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Revision: 1.190
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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? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
9 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
10 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
11 - install bin/treescan by default.
12 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
13 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
14 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
15 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
16 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
17 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
18 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
19
20 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
21 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
22 not restore the file offset.
23 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
24 the names in various ways.
25 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
26 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
27 process. no more!
28 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
29
30 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
31 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
32 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
33 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
34
35 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
36 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
37 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
38
39 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
40 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
41 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
42
43 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
44 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
45 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
46
47 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
48 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
49 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
50 has added something to the group or not.
51
52 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
53 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
54 and decreased memory usage.
55 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
56 but seems more correct.
57 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
58 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
59 requiring a thread switch.
60 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
61 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
62
63 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
64 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
65
66 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
67 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
68 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
69 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
70
71 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
72 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
73 (sic!) versions.
74
75 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
76 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
77 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
78 is stupid.
79 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
80 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
81 not to get initialised properly.
82
83 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
84 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
85 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
86 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
87 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
88 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
89
90 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
91 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
92 - bring back working fchmod.
93 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
94 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
95
96 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
97 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
98 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
99 - do not try to link against -lrt.
100 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
101
102 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
103 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
104 - switched to using libeio.
105 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
106 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
107 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
108 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
109
110 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
111 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
112 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
113 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
114 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
115
116 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
117 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
118 also display files given on the commandline.
119 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
120 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
121 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
122 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
123 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
124 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
125 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
126
127 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
128 - added aio_sync.
129 - added aio_pathsync.
130 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
131
132 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
133 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
134 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
135 (see the manpage for details).
136 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
137 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
138 - minor code cleanups.
139
140 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
141 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
142 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
143 work sensibly for the very first time.
144
145 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
146 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
147 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
148 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
149 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
150
151 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
152 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
153 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
154 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
155 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
156 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
157 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
158 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
159 have a larger range then.
160 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
161 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
162 - readahead emulation now returns something.
163 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
164 (should never happen, though).
165 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
166 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
167 too many functions with crashing versions.
168
169 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
170 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
171
172 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
173 - added aio_rmtree.
174 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
175 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
176 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
177 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
178 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
179
180 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
181 - added aio_load.
182
183 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
184 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
185 or crashes.
186
187 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
188 - minor doc updates.
189 - minor cleanups.
190 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
191 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
192
193 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
194 - minor doc updates.
195 - added aio_readlink.
196 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
197 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
198 - reduced size of aio request structure.
199 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
200 do not leak request in that case, either.
201
202 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
203 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
204 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
205 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
206 it would have to copy files manually.
207 - doc updates.
208 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
209 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
210 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
211 - some tuning applied to random places.
212 - add aio_mknod.
213
214 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
215 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
216 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
217 - aio requests can be cancelled.
218 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
219 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
220 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
221 into composite requests.
222 - generator interface for groups.
223 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
224 - major documentation improvements.
225 - very minor bugfixes.
226 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
227 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
228 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
229 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
230 putting them onto the stack.
231 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
232 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
233 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
234 - warn about broken perl malloc.
235 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
236 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
237 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
238
239 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
240 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
241
242 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
243 - codename "jost"
244 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
245 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
246 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
247
248 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
249 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
250 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
251
252 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
253 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
254 in a runtime error.
255
256 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
257 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
258 - added AnyEvent example.
259
260 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
261 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
262 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
263 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
264 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
265 wasting memory).
266
267 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
268 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
269 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
270 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
271 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
272 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
273
274 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
275 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
276 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
277 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
278 - abort when the configure script fails.
279
280 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
281 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
282 deadlocks.
283
284 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
285 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
286 eating them.
287 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
288 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
289 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
290 length after reading.
291 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
292 from the parent.
293 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
294 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
295 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
296 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
297 scalar for better error reporting.
298
299 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
300 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
301 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
302 the external filename encoding first.
303 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
304 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
305 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
306 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
307 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
308 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
309 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
310 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
311 error catching.
312
313 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
314 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
315 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
316 feedback yet).
317 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
318 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
319 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
320 from Linux::AIO.
321 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
322 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
323 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
324 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
325 the fd to an fh.
326 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
327 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
328 properly encode your pathnames.
329
330 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
331 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
332 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
333 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
334 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
335
336 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
337 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
338 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
339 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
340 from Linux::AIO.
341 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
342 does not implement pread/pwrite).
343 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
344
345 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
346 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
347 need it anyway.
348 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
349 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
350
351 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
352 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
353 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
354
355 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
356 - restructured manpage.
357 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
358 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
359 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
360
361 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
362 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
363 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
364 communications for most requests and responses.
365
366 0.1
367 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
368