1 SimGrid (3.3-rc1) unstable; urgency=low
5 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
8 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
11 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
12 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
13 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
15 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
16 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
18 **************************************
19 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
20 **************************************
21 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
22 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
23 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
24 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
26 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
27 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
28 output match an expected output [Mt].
30 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
31 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
32 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
34 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
35 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
36 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
39 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
41 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
42 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
43 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
44 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
47 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
48 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
49 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
50 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
51 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
52 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
53 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
54 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
55 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
57 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
58 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
59 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
60 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
61 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
62 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
64 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
65 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
69 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
70 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
71 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
72 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
73 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
74 was thus designed [AL].
75 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
76 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
78 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
80 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
81 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
82 tested though [Pedro Velho].
85 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
87 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
88 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
89 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
93 SimGrid (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
97 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
100 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
101 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
102 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
103 you can write (and must)
104 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
105 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
106 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
107 - Impacted functions:
108 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
109 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
110 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
111 (just like the main() function)
113 GRAS new features and improvements:
114 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
115 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
116 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
117 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
119 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
120 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
121 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
122 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
123 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
124 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
125 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
126 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
128 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
129 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
130 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
131 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
132 bytes on quite fat pipes.
135 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
136 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
137 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
138 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
139 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
140 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
143 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
144 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
145 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
148 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
149 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
150 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
151 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
152 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
156 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
157 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
158 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
160 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
161 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
162 and allocating new ones.
164 Documentation update:
165 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
166 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
167 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
168 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
169 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
170 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
171 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
174 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
175 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
177 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
178 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
179 o Part 2: Message passing
180 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
181 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
182 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
183 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
184 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
185 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
186 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
187 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
188 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
189 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
190 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
191 - A HOWTO section containing:
192 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
193 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
194 check the examples which are still here.
196 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
198 SimGrid (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
202 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
203 with these versions. [Vince]
206 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
207 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
208 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
209 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
210 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
213 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
214 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
215 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
216 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
217 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
218 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
219 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
222 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
223 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
224 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
225 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
226 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
228 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
229 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
232 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
233 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
234 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
235 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
236 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
237 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
238 correctly handled). [AL]
239 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
243 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
244 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
246 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
247 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
249 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
250 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
252 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
253 within a given period.
254 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
255 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
256 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
257 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
258 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
262 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
263 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
264 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
265 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
266 * Peer management module:
267 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
270 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
271 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
272 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
273 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
274 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
275 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
276 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
277 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
278 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
279 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
280 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
281 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
282 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
283 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
284 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
285 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
286 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
288 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
289 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
290 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
292 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
294 SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
298 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
299 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
300 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
301 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
302 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
303 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
304 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
305 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
306 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
307 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
308 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
310 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
311 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
312 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
313 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
314 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
315 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
316 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
319 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
320 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
323 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
324 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
327 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
328 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
329 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
330 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
332 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
333 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
335 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
336 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
337 to be given thru annotations.
338 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
339 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
341 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
343 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
344 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
347 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
348 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
351 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
352 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
353 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
354 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
356 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
357 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
358 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
359 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
361 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
362 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
363 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
364 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
365 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
366 everything is arrived
367 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
369 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
371 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
372 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
373 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
374 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
375 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
376 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
379 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
380 doing as few data copy as possible.
382 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
383 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
384 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
385 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
387 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
389 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
391 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=low
394 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
395 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
396 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
398 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
400 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
405 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
406 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
407 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
408 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
409 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
412 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
413 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
414 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
415 network model) if none was precised.
418 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
420 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
421 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
422 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
423 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
424 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
425 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
426 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
428 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
429 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
431 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
432 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
434 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
435 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
436 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
437 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
438 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
439 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
441 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
442 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
444 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
446 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
450 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
451 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
454 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
455 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
457 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
460 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
462 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
463 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
466 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
467 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
468 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
469 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
470 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
471 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
472 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
476 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
477 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
478 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
479 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
480 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
481 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
482 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
483 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
484 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
487 GRAS (minor cleanups)
488 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
491 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
492 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
494 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
495 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
496 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
497 meaning in networking community.
500 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
501 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
502 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
503 * New module: bandwidth
504 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
506 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
508 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
510 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
514 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
517 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
520 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
521 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
523 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
524 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
525 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
529 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
530 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
531 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
532 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
533 you need on the simulator.
537 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
538 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
539 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
540 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
541 needed by MSG examples complications
542 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
545 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
546 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
547 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
551 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
552 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
553 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
554 (and therefore delayed).
555 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
556 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
557 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
558 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
559 - move some private declaration to the right place
560 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
561 - document the module
562 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
563 * Documentation improvements:
564 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
565 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
567 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
569 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
571 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
574 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
575 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
579 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
580 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
582 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
583 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
584 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
585 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
586 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
587 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
588 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
589 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
590 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
591 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
594 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
595 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
597 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
600 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
602 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
604 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
608 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
609 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
610 remote compilation helpers.
612 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
616 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
618 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
620 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
621 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
622 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
623 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
625 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
627 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
629 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
633 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
635 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
636 through the function MSG_paje_output.
637 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
638 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
639 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
640 to write it in the changelog).
641 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
646 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
647 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
648 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
650 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
651 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
652 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
653 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
655 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
656 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
657 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
658 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
660 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
661 lookup time (for now).
662 Use it in msg and trp.
663 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
664 headers between the gras components.
665 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
666 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
667 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
669 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
671 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
673 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
675 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
677 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
678 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
679 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
680 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
681 summary of the main changes.
683 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
684 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
685 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
686 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
687 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
688 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
689 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
690 in the documentation.
692 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
693 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
694 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
695 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
696 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
697 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
699 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
700 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
701 with the previous version are :
702 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
703 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
704 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
705 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
706 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
707 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
708 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
709 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
710 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
712 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
713 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
714 dictionaries that are much faster).
716 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
718 *****************************************************************************
719 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
720 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
721 *****************************************************************************
724 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
725 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
726 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
729 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
732 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
733 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
734 performance on which you can execute some actions.
736 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
737 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
738 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
739 to 'make check' over there yet.
741 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
742 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
743 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
744 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
745 trees. One day maybe...
746 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
747 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
748 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
749 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
752 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
753 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
755 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
756 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
757 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
758 run effectively faster than before now. :)
760 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
761 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
763 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
764 - Introduction of the remote errors.
765 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
766 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
767 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
768 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
770 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
771 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
772 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
773 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
774 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
775 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
776 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
777 - e_toto_t is an enum
778 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
780 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
781 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
782 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
783 s_toto_t) is private.
785 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
786 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
787 it changed for dynars.
789 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
790 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
792 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
793 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
795 gras_dynar_get is dead.
797 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
798 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
799 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
801 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
802 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
804 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
805 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
807 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
808 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
809 far more lookup than setting.
811 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
813 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
814 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
816 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
817 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
818 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
820 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
821 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
823 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
824 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
826 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
827 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
828 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
830 - Header reorganization.
831 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
833 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
834 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
836 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
837 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
838 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
839 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
840 This simplify the API a lot.
842 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
843 - Re-enable raw sockets.
844 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
845 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
848 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
850 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
851 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
854 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
855 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
858 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
859 - Finish the port to AIX.
860 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
861 function. No idea why)
863 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
864 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
866 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
867 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
868 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
870 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
872 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
873 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
874 - Allow to document the logging categories.
875 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
877 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
878 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
879 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
880 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
881 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
882 hopefully usefull message.
883 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
885 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
886 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
887 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
889 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
890 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
891 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
892 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
894 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
895 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
896 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
897 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
898 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
899 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
900 - search not dichotomial yet
901 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
902 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
903 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
904 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
905 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
906 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
907 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
908 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
909 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
910 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
911 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
913 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
914 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
915 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
918 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
921 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
922 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
923 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
924 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
925 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
926 real life and on sg in simulation).
927 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
928 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
929 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
930 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
931 that's damn hard in C (at least).
932 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
933 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
934 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
935 See comment in transport_private.h:71
936 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
937 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
940 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
941 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
942 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
943 - shorted the function names:
944 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
945 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
946 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
947 pop their size of the stack.
948 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
949 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
950 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
951 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
953 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
954 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
955 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
956 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
958 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
959 - understand it again
960 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
961 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
962 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
963 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
965 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
966 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
968 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
969 - Some documentation cleanups
970 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
971 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
972 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
973 gras -> . symbolic link
974 - make distcheck is now successful
976 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
978 - Build shared library also
979 - Install html doc to the right location
980 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
981 - build tests only on make check
983 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
985 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
986 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
987 corresponding dataset.
989 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
991 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
992 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
993 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
994 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
996 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
998 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
999 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1000 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1001 Alignment is a serious matter)
1002 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1003 constraints of each types)
1004 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1006 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1007 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1008 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1009 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1010 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1011 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1012 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1014 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1015 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1017 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1018 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1019 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1021 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1022 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1023 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1024 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1025 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1027 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1028 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1029 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1030 generated as first byte.
1031 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1032 architecture descriptions.
1033 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1034 on those architectures.
1035 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1037 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1038 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1040 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1041 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1042 settings will be separated
1043 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1045 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1047 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1048 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1049 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1050 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1052 [gras_stub_generator]
1053 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1055 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1056 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1057 them all up in one shot)
1059 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1060 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1061 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1063 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1064 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1065 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1067 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1068 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1069 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1070 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1071 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1072 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1074 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1076 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1078 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1079 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1082 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1083 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1084 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1086 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1088 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1090 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1092 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1093 - kill a few lines of dead code
1094 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1095 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1096 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1098 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1099 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1101 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1102 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1103 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1105 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1107 - Porting to new standards.
1109 - interface cleanup.
1110 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1111 pointers behind "ID".
1112 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1113 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1114 interleaved, but anyway.
1116 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1118 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1120 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1121 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1122 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1124 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1126 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1128 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1129 - send/receive function.
1130 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1131 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1132 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1133 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1134 - base types: int, float
1135 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1136 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1137 - chained list, graph with cycle
1138 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1139 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1143 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1145 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1147 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1148 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1150 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1152 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1153 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
1154 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
1156 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
1157 (the latter function is removed)
1158 [Conditional execution]
1159 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
1160 [Code reorganisation]
1161 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
1162 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
1163 its creation for now.