1 SimGrid (3.9) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Now works on Windows too!
5 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
7 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
9 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
11 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
14 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
16 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
18 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
20 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
23 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
24 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
25 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
26 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
27 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
28 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
29 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
30 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
31 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
32 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
33 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
35 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
36 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
37 points in the library helps us).
38 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
39 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
40 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
43 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
44 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
47 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
48 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
50 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
51 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
52 purpose ("on" by default).
55 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
56 survive the host they are running onto.
57 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
59 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
60 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
63 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
64 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
66 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
67 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
68 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
69 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
70 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
71 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
72 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
74 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
75 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
76 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
77 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
79 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
80 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
81 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
82 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
84 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
85 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
86 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
87 (from their beginning)
88 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
92 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
93 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
94 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
95 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
97 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
98 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
99 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
100 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
101 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
102 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
103 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
104 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
107 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
108 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
109 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
110 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
111 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
112 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
116 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
117 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
118 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
119 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
120 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
121 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
122 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
125 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
126 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
127 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
128 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
129 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
131 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
133 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
136 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
137 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
138 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
141 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
144 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
145 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
146 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
149 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
152 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
153 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
154 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
155 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
157 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
158 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
159 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
160 feature, any help would be really welcome.
162 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
164 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
166 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
169 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
170 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
171 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
172 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
173 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
174 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
175 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
176 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
177 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
178 Accuracy should be improved this way.
179 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
180 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
181 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
182 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
183 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
184 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
185 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
186 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
187 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
188 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
189 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
190 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
191 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
192 network/coordinates, and document it
193 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
194 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
195 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
196 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
197 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
200 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
201 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
202 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
203 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
204 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
205 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
206 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
207 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
208 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
209 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
210 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
211 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
214 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
215 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
216 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
217 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
218 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
219 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
220 execution mode (raw contexts only)
221 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
222 synchronization structures.
223 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
224 in very specific conditions.
227 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
228 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
229 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
230 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
231 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
232 This is released anyway because YMMV.
235 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
236 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
240 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
243 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
244 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
245 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
246 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
247 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
248 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
249 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
250 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
251 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
252 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
253 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
254 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
255 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
256 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
257 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
258 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
261 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
262 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
263 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
264 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
265 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
268 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
269 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
270 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
274 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
275 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
277 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
278 don't exists anymore.
279 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
281 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
282 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
283 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
284 deprecated in the next release.
285 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
286 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
288 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
289 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
290 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
291 element is not found.
293 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
294 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
296 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
297 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
298 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
299 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
300 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
301 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
302 necessary at this point to get MC working.
304 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
305 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
307 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
309 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
311 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
314 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
315 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
316 (portable) ones when possible.
317 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
318 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
319 * Update the XML platforms:
320 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
321 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
322 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
324 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
325 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
326 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
328 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
329 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
332 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
333 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
334 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
335 its compilation burden
336 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
337 * Port to Windows 64 bits
338 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
339 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
340 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
341 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
342 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
343 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
346 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
348 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
350 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
353 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
354 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
355 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
356 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
357 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
360 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
362 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
364 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
366 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
369 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
370 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
371 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
373 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
374 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
376 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
377 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
378 but it may soon become the case.
381 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
382 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
383 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
384 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
385 local static variables.
386 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
390 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
391 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
392 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
394 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
395 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
396 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
397 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
399 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
400 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
401 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
402 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
403 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
404 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
405 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
406 index of a finished communication (if any).
407 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
410 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
411 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
412 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
413 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
415 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
416 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
417 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
418 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
419 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
420 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
421 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
422 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
425 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
427 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
428 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
429 do the work in an efficient manner.
430 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
431 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
432 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
433 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
434 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
435 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
436 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
437 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
438 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
439 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
441 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
445 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
446 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
447 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
448 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
449 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
450 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
451 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
452 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
453 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
454 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
455 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
456 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
458 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
459 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
463 * New configuration options
464 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
465 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
466 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
467 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
468 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
469 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
470 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
472 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
473 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
474 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
475 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
476 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
477 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
478 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
479 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
480 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
482 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
483 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
484 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
485 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
486 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
487 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
488 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
491 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
492 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
493 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
494 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
495 could rely on that macro to adapt.
496 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
497 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
498 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
499 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
500 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
502 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
504 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
507 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
508 Check SIN#1 for more details.
511 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
512 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
513 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
514 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
515 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
516 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
517 * See also src/smpi/README
522 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
523 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
524 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
525 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
526 same for MSG and SimDag.
527 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
529 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
530 where color must be in the following format
531 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
532 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
533 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
535 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
536 - The following command-line options are supported:
537 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
538 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
539 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
540 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
541 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
542 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
543 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
544 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
545 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
546 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
548 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
549 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
550 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
551 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
552 - Collective operations are traced with states
553 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
554 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
555 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
556 is compiled with tracing enabled)
557 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
558 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
559 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
560 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
561 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
562 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
563 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
564 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
567 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
568 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
569 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
570 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
571 * New function: MSG_set_function
572 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
573 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
575 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
576 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
577 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
580 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
581 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
582 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
583 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
584 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
585 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
586 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
587 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
588 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
589 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
590 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
591 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
593 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
594 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
595 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
596 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
597 you want to use this routing scheme.
598 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
599 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
600 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
601 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
602 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
603 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
604 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
605 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
606 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
607 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
609 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
610 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
611 results when exchanging small messages.
612 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
613 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
614 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
617 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
618 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
619 dependencies are satisfied) state.
620 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
621 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
622 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
623 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
624 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
625 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
626 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
627 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
628 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
629 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
630 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
631 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
632 installation of the graphviz library.
633 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
634 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
635 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
636 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
637 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
638 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
639 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
640 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
641 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
642 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
643 using a Min-Min strategy.
644 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
645 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
647 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
648 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
651 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
652 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
653 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
654 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
655 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
656 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
657 Please use (proper) visualization instead
660 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
661 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
662 independent segments of malloc)
663 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
664 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
665 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
666 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
667 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
668 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
669 uninitialized areas during expand.
670 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
671 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
672 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
673 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
674 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
677 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
678 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
679 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
680 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
681 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
682 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
683 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
684 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
686 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
687 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
688 * Port to windows ( TM :)
689 * Fix the 'make install' target.
690 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
691 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
692 'make package' compiles a binary archive
693 * Compile java files only on need
694 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
695 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
696 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
699 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
700 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
701 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
703 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
705 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
707 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
708 This is a bug fixes release only.
712 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
715 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
716 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
717 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
720 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
721 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
724 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
725 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
726 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
728 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
730 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
732 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
734 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
735 ~> bindings were greatly improved
736 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
738 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
739 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
742 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
744 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
745 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
746 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
747 Use send/receive instead.
748 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
749 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
750 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
751 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
752 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
753 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
754 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
755 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
756 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
757 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
758 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
759 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
760 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
761 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
763 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
764 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
765 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
766 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
767 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
768 such thing for that specific task.
769 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
770 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
771 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
772 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
773 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
775 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
776 the deprecated put/get interface.
777 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
778 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
780 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
781 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
782 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
783 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
785 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
786 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
787 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
788 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
789 - Fix implementation of collective operations
790 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
792 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
793 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
794 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
795 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
796 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
798 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
800 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
801 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
802 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
803 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
804 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
805 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
806 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
808 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
809 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
810 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
811 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
812 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
814 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
815 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
816 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
817 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
818 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
819 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
821 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
822 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
823 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
824 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
825 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
826 * Refactoring context stuff:
827 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
828 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
829 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
831 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
833 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
834 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
835 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
836 o network_model -> network/model
837 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
838 * New configuration variables:
839 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
840 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
841 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
842 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
843 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
844 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
846 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
847 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
848 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
849 When so, you need to use the following functions
850 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
851 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
852 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
853 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
854 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
856 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
857 Tracing for Visualization:
858 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
859 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
860 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
861 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
862 (among other functions).
863 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
864 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
865 traces with the Triva tool is written.
866 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
869 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
870 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
871 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
872 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
873 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
874 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
875 * Added code coverage tests.
876 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
878 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
880 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
882 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
885 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
886 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
887 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
888 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
889 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
890 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
891 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
892 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
893 actions on SURF kernel.
894 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
895 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
896 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
897 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
898 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
899 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
900 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
901 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
902 availability trace files.
903 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
904 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
905 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
906 faster than the old CPU models.
907 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
908 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
909 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
910 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
913 ******************************************
914 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
915 ******************************************
916 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
917 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
918 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
919 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
920 of simulations in some cases.
921 * The new network model will change simulations!
922 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
923 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
924 Sorry for the inconvenience.
927 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
928 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
929 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
930 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
932 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
933 amd64 to confirm that gain.
936 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
937 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
940 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
941 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
942 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
943 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
944 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
945 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
946 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
949 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
950 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
951 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
952 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
953 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
954 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
955 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
956 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
957 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
958 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
959 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
960 about the task in dotty format
961 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
962 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
964 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
965 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
966 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
967 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
968 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
969 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
970 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
973 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
976 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
977 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
978 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
979 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
980 thread (used in SG only for now)
981 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
984 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
985 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
986 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
987 the comm should be done.
988 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
989 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
990 use the private link instead)
991 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
992 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
993 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
994 to make it less stupid
995 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
996 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
997 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
998 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
999 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1000 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1001 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1002 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1003 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1004 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1005 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1006 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1007 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1009 Portability report of this version:
1010 * Main portability targets:
1011 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1012 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1013 - mac leopard on i386
1014 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1015 but nothing critical.
1016 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1018 Timing report of this version:
1019 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1020 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1021 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1023 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1025 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1027 The "Need for Speed" release.
1029 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1030 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1032 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1033 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1034 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1036 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1037 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1039 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1040 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1041 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1042 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1043 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1044 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1046 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1047 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1048 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1049 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1050 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1052 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1053 alone. We have to choose between:
1054 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1055 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1056 - live with low performance
1057 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1059 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1061 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1063 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1065 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1066 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1069 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1070 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1071 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1072 => kill now useless network_card concept
1073 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1074 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1075 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1076 - Add three new models:
1077 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1078 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1079 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1080 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1081 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1083 * Simplify model declaration
1084 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1085 - Factorize stuff between models:
1088 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1089 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1090 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1091 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1092 - Rename model methods:
1093 action_free ~> action_unref
1094 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1095 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1096 - Change model methods into functions :
1097 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1099 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1100 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1101 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1102 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1103 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1105 * Improve the action object model
1106 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1107 initialization in generic_action part.
1109 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1110 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1113 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1114 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1115 => a lot of code was factorized
1116 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1117 - simpler API for the context factory
1118 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1119 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1120 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1121 and the code is a lot more readable.
1124 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1125 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1126 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1127 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1129 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1130 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1131 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1132 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1134 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1135 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1138 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1139 Shout out if you used it.
1142 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1146 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1147 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1148 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1149 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1150 * Remove the context module
1152 Portability report of this version:
1153 * Main portability targets:
1154 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1155 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1156 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1157 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1158 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1159 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1160 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1162 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1163 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1164 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1165 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1168 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1169 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1170 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1172 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1173 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1175 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1178 Timing report of this version:
1179 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1180 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1181 investigating this for next release.
1183 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1185 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1188 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1189 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1192 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1193 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1194 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1195 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1196 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1197 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1198 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1199 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1200 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1201 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1202 clean on that point too ;)
1203 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1204 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1205 This helps debugging.
1206 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1210 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1211 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1212 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1213 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1214 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1215 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1216 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1217 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1218 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1219 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1221 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1222 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1223 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1224 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1225 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1226 - failure during communications were not working
1229 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1230 process in the log messages.
1231 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1232 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1235 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1238 * Massive internal cleanups:
1239 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1240 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1242 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1243 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1244 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1245 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1247 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1248 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1249 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1250 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1251 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1254 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1255 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1256 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1259 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1260 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1261 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1262 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1266 Portability report of this version:
1267 * Main portability targets:
1268 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1269 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1270 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1271 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1272 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1273 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1274 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1277 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1278 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1279 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1280 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1281 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1282 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1285 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1286 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1287 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1289 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1292 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1294 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1298 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1299 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1301 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1304 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1305 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1306 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1308 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1309 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1311 **************************************
1312 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1313 **************************************
1314 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1315 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1316 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1317 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1319 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1320 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1322 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1323 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1324 output match an expected output [Mt].
1326 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1327 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1328 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1330 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1331 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1332 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1335 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1336 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1337 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1338 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1339 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1341 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1342 linux ones too) [Mt]
1343 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1344 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1345 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1346 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1349 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1350 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1351 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1352 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1353 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1354 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1355 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1356 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1357 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1359 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1360 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1361 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1362 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1363 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1364 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1366 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1367 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1368 root directly) [Mt].
1371 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1372 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1373 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1374 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1375 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1376 was thus designed [AL].
1377 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1378 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1380 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1382 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1383 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1384 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1387 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1389 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1390 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1391 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1393 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1395 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1399 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1400 least MSG is usable.
1402 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1403 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1404 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1405 you can write (and must)
1406 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1407 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1408 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1409 - Impacted functions:
1410 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1411 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1412 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1413 (just like the main() function)
1415 GRAS new features and improvements:
1416 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1417 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1418 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1419 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1421 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1422 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1423 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1424 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1425 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1426 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1427 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1428 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1429 No big deal usually.
1430 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1431 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1432 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1433 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1434 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1437 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1438 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1439 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1440 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1441 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1442 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1445 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1446 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1447 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1450 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1451 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1452 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1453 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1454 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1458 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1459 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1460 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1462 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1463 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1464 and allocating new ones.
1466 Documentation update:
1467 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1468 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1469 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1470 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1471 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1472 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1473 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1474 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1476 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1477 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1479 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1480 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1481 o Part 2: Message passing
1482 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1483 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1484 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1485 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1486 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1487 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1488 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1489 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1490 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1491 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1492 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1493 - A HOWTO section containing:
1494 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1495 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1496 check the examples which are still here.
1498 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1500 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1504 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1505 with these versions. [Vince]
1508 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1509 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1510 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1511 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1512 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1515 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1516 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1517 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1518 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1519 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1520 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1521 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1524 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1525 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1526 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1527 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1528 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1530 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1531 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1534 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1535 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1536 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1537 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1538 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1539 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1540 correctly handled). [AL]
1541 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1545 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1546 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1548 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1549 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1551 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1552 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1554 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1555 within a given period.
1556 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1557 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1558 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1559 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1560 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1564 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1565 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1566 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1567 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1568 * Peer management module:
1569 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1572 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1573 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1574 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1575 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1576 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1577 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1578 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1579 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1580 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1581 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1582 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1583 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1584 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1585 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1586 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1587 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1588 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1590 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1591 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1592 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1594 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1596 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1599 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1600 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1601 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1602 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1603 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1604 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1605 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1606 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1607 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1608 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1609 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1610 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1612 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1613 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1614 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1615 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1616 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1617 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1618 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1621 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1622 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1625 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1626 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1629 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1630 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1631 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1632 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1634 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1635 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1637 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1638 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1639 to be given thru annotations.
1640 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1641 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1643 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1645 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1646 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1649 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1650 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1653 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1654 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1655 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1656 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1658 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1659 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1660 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1661 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1663 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1664 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1665 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1666 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1667 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1668 everything is arrived
1669 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1671 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1673 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1674 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1675 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1676 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1677 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1678 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1681 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1682 doing as few data copy as possible.
1684 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1685 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1686 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1687 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1689 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1691 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1693 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1696 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1697 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1698 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1700 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1702 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1708 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1709 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1710 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1711 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1714 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1715 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1716 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1717 network model) if none was precised.
1720 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1722 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1723 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1724 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1725 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1726 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1727 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1728 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1730 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1731 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1733 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1734 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1736 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1737 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1738 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1739 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1740 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1741 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1743 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1744 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1746 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1748 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1752 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1753 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1756 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1757 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1759 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1762 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1764 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1765 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1768 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1769 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1770 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1771 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1772 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1773 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1774 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1775 in place before [MQ]
1778 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1779 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1780 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1781 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1782 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1783 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1784 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1785 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1786 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1789 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1790 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1793 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1794 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1796 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1797 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1798 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1799 meaning in networking community.
1802 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1803 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1804 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1805 * New module: bandwidth
1806 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1808 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1810 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1812 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1816 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1819 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1822 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1823 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1825 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1826 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1827 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1831 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1832 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1833 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1834 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1835 you need on the simulator.
1839 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1840 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1841 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1842 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1843 needed by MSG examples complications
1844 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1847 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1848 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1849 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1853 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1854 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1855 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1856 (and therefore delayed).
1857 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1858 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1859 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1860 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1861 - move some private declaration to the right place
1862 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1863 - document the module
1864 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1865 * Documentation improvements:
1866 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1867 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1869 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1871 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1873 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1876 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1877 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1881 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1882 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1884 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1885 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1886 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1887 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1888 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1889 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1890 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1891 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1892 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1893 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1896 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1897 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1899 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1902 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1904 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1906 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1910 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1911 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1912 remote compilation helpers.
1914 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1918 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1920 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1922 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1923 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1924 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1925 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1927 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1929 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1931 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1935 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1937 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1938 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1939 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1940 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1941 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1942 to write it in the changelog).
1943 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1948 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1949 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1950 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1952 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1953 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1954 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1955 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1957 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1958 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1959 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1960 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1962 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1963 lookup time (for now).
1964 Use it in msg and trp.
1965 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1966 headers between the gras components.
1967 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1968 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1969 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1971 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1973 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1975 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1977 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1979 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1980 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1981 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1982 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1983 summary of the main changes.
1985 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1986 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1987 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1988 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1989 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1990 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1991 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1992 in the documentation.
1994 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1995 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1996 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1997 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1998 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1999 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2001 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2002 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2003 with the previous version are :
2004 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2005 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2006 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2007 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2008 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2009 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2010 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2011 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2012 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2014 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2015 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2016 dictionaries that are much faster).
2018 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2020 *****************************************************************************
2021 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2022 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2023 *****************************************************************************
2026 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2027 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2028 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2031 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2034 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2035 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2036 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2038 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2039 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2040 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2041 to 'make check' over there yet.
2043 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2044 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2045 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2046 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2047 trees. One day maybe...
2048 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2049 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2050 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2051 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2054 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2055 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2057 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2058 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2059 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2060 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2062 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2063 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2065 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2066 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2067 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2068 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2069 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2070 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2072 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2073 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2074 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2075 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2076 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2077 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2078 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2079 - e_toto_t is an enum
2080 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2082 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2083 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2084 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2085 s_toto_t) is private.
2087 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2088 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2089 it changed for dynars.
2091 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2092 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2094 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2095 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2097 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2099 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2100 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2101 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2103 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2104 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2106 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2107 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2109 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2110 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2111 far more lookup than setting.
2113 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2115 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2116 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2118 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2119 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2120 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2122 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2123 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2125 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2126 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2128 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2129 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2130 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2132 - Header reorganization.
2133 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2135 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2136 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2138 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2139 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2140 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2141 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2142 This simplify the API a lot.
2144 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2145 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2146 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2147 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2150 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2152 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2153 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2156 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2157 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2160 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2161 - Finish the port to AIX.
2162 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2163 function. No idea why)
2165 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2166 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2168 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2169 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2170 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2172 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2174 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2175 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2176 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2177 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2179 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2180 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2181 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2182 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2183 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2184 hopefully usefull message.
2185 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2187 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2188 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2189 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2191 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2192 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2193 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2194 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2196 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2197 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2198 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2199 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2200 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2201 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2202 - search not dichotomial yet
2203 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2204 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2205 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2206 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2207 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2208 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2209 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2210 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2211 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2212 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2213 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2215 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2216 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2217 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2220 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2221 the ID of this type.
2223 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2224 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2225 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2226 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2227 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2228 real life and on sg in simulation).
2229 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2230 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2231 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2232 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2233 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2234 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2235 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2236 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2237 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2238 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2239 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2242 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2243 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2244 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2245 - shorted the function names:
2246 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2247 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2248 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2249 pop their size of the stack.
2250 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2251 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2252 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2253 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2255 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2256 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2257 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2258 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2260 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2261 - understand it again
2262 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2263 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2264 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2265 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2267 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2268 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2270 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2271 - Some documentation cleanups
2272 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2273 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2274 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2275 gras -> . symbolic link
2276 - make distcheck is now successful
2278 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2280 - Build shared library also
2281 - Install html doc to the right location
2282 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2283 - build tests only on make check
2285 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2287 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2288 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2289 corresponding dataset.
2291 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2293 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2294 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2295 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2296 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2298 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2299 [autoconf mechanism]
2300 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2301 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2302 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2303 Alignment is a serious matter)
2304 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2305 constraints of each types)
2306 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2308 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2309 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2310 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2311 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2312 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2313 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2314 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2316 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2317 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2319 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2320 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2321 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2323 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2324 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2325 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2326 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2327 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2329 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2330 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2331 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2332 generated as first byte.
2333 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2334 architecture descriptions.
2335 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2336 on those architectures.
2337 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2339 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2340 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2342 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2343 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2344 settings will be separated
2345 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2347 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2349 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2350 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2351 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2352 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2354 [gras_stub_generator]
2355 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2357 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2358 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2359 them all up in one shot)
2361 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2362 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2363 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2365 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2366 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2367 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2369 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2370 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2371 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2372 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2373 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2374 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2376 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2378 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2380 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2381 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2384 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2385 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2386 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2388 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2390 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2392 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2394 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2395 - kill a few lines of dead code
2396 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2397 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2398 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2400 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2401 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2403 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2404 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2405 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2407 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2409 - Porting to new standards.
2411 - interface cleanup.
2412 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2413 pointers behind "ID".
2414 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2415 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2416 interleaved, but anyway.
2418 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2420 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2422 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2423 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2424 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
2426 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2428 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2430 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2431 - send/receive function.
2432 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2433 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2434 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2435 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2436 - base types: int, float
2437 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2438 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2439 - chained list, graph with cycle
2440 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2441 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2445 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2447 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2449 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2450 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2452 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2454 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2455 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2456 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2458 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2459 (the latter function is removed)
2460 [Conditional execution]
2461 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2462 [Code reorganisation]
2463 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2464 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2465 its creation for now.
2467 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2468 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since