
252 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
253 feedback yet).
254 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
255 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
256 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
257 from Linux::AIO.
258 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
259 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
260 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
261 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
262 the fd to an fh.
263 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
264 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
265 properly encode your pathnames.
266
267 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
268 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
269 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
270 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
271 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
272
273 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
274 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
275 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
276 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
277 from Linux::AIO.
278 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
279 does not implement pread/pwrite).
280 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
281
282 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
283 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
284 need it anyway.
285 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
286 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
287
288 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
289 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
290 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
291
292 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
293 - restructured manpage.
294 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
295 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
296 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
297
298 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
299 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
300 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
301 communications for most requests and responses.
302
303 0.1
304 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
305