1 SimGrid (3.3.5-svn) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
5 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
6 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
8 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
11 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
13 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
16 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
17 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
18 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
19 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
20 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
21 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
22 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
23 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
24 actions on SURF kernel.
25 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
26 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
27 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
28 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
29 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
30 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
31 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
32 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
33 availability trace files.
34 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
35 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
36 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
37 faster than the old CPU models.
38 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
39 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
40 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
41 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
44 ******************************************
45 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
46 ******************************************
47 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
48 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
49 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
50 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
51 of simulations in some cases.
52 * The new network model will change simulations!
53 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
54 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
55 Sorry for the inconvenience.
58 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
59 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
60 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
61 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
63 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
64 amd64 to confirm that gain.
67 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
68 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
71 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
72 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
73 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
74 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
75 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
76 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
77 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
80 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
81 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
82 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
83 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
84 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
85 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
86 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
87 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
88 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
89 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
90 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
91 about the task in dotty format
92 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
93 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
95 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
96 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
97 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
98 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
99 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
100 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
101 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
104 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
107 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
108 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
109 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
110 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
111 thread (used in SG only for now)
112 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
115 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
116 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
117 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
118 the comm should be done.
119 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
120 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
121 use the private link instead)
122 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
123 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
124 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
125 to make it less stupid
126 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
127 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
128 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
129 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
130 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
131 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
132 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
133 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
134 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
135 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
136 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
137 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
138 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
140 Portability report of this version:
141 * Main portability targets:
142 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
144 - mac leopard on i386
145 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
146 but nothing critical.
147 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
149 Timing report of this version:
150 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
151 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
152 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
154 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
156 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
158 The "Need for Speed" release.
160 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
161 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
163 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
164 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
165 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
167 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
168 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
170 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
171 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
172 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
173 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
174 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
175 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
177 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
178 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
179 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
180 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
181 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
183 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
184 alone. We have to choose between:
185 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
186 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
187 - live with low performance
188 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
190 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
192 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
194 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
196 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
197 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
200 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
201 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
202 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
203 => kill now useless network_card concept
204 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
205 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
206 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
207 - Add three new models:
208 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
209 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
210 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
211 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
212 described in his ICCS09 paper.
214 * Simplify model declaration
215 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
216 - Factorize stuff between models:
219 surf_model_resource_set(model)
220 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
221 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
222 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
223 - Rename model methods:
224 action_free ~> action_unref
225 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
226 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
227 - Change model methods into functions :
228 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
230 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
231 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
232 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
233 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
234 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
236 * Improve the action object model
237 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
238 initialization in generic_action part.
240 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
241 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
244 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
245 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
246 => a lot of code was factorized
247 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
248 - simpler API for the context factory
249 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
250 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
251 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
252 and the code is a lot more readable.
255 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
256 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
257 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
260 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
261 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
262 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
263 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
265 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
266 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
269 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
270 Shout out if you used it.
273 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
277 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
278 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
279 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
280 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
281 * Remove the context module
283 Portability report of this version:
284 * Main portability targets:
285 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
286 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
287 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
288 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
289 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
290 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
291 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
293 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
294 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
295 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
296 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
299 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
300 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
301 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
303 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
304 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
306 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
309 Timing report of this version:
310 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
311 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
312 investigating this for next release.
314 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
316 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
319 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
320 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
323 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
324 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
325 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
326 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
327 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
328 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
329 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
330 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
331 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
332 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
333 clean on that point too ;)
334 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
335 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
336 This helps debugging.
337 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
341 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
342 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
343 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
344 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
345 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
346 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
347 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
348 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
349 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
350 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
352 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
353 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
354 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
355 * Bug fixing in failure management:
356 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
357 - failure during communications were not working
360 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
361 process in the log messages.
362 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
363 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
366 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
369 * Massive internal cleanups:
370 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
371 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
373 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
374 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
375 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
376 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
378 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
379 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
380 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
381 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
382 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
385 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
386 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
387 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
390 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
391 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
392 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
393 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
397 Portability report of this version:
398 * Main portability targets:
399 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
400 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
401 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
402 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
403 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
404 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
405 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
408 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
409 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
410 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
411 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
412 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
413 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
416 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
417 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
418 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
420 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
423 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
425 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
429 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
432 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
435 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
436 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
437 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
439 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
440 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
442 **************************************
443 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
444 **************************************
445 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
446 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
447 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
448 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
450 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
451 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
453 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
454 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
455 output match an expected output [Mt].
457 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
458 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
459 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
461 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
462 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
463 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
466 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
467 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
468 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
469 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
470 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
472 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
474 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
475 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
476 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
477 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
480 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
481 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
482 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
483 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
484 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
485 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
486 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
487 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
488 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
490 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
491 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
492 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
493 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
494 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
495 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
497 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
498 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
502 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
503 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
504 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
505 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
506 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
507 was thus designed [AL].
508 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
509 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
511 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
513 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
514 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
515 tested though [Pedro Velho].
518 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
520 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
521 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
522 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
524 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
526 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
530 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
533 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
534 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
535 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
536 you can write (and must)
537 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
538 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
539 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
540 - Impacted functions:
541 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
542 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
543 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
544 (just like the main() function)
546 GRAS new features and improvements:
547 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
548 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
549 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
550 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
552 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
553 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
554 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
555 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
556 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
557 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
558 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
559 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
561 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
562 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
563 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
564 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
565 bytes on quite fat pipes.
568 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
569 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
570 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
571 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
572 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
573 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
576 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
577 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
578 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
581 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
582 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
583 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
584 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
585 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
589 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
590 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
591 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
593 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
594 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
595 and allocating new ones.
597 Documentation update:
598 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
599 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
600 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
601 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
602 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
603 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
604 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
607 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
608 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
610 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
611 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
612 o Part 2: Message passing
613 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
614 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
615 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
616 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
617 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
618 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
619 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
620 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
621 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
622 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
623 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
624 - A HOWTO section containing:
625 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
626 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
627 check the examples which are still here.
629 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
631 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
635 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
636 with these versions. [Vince]
639 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
640 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
641 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
642 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
643 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
646 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
647 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
648 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
649 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
650 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
651 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
652 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
655 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
656 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
657 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
658 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
659 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
661 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
662 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
665 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
666 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
667 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
668 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
669 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
670 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
671 correctly handled). [AL]
672 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
676 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
677 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
679 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
680 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
682 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
683 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
685 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
686 within a given period.
687 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
688 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
689 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
690 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
691 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
695 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
696 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
697 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
698 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
699 * Peer management module:
700 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
703 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
704 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
705 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
706 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
707 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
708 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
709 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
710 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
711 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
712 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
713 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
714 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
715 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
716 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
717 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
718 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
719 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
721 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
722 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
723 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
725 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
727 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
730 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
731 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
732 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
733 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
734 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
735 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
736 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
737 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
738 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
739 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
740 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
741 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
743 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
744 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
745 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
746 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
747 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
748 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
749 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
752 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
753 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
756 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
757 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
760 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
761 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
762 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
763 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
765 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
766 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
768 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
769 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
770 to be given thru annotations.
771 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
772 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
774 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
776 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
777 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
780 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
781 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
784 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
785 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
786 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
787 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
789 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
790 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
791 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
792 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
794 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
795 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
796 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
797 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
798 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
799 everything is arrived
800 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
802 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
804 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
805 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
806 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
807 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
808 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
809 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
812 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
813 doing as few data copy as possible.
815 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
816 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
817 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
818 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
820 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
822 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
824 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
827 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
828 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
829 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
831 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
833 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
838 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
839 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
840 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
841 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
842 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
845 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
846 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
847 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
848 network model) if none was precised.
851 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
853 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
854 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
855 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
856 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
857 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
858 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
859 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
861 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
862 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
864 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
865 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
867 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
868 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
869 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
870 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
871 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
872 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
874 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
875 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
877 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
879 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
883 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
884 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
887 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
888 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
890 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
893 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
895 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
896 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
899 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
900 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
901 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
902 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
903 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
904 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
905 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
909 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
910 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
911 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
912 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
913 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
914 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
915 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
916 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
917 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
920 GRAS (minor cleanups)
921 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
924 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
925 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
927 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
928 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
929 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
930 meaning in networking community.
933 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
934 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
935 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
936 * New module: bandwidth
937 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
939 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
941 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
943 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
947 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
950 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
953 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
954 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
956 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
957 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
958 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
962 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
963 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
964 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
965 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
966 you need on the simulator.
970 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
971 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
972 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
973 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
974 needed by MSG examples complications
975 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
978 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
979 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
980 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
984 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
985 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
986 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
987 (and therefore delayed).
988 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
989 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
990 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
991 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
992 - move some private declaration to the right place
993 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
994 - document the module
995 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
996 * Documentation improvements:
997 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
998 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1000 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1002 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1004 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1007 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1008 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1012 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1013 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1015 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1016 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1017 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1018 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1019 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1020 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1021 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1022 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1023 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1024 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1027 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1028 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1030 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1033 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1035 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1037 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1041 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1042 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1043 remote compilation helpers.
1045 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1049 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1051 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1053 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1054 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1055 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1056 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1058 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1060 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1062 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1066 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1068 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1069 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1070 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1071 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1072 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1073 to write it in the changelog).
1074 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1079 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1080 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1081 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1083 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1084 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1085 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1086 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1088 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1089 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1090 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1091 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1093 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1094 lookup time (for now).
1095 Use it in msg and trp.
1096 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1097 headers between the gras components.
1098 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1099 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1100 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1102 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1104 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1106 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1108 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1110 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1111 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1112 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1113 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1114 summary of the main changes.
1116 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1117 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1118 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1119 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1120 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1121 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1122 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1123 in the documentation.
1125 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1126 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1127 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1128 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1129 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1130 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1132 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1133 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1134 with the previous version are :
1135 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1136 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1137 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1138 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1139 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1140 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1141 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1142 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1143 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1145 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1146 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1147 dictionaries that are much faster).
1149 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1151 *****************************************************************************
1152 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1153 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1154 *****************************************************************************
1157 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1158 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1159 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1162 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1165 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1166 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1167 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1169 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1170 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1171 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1172 to 'make check' over there yet.
1174 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1175 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1176 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1177 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1178 trees. One day maybe...
1179 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1180 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1181 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1182 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1185 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1186 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1188 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1189 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1190 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1191 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1193 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1194 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1196 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1197 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1198 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1199 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1200 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1201 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1203 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1204 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1205 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1206 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1207 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1208 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1209 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1210 - e_toto_t is an enum
1211 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1213 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1214 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1215 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1216 s_toto_t) is private.
1218 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1219 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1220 it changed for dynars.
1222 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1223 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1225 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1226 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1228 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1230 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1231 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1232 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1234 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1235 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1237 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1238 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1240 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1241 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1242 far more lookup than setting.
1244 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1246 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1247 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1249 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1250 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1251 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1253 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1254 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1256 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1257 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1259 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1260 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1261 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1263 - Header reorganization.
1264 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1266 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1267 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1269 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1270 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1271 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1272 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1273 This simplify the API a lot.
1275 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1276 - Re-enable raw sockets.
1277 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
1278 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
1281 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
1283 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
1284 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
1287 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
1288 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
1291 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
1292 - Finish the port to AIX.
1293 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
1294 function. No idea why)
1296 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
1297 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
1299 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
1300 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
1301 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
1303 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
1305 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
1306 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
1307 - Allow to document the logging categories.
1308 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
1310 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
1311 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
1312 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
1313 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
1314 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
1315 hopefully usefull message.
1316 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
1318 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
1319 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
1320 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
1322 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
1323 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
1324 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
1325 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
1327 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
1328 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1329 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
1330 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
1331 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
1332 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
1333 - search not dichotomial yet
1334 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
1335 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
1336 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
1337 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
1338 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
1339 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
1340 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
1341 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
1342 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
1343 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
1344 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
1346 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
1347 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
1348 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
1351 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
1352 the ID of this type.
1354 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
1355 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
1356 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
1357 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
1358 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
1359 real life and on sg in simulation).
1360 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
1361 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
1362 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
1363 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
1364 that's damn hard in C (at least).
1365 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
1366 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
1367 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
1368 See comment in transport_private.h:71
1369 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
1370 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1373 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1374 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1375 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1376 - shorted the function names:
1377 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1378 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1379 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1380 pop their size of the stack.
1381 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1382 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1383 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1384 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1386 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1387 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1388 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1389 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1391 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1392 - understand it again
1393 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1394 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1395 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1396 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1398 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1399 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1401 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1402 - Some documentation cleanups
1403 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1404 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1405 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1406 gras -> . symbolic link
1407 - make distcheck is now successful
1409 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1411 - Build shared library also
1412 - Install html doc to the right location
1413 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1414 - build tests only on make check
1416 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1418 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1419 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1420 corresponding dataset.
1422 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1424 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
1425 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
1426 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
1427 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
1429 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
1430 [autoconf mechanism]
1431 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
1432 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1433 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1434 Alignment is a serious matter)
1435 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1436 constraints of each types)
1437 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1439 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1440 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1441 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1442 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1443 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1444 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1445 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1447 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1448 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1450 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1451 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1452 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1454 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1455 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1456 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1457 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1458 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1460 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1461 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1462 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1463 generated as first byte.
1464 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1465 architecture descriptions.
1466 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1467 on those architectures.
1468 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1470 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1471 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1473 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1474 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1475 settings will be separated
1476 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1478 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1480 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1481 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1482 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1483 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1485 [gras_stub_generator]
1486 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1488 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1489 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1490 them all up in one shot)
1492 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1493 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1494 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1496 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1497 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1498 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1500 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1501 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1502 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1503 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1504 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1505 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1507 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1509 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1511 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1512 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1515 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1516 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1517 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1519 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1521 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1523 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1525 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1526 - kill a few lines of dead code
1527 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1528 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1529 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1531 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1532 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1534 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1535 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1536 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1538 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1540 - Porting to new standards.
1542 - interface cleanup.
1543 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1544 pointers behind "ID".
1545 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1546 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1547 interleaved, but anyway.
1549 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1551 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1553 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1554 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1555 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1557 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1559 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1561 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1562 - send/receive function.
1563 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1564 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1565 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1566 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1567 - base types: int, float
1568 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1569 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1570 - chained list, graph with cycle
1571 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1572 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1576 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1578 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1580 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1581 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1583 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1585 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1586 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
1587 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
1589 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
1590 (the latter function is removed)
1591 [Conditional execution]
1592 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
1593 [Code reorganisation]
1594 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
1595 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
1596 its creation for now.
1598 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
1599 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since