1 SimGrid (3.7) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
5 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
8 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
9 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
12 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
14 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
16 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
19 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
20 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contextes instead of the sysv
21 (portable) ones when possible.
22 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
23 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
24 * Update the XML platforms:
25 - G5K: include the lastest machine in Nancy
26 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
27 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
29 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
30 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
31 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
33 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
34 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
37 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
38 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
39 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
40 its compilation burden
41 * The raw execution contextes should work on Apple now
42 * Port to Windows 64 bits
43 - Sysv contextes now have an implementation for this arch
44 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
45 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
46 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
47 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
48 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
51 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
54 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
56 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
59 * Fixed contextes detection so that raw ones are used when possible
60 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontextes with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
61 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
62 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
63 controlable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
66 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
68 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
70 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
72 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
75 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
76 Rationale: reduce our maintainance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
77 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
79 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
80 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
82 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
83 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
84 but it may soon become the case.
87 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
88 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
89 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
90 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modifiy global and
91 local static variables.
92 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
96 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
97 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
98 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
100 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
101 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
102 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
103 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
105 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
106 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
107 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
108 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
109 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
110 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
111 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
112 index of a finished communication (if any).
113 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
116 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
117 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
118 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
119 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
121 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
122 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
123 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
124 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
125 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
126 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
127 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
128 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
131 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
133 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
134 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
135 do the work in an efficient manner.
136 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
137 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
138 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
139 contextes at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
140 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
141 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
142 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
143 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
144 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
145 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
147 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
151 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
152 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
153 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
154 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
155 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
156 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
157 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
158 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
159 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
160 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
161 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
162 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
164 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
165 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
169 * New configuration options
170 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
171 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
172 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
173 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
174 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
175 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
176 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
178 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
179 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
180 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
181 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
182 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
183 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
184 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
185 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
186 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
188 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
189 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
190 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
191 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
192 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
193 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is desactivated
194 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
197 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
198 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
199 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
200 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
201 could rely on that macro to adapt.
202 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
203 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
204 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
205 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
206 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
208 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
210 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
213 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
214 Check SIN#1 for more details.
217 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
218 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
219 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
220 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
221 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
222 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
223 * See also src/smpi/README
228 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
229 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
230 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
231 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
232 same for MSG and SimDag.
233 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
235 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
236 where color must be in the following format
237 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
238 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
239 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
241 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
242 - The following command-line options are supported:
243 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
244 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
245 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
246 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
247 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
248 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
249 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
250 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
251 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
252 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
254 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
255 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
256 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
257 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
258 - Collective operations are traced with states
259 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
260 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
261 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
262 is compiled with tracing enabled)
263 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
264 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
265 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
266 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
267 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
268 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
269 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
270 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
273 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
274 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
275 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
276 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
277 * New function: MSG_set_function
278 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
279 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
281 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
282 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
283 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
286 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
287 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
288 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
289 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
290 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
291 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
292 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
293 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
294 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
295 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
296 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
297 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealed with by
299 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
300 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
301 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
302 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
303 you want to use this routing scheme.
304 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
305 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
306 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
307 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
308 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
309 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
310 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
311 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
312 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
313 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
315 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
316 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
317 results when exchanging small messages.
318 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
319 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
320 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
323 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
324 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
325 dependencies are satisfied) state.
326 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
327 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
328 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
329 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
330 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
331 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
332 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
333 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
334 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
335 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
336 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
337 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
338 installation of the graphviz library.
339 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
340 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
341 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
342 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
343 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
344 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
345 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
346 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
347 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
348 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
349 using a Min-Min strategy.
350 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
351 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
353 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
354 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
357 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
358 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
359 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
360 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
361 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
362 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
363 Please use (proper) visualization instead
366 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
367 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
368 independent segments of malloc)
369 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
370 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
371 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
372 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
373 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
374 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
375 uninitialized areas during expand.
376 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
377 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
378 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
379 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
380 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
383 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
384 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
385 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
386 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
387 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
388 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
389 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
390 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
392 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
393 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
394 * Port to windows ( TM :)
395 * Fix the 'make install' target.
396 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
397 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
398 'make package' compiles a binary archive
399 * Compile java files only on need
400 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
401 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
402 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
405 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
406 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
407 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
409 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
411 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
413 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
414 This is a bug fixes release only.
418 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
421 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
422 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
423 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
426 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
427 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
430 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
431 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
432 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
434 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
436 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
438 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
440 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
441 ~> bindings were greatly improved
442 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
444 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
445 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
448 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
450 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
451 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
452 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
453 Use send/receive instead.
454 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
455 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
456 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
457 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
458 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
459 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
460 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
461 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
462 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
463 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
464 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
465 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
466 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
467 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
469 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
470 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
471 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
472 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
473 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
474 such thing for that specific task.
475 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
476 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
477 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
478 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
479 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
481 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
482 the deprecated put/get interface.
483 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
484 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
486 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
487 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
488 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
489 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
491 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
492 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
493 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
494 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
495 - Fix implementation of collective operations
496 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
498 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
499 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
500 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
501 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
502 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
504 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
506 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
507 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
508 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
509 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
510 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
511 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
512 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
514 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
515 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
516 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
517 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
518 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
520 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
521 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
522 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
523 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
524 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
525 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
527 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
528 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
529 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
530 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
531 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
532 * Refactoring context stuff:
533 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
534 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
535 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
537 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
539 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
540 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
541 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
542 o network_model -> network/model
543 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
544 * New configuration variables:
545 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
546 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
547 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
548 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
549 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
550 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
552 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
553 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
554 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
555 When so, you need to use the following functions
556 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
557 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
558 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
559 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
560 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
562 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
563 Tracing for Visualization:
564 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
565 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
566 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
567 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
568 (among other functions).
569 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
570 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
571 traces with the Triva tool is written.
572 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
575 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
576 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
577 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
578 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
579 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
580 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
581 * Added code coverage tests.
582 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
584 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
586 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
588 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
591 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
592 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
593 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
594 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
595 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
596 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
597 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
598 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
599 actions on SURF kernel.
600 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
601 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
602 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
603 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
604 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
605 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
606 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
607 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
608 availability trace files.
609 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
610 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
611 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
612 faster than the old CPU models.
613 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
614 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
615 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
616 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
619 ******************************************
620 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
621 ******************************************
622 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
623 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
624 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
625 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
626 of simulations in some cases.
627 * The new network model will change simulations!
628 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
629 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
630 Sorry for the inconvenience.
633 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
634 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
635 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
636 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
638 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
639 amd64 to confirm that gain.
642 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
643 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
646 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
647 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
648 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
649 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
650 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
651 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
652 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
655 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
656 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
657 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
658 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
659 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
660 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
661 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
662 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
663 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
664 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
665 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
666 about the task in dotty format
667 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
668 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
670 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
671 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
672 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
673 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
674 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
675 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
676 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
679 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
682 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
683 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
684 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
685 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
686 thread (used in SG only for now)
687 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
690 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
691 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
692 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
693 the comm should be done.
694 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
695 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
696 use the private link instead)
697 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
698 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
699 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
700 to make it less stupid
701 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
702 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
703 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
704 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
705 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
706 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
707 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
708 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
709 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
710 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
711 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
712 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
713 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
715 Portability report of this version:
716 * Main portability targets:
717 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
719 - mac leopard on i386
720 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
721 but nothing critical.
722 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
724 Timing report of this version:
725 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
726 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
727 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
729 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
731 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
733 The "Need for Speed" release.
735 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
736 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
738 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
739 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
740 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
742 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
743 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
745 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
746 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
747 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
748 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
749 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
750 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
752 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
753 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
754 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
755 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
756 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
758 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
759 alone. We have to choose between:
760 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
761 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
762 - live with low performance
763 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
765 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
767 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
769 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
771 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
772 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
775 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
776 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
777 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
778 => kill now useless network_card concept
779 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
780 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
781 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
782 - Add three new models:
783 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
784 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
785 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
786 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
787 described in his ICCS09 paper.
789 * Simplify model declaration
790 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
791 - Factorize stuff between models:
794 surf_model_resource_set(model)
795 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
796 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
797 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
798 - Rename model methods:
799 action_free ~> action_unref
800 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
801 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
802 - Change model methods into functions :
803 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
805 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
806 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
807 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
808 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
809 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
811 * Improve the action object model
812 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
813 initialization in generic_action part.
815 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
816 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
819 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
820 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
821 => a lot of code was factorized
822 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
823 - simpler API for the context factory
824 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
825 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
826 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
827 and the code is a lot more readable.
830 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
831 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
832 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
835 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
836 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
837 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
838 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
840 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
841 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
844 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
845 Shout out if you used it.
848 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
852 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
853 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
854 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
855 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
856 * Remove the context module
858 Portability report of this version:
859 * Main portability targets:
860 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
861 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
862 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
863 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
864 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
865 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
866 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
868 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
869 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
870 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
871 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
874 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
875 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
876 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
878 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
879 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
881 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
884 Timing report of this version:
885 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
886 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
887 investigating this for next release.
889 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
891 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
894 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
895 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
898 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
899 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
900 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
901 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
902 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
903 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
904 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
905 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
906 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
907 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
908 clean on that point too ;)
909 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
910 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
911 This helps debugging.
912 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
916 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
917 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
918 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
919 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
920 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
921 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
922 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
923 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
924 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
925 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
927 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
928 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
929 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
930 * Bug fixing in failure management:
931 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
932 - failure during communications were not working
935 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
936 process in the log messages.
937 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
938 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
941 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
944 * Massive internal cleanups:
945 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
946 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
948 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
949 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
950 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
951 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
953 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
954 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
955 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
956 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
957 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
960 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
961 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
962 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
965 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
966 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
967 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
968 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
972 Portability report of this version:
973 * Main portability targets:
974 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
975 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
976 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
977 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
978 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
979 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
980 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
983 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
984 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
985 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
986 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
987 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
988 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
991 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
992 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
993 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
995 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
998 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1000 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1004 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1005 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1007 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1010 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1011 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1012 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1014 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1015 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1017 **************************************
1018 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1019 **************************************
1020 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1021 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1022 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1023 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1025 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1026 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1028 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1029 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1030 output match an expected output [Mt].
1032 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1033 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1034 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1036 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1037 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1038 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1041 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
1042 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1043 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1044 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1045 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1047 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1048 linux ones too) [Mt]
1049 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1050 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1051 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1052 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1055 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1056 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1057 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1058 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1059 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1060 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1061 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1062 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1063 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1065 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1066 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1067 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1068 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1069 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1070 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1072 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1073 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1074 root directly) [Mt].
1077 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1078 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1079 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1080 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1081 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1082 was thus designed [AL].
1083 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1084 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1086 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1088 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1089 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1090 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1093 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1095 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1096 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1097 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1099 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1101 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1105 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1106 least MSG is usable.
1108 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1109 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1110 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1111 you can write (and must)
1112 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1113 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1114 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1115 - Impacted functions:
1116 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1117 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1118 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1119 (just like the main() function)
1121 GRAS new features and improvements:
1122 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1123 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1124 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1125 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1127 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1128 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1129 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1130 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1131 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1132 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1133 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1134 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1135 No big deal usually.
1136 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1137 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1138 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1139 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1140 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1143 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1144 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1145 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1146 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1147 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1148 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1151 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1152 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1153 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1156 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1157 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1158 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1159 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1160 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1164 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1165 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1166 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1168 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1169 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1170 and allocating new ones.
1172 Documentation update:
1173 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1174 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1175 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1176 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1177 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1178 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1179 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1180 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1182 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1183 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1185 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1186 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1187 o Part 2: Message passing
1188 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1189 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1190 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1191 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1192 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1193 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1194 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1195 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1196 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1197 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1198 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1199 - A HOWTO section containing:
1200 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1201 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1202 check the examples which are still here.
1204 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1206 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1210 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1211 with these versions. [Vince]
1214 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1215 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1216 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1217 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1218 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1221 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1222 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1223 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1224 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1225 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1226 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1227 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1230 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1231 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1232 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1233 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1234 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1236 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1237 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1240 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1241 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1242 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1243 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1244 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1245 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1246 correctly handled). [AL]
1247 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1251 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1252 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1254 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1255 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1257 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1258 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1260 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1261 within a given period.
1262 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1263 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1264 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1265 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1266 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1270 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1271 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1272 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1273 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1274 * Peer management module:
1275 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1278 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1279 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1280 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1281 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1282 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1283 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1284 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1285 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1286 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1287 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1288 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1289 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1290 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1291 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1292 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1293 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1294 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1296 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1297 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1298 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1300 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1302 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1305 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1306 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1307 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1308 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1309 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1310 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1311 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1312 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1313 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1314 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1315 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1316 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1318 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1319 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1320 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1321 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1322 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1323 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1324 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1327 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1328 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1331 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1332 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1335 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1336 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1337 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1338 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1340 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1341 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1343 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1344 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1345 to be given thru annotations.
1346 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1347 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1349 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1351 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1352 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1355 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1356 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1359 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1360 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1361 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1362 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1364 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1365 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1366 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1367 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1369 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1370 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1371 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1372 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1373 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1374 everything is arrived
1375 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1377 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1379 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1380 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1381 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1382 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1383 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1384 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1387 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1388 doing as few data copy as possible.
1390 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1391 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1392 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1393 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1395 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1397 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1399 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1402 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1403 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1404 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1406 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1408 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1414 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1415 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1416 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1417 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1420 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1421 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1422 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1423 network model) if none was precised.
1426 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1428 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1429 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1430 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1431 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1432 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1433 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1434 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1436 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1437 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1439 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1440 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1442 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1443 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1444 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1445 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1446 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1447 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1449 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1450 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1452 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1454 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1458 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1459 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1462 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1463 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1465 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1468 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1470 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1471 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1474 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1475 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1476 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1477 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1478 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1479 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1480 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1481 in place before [MQ]
1484 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1485 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1486 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1487 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1488 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1489 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1490 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1491 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1492 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1495 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1496 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1499 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1500 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1502 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1503 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1504 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1505 meaning in networking community.
1508 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1509 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1510 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1511 * New module: bandwidth
1512 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1514 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1516 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1518 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1522 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1525 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1528 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1529 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1531 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1532 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1533 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1537 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1538 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1539 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1540 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1541 you need on the simulator.
1545 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1546 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1547 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1548 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1549 needed by MSG examples complications
1550 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1553 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1554 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1555 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1559 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1560 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1561 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1562 (and therefore delayed).
1563 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1564 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1565 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1566 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1567 - move some private declaration to the right place
1568 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1569 - document the module
1570 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1571 * Documentation improvements:
1572 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1573 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1575 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1577 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1579 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1582 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1583 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1587 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1588 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1590 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1591 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1592 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1593 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1594 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1595 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1596 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1597 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1598 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1599 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1602 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1603 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1605 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1608 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1610 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1612 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1616 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1617 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1618 remote compilation helpers.
1620 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1624 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1626 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1628 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1629 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1630 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1631 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1633 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1635 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1637 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1641 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1643 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1644 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1645 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1646 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1647 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1648 to write it in the changelog).
1649 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1654 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1655 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1656 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1658 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1659 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1660 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1661 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1663 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1664 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1665 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1666 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1668 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1669 lookup time (for now).
1670 Use it in msg and trp.
1671 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1672 headers between the gras components.
1673 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1674 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1675 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1677 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1679 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1681 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1683 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1685 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1686 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1687 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1688 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1689 summary of the main changes.
1691 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1692 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1693 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1694 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1695 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1696 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1697 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1698 in the documentation.
1700 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1701 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1702 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1703 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1704 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1705 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1707 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1708 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1709 with the previous version are :
1710 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1711 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1712 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1713 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1714 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1715 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1716 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1717 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1718 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1720 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1721 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1722 dictionaries that are much faster).
1724 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1726 *****************************************************************************
1727 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1728 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1729 *****************************************************************************
1732 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1733 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1734 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1737 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1740 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1741 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1742 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1744 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1745 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1746 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1747 to 'make check' over there yet.
1749 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1750 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1751 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1752 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1753 trees. One day maybe...
1754 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1755 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1756 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1757 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1760 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1761 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1763 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1764 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1765 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1766 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1768 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1769 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1771 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1772 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1773 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1774 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1775 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1776 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1778 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1779 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1780 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1781 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1782 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1783 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1784 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1785 - e_toto_t is an enum
1786 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1788 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1789 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1790 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1791 s_toto_t) is private.
1793 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1794 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1795 it changed for dynars.
1797 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1798 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1800 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1801 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1803 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1805 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1806 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1807 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1809 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1810 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1812 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1813 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1815 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1816 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1817 far more lookup than setting.
1819 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1821 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1822 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1824 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1825 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1826 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1828 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1829 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1831 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1832 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1834 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1835 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1836 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1838 - Header reorganization.
1839 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1841 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1842 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1844 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1845 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1846 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1847 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1848 This simplify the API a lot.
1850 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1851 - Re-enable raw sockets.
1852 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
1853 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
1856 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
1858 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
1859 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
1862 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
1863 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
1866 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
1867 - Finish the port to AIX.
1868 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
1869 function. No idea why)
1871 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
1872 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
1874 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
1875 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
1876 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
1878 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
1880 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
1881 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
1882 - Allow to document the logging categories.
1883 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
1885 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
1886 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
1887 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
1888 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
1889 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
1890 hopefully usefull message.
1891 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
1893 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
1894 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
1895 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
1897 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
1898 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
1899 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
1900 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
1902 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
1903 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1904 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
1905 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
1906 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
1907 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
1908 - search not dichotomial yet
1909 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
1910 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
1911 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
1912 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
1913 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
1914 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
1915 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
1916 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
1917 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
1918 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
1919 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
1921 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
1922 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
1923 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
1926 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
1927 the ID of this type.
1929 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
1930 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
1931 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
1932 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
1933 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
1934 real life and on sg in simulation).
1935 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
1936 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
1937 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
1938 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
1939 that's damn hard in C (at least).
1940 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
1941 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
1942 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
1943 See comment in transport_private.h:71
1944 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
1945 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1948 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1949 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1950 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1951 - shorted the function names:
1952 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1953 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1954 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1955 pop their size of the stack.
1956 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1957 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1958 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1959 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1961 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1962 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1963 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1964 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1966 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1967 - understand it again
1968 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1969 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1970 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1971 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1973 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1974 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1976 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1977 - Some documentation cleanups
1978 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1979 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1980 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1981 gras -> . symbolic link
1982 - make distcheck is now successful
1984 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1986 - Build shared library also
1987 - Install html doc to the right location
1988 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1989 - build tests only on make check
1991 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1993 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1994 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1995 corresponding dataset.
1997 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1999 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2000 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2001 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2002 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2004 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2005 [autoconf mechanism]
2006 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2007 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2008 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2009 Alignment is a serious matter)
2010 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2011 constraints of each types)
2012 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2014 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2015 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2016 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2017 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2018 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2019 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2020 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2022 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2023 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2025 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2026 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2027 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2029 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2030 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2031 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2032 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2033 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2035 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2036 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2037 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2038 generated as first byte.
2039 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2040 architecture descriptions.
2041 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2042 on those architectures.
2043 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2045 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2046 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2048 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2049 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2050 settings will be separated
2051 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2053 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2055 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2056 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2057 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2058 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2060 [gras_stub_generator]
2061 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2063 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2064 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2065 them all up in one shot)
2067 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2068 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2069 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2071 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2072 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2073 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2075 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2076 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2077 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2078 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2079 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2080 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2082 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2084 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2086 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2087 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2090 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2091 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2092 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2094 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2096 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2098 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2100 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2101 - kill a few lines of dead code
2102 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2103 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2104 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2106 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2107 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2109 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2110 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2111 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2113 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2115 - Porting to new standards.
2117 - interface cleanup.
2118 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2119 pointers behind "ID".
2120 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2121 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2122 interleaved, but anyway.
2124 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2126 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2128 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2129 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2130 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
2132 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2134 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2136 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2137 - send/receive function.
2138 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2139 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2140 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2141 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2142 - base types: int, float
2143 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2144 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2145 - chained list, graph with cycle
2146 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2147 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2151 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2153 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2155 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2156 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2158 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2160 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2161 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2162 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2164 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2165 (the latter function is removed)
2166 [Conditional execution]
2167 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2168 [Code reorganisation]
2169 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2170 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2171 its creation for now.
2173 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2174 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since