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Revision: 1.171
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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 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
10 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
11 has added something to the group or not.
12
13 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
14 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
15 and decreased memory usage.
16 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
17 but seems more correct.
18 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
19 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
20 requiring a thread switch.
21 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
22 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
23
24 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
25 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
26
27 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
28 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
29 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
30 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
31
32 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
33 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
34 (sic!) versions.
35
36 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
37 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
38 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
39 is stupid.
40 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
41 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
42 not to get initialised properly.
43
44 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
45 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
46 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
47 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
48 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
49 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
50
51 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
52 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
53 - bring back working fchmod.
54 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
55 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
56
57 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
58 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
59 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
60 - do not try to link against -lrt.
61 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
62
63 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
64 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
65 - switched to using libeio.
66 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
67 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
68 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
69 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
70
71 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
72 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
73 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
74 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
75 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
76
77 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
78 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
79 also display files given on the commandline.
80 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
81 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
82 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
83 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
84 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
85 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
86 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
87
88 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
89 - added aio_sync.
90 - added aio_pathsync.
91 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
92
93 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
94 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
95 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
96 (see the manpage for details).
97 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
98 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
99 - minor code cleanups.
100
101 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
102 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
103 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
104 work sensibly for the very first time.
105
106 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
107 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
108 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
109 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
110 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
111
112 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
113 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
114 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
115 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
116 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
117 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
118 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
119 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
120 have a larger range then.
121 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
122 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
123 - readahead emulation now returns something.
124 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
125 (should never happen, though).
126 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
127 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
128 too many functions with crashing versions.
129
130 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
131 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
132
133 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
134 - added aio_rmtree.
135 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
136 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
137 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
138 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
139 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
140
141 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
142 - added aio_load.
143
144 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
145 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
146 or crashes.
147
148 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
149 - minor doc updates.
150 - minor cleanups.
151 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
152 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
153
154 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
155 - minor doc updates.
156 - added aio_readlink.
157 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
158 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
159 - reduced size of aio request structure.
160 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
161 do not leak request in that case, either.
162
163 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
164 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
165 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
166 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
167 it would have to copy files manually.
168 - doc updates.
169 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
170 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
171 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
172 - some tuning applied to random places.
173 - add aio_mknod.
174
175 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
176 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
177 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
178 - aio requests can be cancelled.
179 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
180 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
181 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
182 into composite requests.
183 - generator interface for groups.
184 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
185 - major documentation improvements.
186 - very minor bugfixes.
187 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
188 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
189 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
190 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
191 putting them onto the stack.
192 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
193 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
194 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
195 - warn about broken perl malloc.
196 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
197 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
198 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
199
200 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
201 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
202
203 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
204 - codename "jost"
205 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
206 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
207 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
208
209 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
210 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
211 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
212
213 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
214 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
215 in a runtime error.
216
217 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
218 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
219 - added AnyEvent example.
220
221 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
222 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
223 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
224 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
225 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
226 wasting memory).
227
228 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
229 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
230 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
231 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
232 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
233 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
234
235 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
236 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
237 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
238 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
239 - abort when the configure script fails.
240
241 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
242 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
243 deadlocks.
244
245 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
246 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
247 eating them.
248 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
249 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
250 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
251 length after reading.
252 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
253 from the parent.
254 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
255 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
256 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
257 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
258 scalar for better error reporting.
259
260 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
261 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
262 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
263 the external filename encoding first.
264 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
265 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
266 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
267 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
268 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
269 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
270 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
271 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
272 error catching.
273
274 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
275 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
276 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
277 feedback yet).
278 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
279 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
280 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
281 from Linux::AIO.
282 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
283 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
284 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
285 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
286 the fd to an fh.
287 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
288 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
289 properly encode your pathnames.
290
291 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
292 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
293 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
294 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
295 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
296
297 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
298 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
299 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
300 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
301 from Linux::AIO.
302 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
303 does not implement pread/pwrite).
304 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
305
306 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
307 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
308 need it anyway.
309 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
310 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
311
312 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
313 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
314 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
315
316 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
317 - restructured manpage.
318 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
319 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
320 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
321
322 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
323 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
324 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
325 communications for most requests and responses.
326
327 0.1
328 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
329