--- IO-AIO/README 2011/07/18 03:09:06 1.49 +++ IO-AIO/README 2012/04/10 05:01:33 1.52 @@ -152,8 +152,10 @@ for quick reference. See the following sections for function-by-function documentation. + aio_wd $pathname, $callback->($wd) aio_open $pathname, $flags, $mode, $callback->($fh) aio_close $fh, $callback->($status) + aio_seek $fh,$offset,$whence, $callback->($offs) aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) aio_sendfile $out_fh, $in_fh, $in_offset, $length, $callback->($retval) @@ -163,14 +165,14 @@ aio_statvfs $fh_or_path, $callback->($statvfs) aio_utime $fh_or_path, $atime, $mtime, $callback->($status) aio_chown $fh_or_path, $uid, $gid, $callback->($status) - aio_truncate $fh_or_path, $offset, $callback->($status) aio_chmod $fh_or_path, $mode, $callback->($status) + aio_truncate $fh_or_path, $offset, $callback->($status) aio_unlink $pathname, $callback->($status) - aio_mknod $path, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) + aio_mknod $pathname, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) aio_link $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) aio_symlink $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) - aio_readlink $path, $callback->($link) - aio_realpath $path, $callback->($link) + aio_readlink $pathname, $callback->($link) + aio_realpath $pathname, $callback->($link) aio_rename $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) aio_mkdir $pathname, $mode, $callback->($status) aio_rmdir $pathname, $callback->($status) @@ -178,16 +180,17 @@ aio_readdirx $pathname, $flags, $callback->($entries, $flags) IO::AIO::READDIR_DENTS IO::AIO::READDIR_DIRS_FIRST IO::AIO::READDIR_STAT_ORDER IO::AIO::READDIR_FOUND_UNKNOWN - aio_load $path, $data, $callback->($status) + aio_scandir $pathname, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) + aio_load $pathname, $data, $callback->($status) aio_copy $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) aio_move $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) - aio_scandir $path, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) - aio_rmtree $path, $callback->($status) + aio_rmtree $pathname, $callback->($status) aio_sync $callback->($status) + aio_syncfs $fh, $callback->($status) aio_fsync $fh, $callback->($status) aio_fdatasync $fh, $callback->($status) aio_sync_file_range $fh, $offset, $nbytes, $flags, $callback->($status) - aio_pathsync $path, $callback->($status) + aio_pathsync $pathname, $callback->($status) aio_msync $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) aio_mtouch $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) aio_mlock $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, $callback->($status) @@ -220,14 +223,19 @@ IO::AIO::munlock $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef IO::AIO::munlockall - AIO REQUEST FUNCTIONS + API NOTES All the "aio_*" calls are more or less thin wrappers around the syscall with the same name (sans "aio_"). The arguments are similar or identical, and they all accept an additional (and optional) $callback - argument which must be a code reference. This code reference will get - called with the syscall return code (e.g. most syscalls return -1 on - error, unlike perl, which usually delivers "false") as its sole argument - after the given syscall has been executed asynchronously. + argument which must be a code reference. This code reference will be + called after the syscall has been executed in an asynchronous fashion. + The results of the request will be passed as arguments to the callback + (and, if an error occured, in $!) - for most requests the syscall return + code (e.g. most syscalls return -1 on error, unlike perl, which usually + delivers "false"). + + Some requests (such as "aio_readdir") pass the actual results and + communicate failures by passing "undef". All functions expecting a filehandle keep a copy of the filehandle internally until the request has finished. @@ -235,23 +243,27 @@ All functions return request objects of type IO::AIO::REQ that allow further manipulation of those requests while they are in-flight. - The pathnames you pass to these routines *must* be absolute and encoded - as octets. The reason for the former is that at the time the request is - being executed, the current working directory could have changed. - Alternatively, you can make sure that you never change the current - working directory anywhere in the program and then use relative paths. + The pathnames you pass to these routines *should* be absolute. The + reason for this is that at the time the request is being executed, the + current working directory could have changed. Alternatively, you can + make sure that you never change the current working directory anywhere + in the program and then use relative paths. You can also take advantage + of IO::AIOs working directory abstraction, that lets you specify paths + relative to some previously-opened "working directory object" - see the + description of the "IO::AIO::WD" class later in this document. To encode pathnames as octets, either make sure you either: a) always pass in filenames you got from outside (command line, readdir etc.) - without tinkering, b) are ASCII or ISO 8859-1, c) use the Encode module - and encode your pathnames to the locale (or other) encoding in effect in - the user environment, d) use Glib::filename_from_unicode on unicode - filenames or e) use something else to ensure your scalar has the correct - contents. + without tinkering, b) are in your native filesystem encoding, c) use the + Encode module and encode your pathnames to the locale (or other) + encoding in effect in the user environment, d) use + Glib::filename_from_unicode on unicode filenames or e) use something + else to ensure your scalar has the correct contents. This works, btw. independent of the internal UTF-8 bit, which IO::AIO handles correctly whether it is set or not. + AIO REQUEST FUNCTIONS $prev_pri = aioreq_pri [$pri] Returns the priority value that would be used for the next request and, if $pri is given, sets the priority for the next aio request. @@ -333,6 +345,25 @@ Or in other words: the file descriptor will be closed, but it will not be free for reuse until the perl filehandle is closed. + aio_seek $fh, $offset, $whence, $callback->($offs) + Seeks the filehandle to the new $offset, similarly to perl's + "sysseek". The $whence can use the traditional values (0 for + "IO::AIO::SEEK_SET", 1 for "IO::AIO::SEEK_CUR" or 2 for + "IO::AIO::SEEK_END"). + + The resulting absolute offset will be passed to the callback, or -1 + in case of an error. + + In theory, the $whence constants could be different than the + corresponding values from Fcntl, but perl guarantees they are the + same, so don't panic. + + As a GNU/Linux (and maybe Solaris) extension, also the constants + "IO::AIO::SEEK_DATA" and "IO::AIO::SEEK_HOLE" are available, if they + could be found. No guarantees about suitability for use in + "aio_seek" or Perl's "sysseek" can be made though, although I would + naively assume they "just work". + aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) Reads or writes $length bytes from or to the specified $fh and @@ -534,14 +565,14 @@ Asynchronously unlink (delete) a file and call the callback with the result code. - aio_mknod $path, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) + aio_mknod $pathname, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) [EXPERIMENTAL] Asynchronously create a device node (or fifo). See mknod(2). The only (POSIX-) portable way of calling this function is: - aio_mknod $path, IO::AIO::S_IFIFO | $mode, 0, sub { ... + aio_mknod $pathname, IO::AIO::S_IFIFO | $mode, 0, sub { ... See "aio_stat" for info about some potentially helpful extra constants and functions. @@ -555,12 +586,12 @@ $srcpath at the path $dstpath and call the callback with the result code. - aio_readlink $path, $callback->($link) + aio_readlink $pathname, $callback->($link) Asynchronously read the symlink specified by $path and pass it to the callback. If an error occurs, nothing or undef gets passed to the callback. - aio_realpath $path, $callback->($path) + aio_realpath $pathname, $callback->($path) Asynchronously make the path absolute and resolve any symlinks in $path. The resulting path only consists of directories (Same as Cwd::realpath). @@ -590,9 +621,9 @@ an array-ref with the filenames. aio_readdirx $pathname, $flags, $callback->($entries, $flags) - Quite similar to "aio_readdir", but the $flags argument allows to - tune behaviour and output format. In case of an error, $entries will - be "undef". + Quite similar to "aio_readdir", but the $flags argument allows one + to tune behaviour and output format. In case of an error, $entries + will be "undef". The flags are a combination of the following constants, ORed together (the flags will also be passed to the callback, possibly @@ -647,11 +678,11 @@ IO::AIO::READDIR_FOUND_UNKNOWN This flag should not be set when calling "aio_readdirx". Instead, it is being set by "aio_readdirx", when any of the - $type's found were "IO::AIO::DT_UNKNOWN". The absense of this + $type's found were "IO::AIO::DT_UNKNOWN". The absence of this flag therefore indicates that all $type's are known, which can be used to speed up some algorithms. - aio_load $path, $data, $callback->($status) + aio_load $pathname, $data, $callback->($status) This is a composite request that tries to fully load the given file into memory. Status is the same as with aio_read. @@ -678,7 +709,7 @@ if rename fails with "EXDEV", it copies the file with "aio_copy" and, if that is successful, unlinks the $srcpath. - aio_scandir $path, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) + aio_scandir $pathname, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) Scans a directory (similar to "aio_readdir") but additionally tries to efficiently separate the entries of directory $path into two sets of names, directories you can recurse into (directories), and ones @@ -721,7 +752,7 @@ every entry plus an appended "/." will be "stat"'ed, likely directories first, in order of their inode numbers. If that succeeds, it assumes that the entry is a directory or a symlink to - directory (which will be checked seperately). This is often faster + directory (which will be checked separately). This is often faster than stat'ing the entry itself because filesystems might detect the type of the entry without reading the inode data (e.g. ext2fs filetype feature), even on systems that cannot return the filetype @@ -737,7 +768,7 @@ efficiency as those tend to return 0 or 1 as link counts, which disables the directory counting heuristic. - aio_rmtree $path, $callback->($status) + aio_rmtree $pathname, $callback->($status) Delete a directory tree starting (and including) $path, return the status of the final "rmdir" only. This is a composite request that uses "aio_scandir" to recurse into and rmdir directories, and unlink @@ -757,6 +788,12 @@ If this call isn't available because your OS lacks it or it couldn't be detected, it will be emulated by calling "fsync" instead. + aio_syncfs $fh, $callback->($status) + Asynchronously call the syncfs syscall to sync the filesystem + associated to the given filehandle and call the callback with the + syncfs result code. If syncfs is not available, calls sync(), but + returns -1 and sets errno to "ENOSYS" nevertheless. + aio_sync_file_range $fh, $offset, $nbytes, $flags, $callback->($status) Sync the data portion of the file specified by $offset and $length to disk (but NOT the metadata), by calling the Linux-specific @@ -769,7 +806,7 @@ "IO::AIO::SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER": refer to the sync_file_range manpage for details. - aio_pathsync $path, $callback->($status) + aio_pathsync $pathname, $callback->($status) This request tries to open, fsync and close the given path. This is a composite request intended to sync directories after directory operations (E.g. rename). This might not work on all operating @@ -849,6 +886,47 @@ aio_mlockall IO::AIO::MCL_FUTURE; + aio_fiemap $fh, $start, $length, $flags, $count, $cb->(\@extents) + Queries the extents of the given file (by calling the Linux FIEMAP + ioctl, see for + details). If the "ioctl" is not available on your OS, then this + rquiest will fail with "ENOSYS". + + $start is the starting offset to query extents for, $length is the + size of the range to query - if it is "undef", then the whole file + will be queried. + + $flags is a combination of flags ("IO::AIO::FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC" or + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR" - "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_FLAGS_COMPAT" is + also exported), and is normally 0 or "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC" to + query the data portion. + + $count is the maximum number of extent records to return. If it is + "undef", then IO::AIO queries all extents of the file. As a very + special case, if it is 0, then the callback receives the number of + extents instead of the extents themselves. + + If an error occurs, the callback receives no arguments. The special + "errno" value "IO::AIO::EBADR" is available to test for flag errors. + + Otherwise, the callback receives an array reference with extent + structures. Each extent structure is an array reference itself, with + the following members: + + [$logical, $physical, $length, $flags] + + Flags is any combination of the following flag values (typically + either 0 or "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST"): + + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST", "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC", "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_ENCRYPTED", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_INLINE", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_TAIL", + "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN", "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED" + or "IO::AIO::FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED". + aio_group $callback->(...) This is a very special aio request: Instead of doing something, it is a container for other aio requests, which is useful if you want @@ -892,6 +970,117 @@ not use this function except to put your application under artificial I/O pressure. + IO::AIO::WD - multiple working directories + Your process only has one current working directory, which is used by + all threads. This makes it hard to use relative paths (some other + component could call "chdir" at any time, and it is hard to control when + the path will be used by IO::AIO). + + One solution for this is to always use absolute paths. This usually + works, but can be quite slow (the kernel has to walk the whole path on + every access), and can also be a hassle to implement. + + Newer POSIX systems have a number of functions (openat, fdopendir, + futimensat and so on) that make it possible to specify working + directories per operation. + + For portability, and because the clowns who "designed", or shall I + write, perpetrated this new interface were obviously half-drunk, this + abstraction cannot be perfect, though. + + IO::AIO allows you to convert directory paths into a so-called + IO::AIO::WD object. This object stores the canonicalised, absolute + version of the path, and on systems that allow it, also a directory file + descriptor. + + Everywhere where a pathname is accepted by IO::AIO (e.g. in "aio_stat" + or "aio_unlink"), one can specify an array reference with an IO::AIO::WD + object and a pathname instead (or the IO::AIO::WD object alone, which + gets interpreted as "[$wd, "."]"). If the pathname is absolute, the + IO::AIO::WD object is ignored, otherwise the pathname is resolved + relative to that IO::AIO::WD object. + + For example, to get a wd object for /etc and then stat passwd inside, + you would write: + + aio_wd "/etc", sub { + my $etcdir = shift; + + # although $etcdir can be undef on error, there is generally no reason + # to check for errors here, as aio_stat will fail with ENOENT + # when $etcdir is undef. + + aio_stat [$etcdir, "passwd"], sub { + # yay + }; + }; + + That "aio_wd" is a request and not a normal function shows that creating + an IO::AIO::WD object is itself a potentially blocking operation, which + is why it is done asynchronously. + + To stat the directory obtained with "aio_wd" above, one could write + either of the following three request calls: + + aio_lstat "/etc" , sub { ... # pathname as normal string + aio_lstat [$wd, "."], sub { ... # "." relative to $wd (i.e. $wd itself) + aio_lstat $wd , sub { ... # shorthand for the previous + + As with normal pathnames, IO::AIO keeps a copy of the working directory + object and the pathname string, so you could write the following without + causing any issues due to $path getting reused: + + my $path = [$wd, undef]; + + for my $name (qw(abc def ghi)) { + $path->[1] = $name; + aio_stat $path, sub { + # ... + }; + } + + There are some caveats: when directories get renamed (or deleted), the + pathname string doesn't change, so will point to the new directory (or + nowhere at all), while the directory fd, if available on the system, + will still point to the original directory. Most functions accepting a + pathname will use the directory fd on newer systems, and the string on + older systems. Some functions (such as realpath) will always rely on the + string form of the pathname. + + So this fucntionality is mainly useful to get some protection against + "chdir", to easily get an absolute path out of a relative path for + future reference, and to speed up doing many operations in the same + directory (e.g. when stat'ing all files in a directory). + + The following functions implement this working directory abstraction: + + aio_wd $pathname, $callback->($wd) + Asynchonously canonicalise the given pathname and convert it to an + IO::AIO::WD object representing it. If possible and supported on the + system, also open a directory fd to speed up pathname resolution + relative to this working directory. + + If something goes wrong, then "undef" is passwd to the callback + instead of a working directory object and $! is set appropriately. + Since passing "undef" as working directory component of a pathname + fails the request with "ENOENT", there is often no need for error + checking in the "aio_wd" callback, as future requests using the + value will fail in the expected way. + + If this call isn't available because your OS lacks it or it couldn't + be detected, it will be emulated by calling "fsync" instead. + + IO::AIO::CWD + This is a compiletime constant (object) that represents the process + current working directory. + + Specifying this object as working directory object for a pathname is + as if the pathname would be specified directly, without a directory + object, e.g., these calls are functionally identical: + + aio_stat "somefile", sub { ... }; + aio_stat [IO::AIO::CWD, "somefile"], sub { ... }; + IO::AIO::REQ CLASS All non-aggregate "aio_*" functions return an object of this class when called in non-void context. @@ -1000,7 +1189,7 @@ this is that, although you could just queue as many requests as you want in a group, this might starve other requests for a potentially long time. For example, "aio_scandir" might generate hundreds of - thousands "aio_stat" requests, delaying any later requests for a + thousands of "aio_stat" requests, delaying any later requests for a long time. To avoid this, and allow incremental generation of requests, you can @@ -1258,7 +1447,7 @@ IO::AIO::fadvise $fh, $offset, $len, $advice Simply calls the "posix_fadvise" function (see its manpage for - details). The following advice constants are avaiable: + details). The following advice constants are available: "IO::AIO::FADV_NORMAL", "IO::AIO::FADV_SEQUENTIAL", "IO::AIO::FADV_RANDOM", "IO::AIO::FADV_NOREUSE", "IO::AIO::FADV_WILLNEED", "IO::AIO::FADV_DONTNEED". @@ -1268,7 +1457,7 @@ IO::AIO::madvise $scalar, $offset, $len, $advice Simply calls the "posix_madvise" function (see its manpage for - details). The following advice constants are avaiable: + details). The following advice constants are available: "IO::AIO::MADV_NORMAL", "IO::AIO::MADV_SEQUENTIAL", "IO::AIO::MADV_RANDOM", "IO::AIO::MADV_WILLNEED", "IO::AIO::MADV_DONTNEED". @@ -1279,7 +1468,7 @@ IO::AIO::mprotect $scalar, $offset, $len, $protect Simply calls the "mprotect" function on the preferably AIO::mmap'ed $scalar (see its manpage for details). The following protect - constants are avaiable: "IO::AIO::PROT_NONE", "IO::AIO::PROT_READ", + constants are available: "IO::AIO::PROT_NONE", "IO::AIO::PROT_READ", "IO::AIO::PROT_WRITE", "IO::AIO::PROT_EXEC". On systems that do not implement "mprotect", this function returns @@ -1348,6 +1537,21 @@ On systems that do not implement "munlockall", this function returns ENOSYS, otherwise the return value of "munlockall". + IO::AIO::splice $r_fh, $r_off, $w_fh, $w_off, $length, $flags + Calls the GNU/Linux splice(2) syscall, if available. If $r_off or + $w_off are "undef", then "NULL" is passed for these, otherwise they + should be the file offset. + + The following symbol flag values are available: + "IO::AIO::SPLICE_F_MOVE", "IO::AIO::SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK", + "IO::AIO::SPLICE_F_MORE" and "IO::AIO::SPLICE_F_GIFT". + + See the splice(2) manpage for details. + + IO::AIO::tee $r_fh, $w_fh, $length, $flags + Calls the GNU/Linux tee(2) syscall, see it's manpage and the + description for "IO::AIO::splice" above for details. + EVENT LOOP INTEGRATION It is recommended to use AnyEvent::AIO to integrate IO::AIO automatically into many event loops: @@ -1395,9 +1599,9 @@ You could also try to call the IO::AIO::reinit function in the child: IO::AIO::reinit - Abondons all current requests and I/O threads and simply + Abandons all current requests and I/O threads and simply reinitialises all data structures. This is not an operation - suppported by any standards, but happens to work on GNU/Linux and + supported by any standards, but happens to work on GNU/Linux and some newer BSD systems. The only reasonable use for this function is to call it after