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Revision: 1.208
Committed: Thu Nov 12 01:15:36 2009 UTC (14 years, 6 months ago) by root
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CVS Tags: rel-3_31
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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 TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless.
9
10 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
11 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
12 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
13 hash lookups.
14
15 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
16 - use common::sense.
17 - use common schmorp.h header.
18 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
19 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
20 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
21
22 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
23 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
24
25 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
26 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
27 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
28 way. might help other os's too.
29
30 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
31 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
32 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
33 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
34 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
35 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
36 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
37 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
38 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
39 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
40 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
41 but should not have been.
42 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
43 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
44
45 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
46 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
47 rushed 3.22 release.
48
49 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
50 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
51 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
52
53 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
54 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
55 - install bin/treescan by default.
56 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
57 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
58 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
59 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
60 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
61 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
62 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
63
64 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
65 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
66 not restore the file offset.
67 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
68 the names in various ways.
69 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
70 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
71 process. no more!
72 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
73
74 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
75 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
76 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
77 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
78
79 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
80 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
81 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
82
83 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
84 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
85 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
86
87 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
88 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
89 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
90
91 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
92 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
93 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
94 has added something to the group or not.
95
96 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
97 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
98 and decreased memory usage.
99 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
100 but seems more correct.
101 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
102 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
103 requiring a thread switch.
104 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
105 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
106
107 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
108 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
109
110 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
111 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
112 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
113 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
114
115 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
116 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
117 (sic!) versions.
118
119 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
120 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
121 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
122 is stupid.
123 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
124 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
125 not to get initialised properly.
126
127 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
128 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
129 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
130 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
131 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
132 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
133
134 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
135 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
136 - bring back working fchmod.
137 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
138 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
139
140 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
141 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
142 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
143 - do not try to link against -lrt.
144 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
145
146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
147 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
148 - switched to using libeio.
149 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
150 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
151 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
152 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
153
154 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
155 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
156 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
157 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
158 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
159
160 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
161 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
162 also display files given on the commandline.
163 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
164 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
165 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
166 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
167 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
168 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
169 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
170
171 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
172 - added aio_sync.
173 - added aio_pathsync.
174 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
175
176 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
177 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
178 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
179 (see the manpage for details).
180 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
181 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
182 - minor code cleanups.
183
184 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
185 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
186 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
187 work sensibly for the very first time.
188
189 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
190 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
191 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
192 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
193 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
194
195 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
196 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
197 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
198 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
199 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
200 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
201 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
202 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
203 have a larger range then.
204 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
205 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
206 - readahead emulation now returns something.
207 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
208 (should never happen, though).
209 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
210 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
211 too many functions with crashing versions.
212
213 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
214 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
215
216 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
217 - added aio_rmtree.
218 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
219 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
220 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
221 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
222 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
223
224 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
225 - added aio_load.
226
227 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
228 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
229 or crashes.
230
231 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
232 - minor doc updates.
233 - minor cleanups.
234 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
235 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
236
237 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
238 - minor doc updates.
239 - added aio_readlink.
240 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
241 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
242 - reduced size of aio request structure.
243 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
244 do not leak request in that case, either.
245
246 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
247 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
248 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
249 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
250 it would have to copy files manually.
251 - doc updates.
252 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
253 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
254 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
255 - some tuning applied to random places.
256 - add aio_mknod.
257
258 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
259 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
260 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
261 - aio requests can be cancelled.
262 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
263 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
264 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
265 into composite requests.
266 - generator interface for groups.
267 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
268 - major documentation improvements.
269 - very minor bugfixes.
270 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
271 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
272 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
273 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
274 putting them onto the stack.
275 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
276 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
277 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
278 - warn about broken perl malloc.
279 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
280 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
281 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
282
283 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
284 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
285
286 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
287 - codename "jost"
288 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
289 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
290 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
291
292 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
293 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
294 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
295
296 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
297 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
298 in a runtime error.
299
300 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
301 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
302 - added AnyEvent example.
303
304 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
305 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
306 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
307 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
308 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
309 wasting memory).
310
311 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
312 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
313 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
314 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
315 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
316 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
317
318 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
319 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
320 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
321 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
322 - abort when the configure script fails.
323
324 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
325 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
326 deadlocks.
327
328 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
329 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
330 eating them.
331 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
332 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
333 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
334 length after reading.
335 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
336 from the parent.
337 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
338 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
339 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
340 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
341 scalar for better error reporting.
342
343 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
344 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
345 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
346 the external filename encoding first.
347 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
348 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
349 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
350 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
351 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
352 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
353 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
354 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
355 error catching.
356
357 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
358 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
359 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
360 feedback yet).
361 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
362 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
363 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
364 from Linux::AIO.
365 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
366 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
367 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
368 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
369 the fd to an fh.
370 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
371 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
372 properly encode your pathnames.
373
374 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
375 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
376 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
377 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
378 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
379
380 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
381 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
382 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
383 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
384 from Linux::AIO.
385 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
386 does not implement pread/pwrite).
387 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
388
389 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
390 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
391 need it anyway.
392 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
393 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
394
395 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
396 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
397 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
398
399 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
400 - restructured manpage.
401 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
402 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
403 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
404
405 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
406 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
407 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
408 communications for most requests and responses.
409
410 0.1
411 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
412