1 SimGrid (3.12) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Interface improvement:
5 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
6 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
7 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
8 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
9 get_remaining_computation(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
10 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
11 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
12 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
13 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
14 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
16 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
18 * Interface improvement:
19 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
20 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
21 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
22 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
24 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
28 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
29 * Refactoring: Separate submodules
30 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
31 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
32 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embeed the user code
33 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
35 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
36 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
37 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
38 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
39 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
40 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
42 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
46 - Onesided early support for : MPI_Win_(create, free, fence, get_name, set_name, get_group), MPI_Get, MPI_Put, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Alloc_mem, MPI_Free_mem.
47 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
48 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
49 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
50 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
51 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
52 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
54 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
55 - InfiniBand network model added : Based on the works of Jerome Vienne (http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf )
56 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
57 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
58 * Collective communications
59 - SMP-aware algorithms are now dynamically handled. An internal communicator is created for each node, and an external one to handle communications between "leaders" of each node
60 - MVAPICH2 (1.9) collective algorithms selector : normal and SMP algorithms are handled, and selection logic is based on the one used on TACC's Stampede cluster (https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede/).
61 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
63 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
64 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
65 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
66 - Replay can now replay several traces at the same time (check examples/smpi/replay_multiple example), to simulate interactions between several applications on a given platform. User can specify the start time of each instance. This should also allow replay + actual applications to run.
68 - [#17799] : have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
69 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
70 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
71 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
72 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
73 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
76 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
77 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
78 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
79 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
80 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
81 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
82 - New property: watt_off to denote the disipation when the host is off
83 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
84 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
85 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
86 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
87 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
90 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
91 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
92 - Add two new log appenders : rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
94 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
95 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
96 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
97 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
98 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
99 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
100 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
101 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
104 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
105 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
106 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
107 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
109 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
111 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
116 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
119 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
120 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
121 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
122 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
123 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
124 * Add java surf examples:
125 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
126 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
127 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
128 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
129 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
134 - msg task destroy cancel test
135 - msg_host on/off test
136 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
137 * Restructure teshsuites
138 - one folder for each kind of test
139 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
141 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
144 * Add virtual machine
145 - creation of a VM on a PM
146 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
148 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
149 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
150 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
151 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
152 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
153 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
156 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
158 - Increase code coverage in test suites
162 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
163 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
164 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
165 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
166 - generates files included by SimGrid
167 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
169 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
170 host_set_data, host_get_data
172 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
173 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
176 * Translate surf models from C to C++
177 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
178 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
179 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
181 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
182 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
183 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
184 - Add callback functions for action state change
185 - Handle Energy as a plugin
186 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
187 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
188 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
189 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
190 parameters for cluster tag
191 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
192 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
193 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
194 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
198 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
200 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
201 improper number of nodes and report the error.
202 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies : MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
203 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
204 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
205 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
206 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave) :
207 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
211 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
212 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
213 Limitations : Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
214 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
215 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
218 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
221 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
222 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
223 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
224 are kept installed elsewhere.
225 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
226 - plugin to handle callbacks
227 - CPU model only for the moment
230 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
231 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
232 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
233 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
234 * Add boost dependency for surf++
235 * Add new macro for tests
236 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
237 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
241 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
242 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
243 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
244 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
246 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
248 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
250 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
253 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
254 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
255 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
256 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
257 cached in the Java world
260 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
261 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
262 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
263 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
264 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
267 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
268 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
269 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
270 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
271 in the original application.
272 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
273 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
274 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
276 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
277 - Gatherv collective is now supported
278 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
279 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
280 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
281 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
282 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
283 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
284 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
285 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
286 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
287 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
288 * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
290 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
291 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
292 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
293 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
295 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
296 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
297 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
298 (no privatization of global variables yet)
299 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
302 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
303 (in addition to MSG applications)
304 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
305 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
306 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
307 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
308 DPOR for safety properties.
311 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
312 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
313 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
316 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
317 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
318 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
319 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
320 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
321 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
322 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
323 router but this is transparent.
326 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
327 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
328 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
329 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
330 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
331 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
332 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
333 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
334 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
335 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
338 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
339 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
340 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
341 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
343 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
346 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
348 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
350 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
352 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
355 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
356 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
357 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
358 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
359 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
360 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
361 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
362 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
363 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
366 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
367 splitting it was really not helping our users.
368 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
369 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
370 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
373 * Now works on Windows too!
374 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
377 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
378 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
379 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
380 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
381 a control dependency.
382 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
383 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
387 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
388 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
389 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
390 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
394 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
395 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
396 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
397 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
398 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
399 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
400 trace is not at time 0.
403 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
404 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
408 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
409 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
411 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
412 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
415 * Fix the lua deployment:
416 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
417 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
420 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
422 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
424 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
426 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
429 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
431 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
433 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
435 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
438 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
439 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
440 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
441 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
442 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
443 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
444 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
445 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
446 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
447 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
448 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
450 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
451 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
452 points in the library helps us).
453 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
454 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
455 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
458 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
459 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
462 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
463 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
465 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
466 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
467 purpose ("on" by default).
470 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
471 survive the host they are running onto.
472 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
473 executing comes back.
474 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
475 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
478 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
479 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
481 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
482 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
483 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
484 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
485 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
486 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
487 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
489 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
490 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
491 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
492 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
494 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
495 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
496 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
497 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
499 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
500 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
501 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
502 (from their beginning)
503 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
507 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
508 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
509 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
510 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
511 hindexed and structs)
512 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
513 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
514 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
515 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
516 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
517 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
518 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
519 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
522 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
523 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
524 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
525 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
526 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
527 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
531 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
532 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
533 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
534 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
535 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
536 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
537 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
540 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
541 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
542 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
543 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
544 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
546 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
548 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
551 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
552 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
553 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
556 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
559 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
560 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
561 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
564 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
567 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
568 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
569 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
570 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
572 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
573 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
574 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
575 feature, any help would be really welcome.
577 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
579 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
581 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
584 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
585 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
586 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
587 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
588 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
589 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
590 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
591 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
592 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
593 Accuracy should be improved this way.
594 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
595 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
596 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
597 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
598 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
599 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
600 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
601 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
602 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
603 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
604 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
605 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
606 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
607 network/coordinates, and document it
608 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
609 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
610 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
611 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
612 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
615 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
616 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
617 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
618 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
619 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
620 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
621 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
622 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
623 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
624 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
625 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
626 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
629 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
630 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
631 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
632 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
633 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
634 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
635 execution mode (raw contexts only)
636 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
637 synchronization structures.
638 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
639 in very specific conditions.
642 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
643 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
644 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
645 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
646 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
647 This is released anyway because YMMV.
650 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
651 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
655 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
658 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
659 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
660 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
661 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
662 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
663 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
664 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
665 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
666 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
667 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
668 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
669 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
670 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
671 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
672 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
673 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
676 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
677 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
678 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
679 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
680 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
683 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
684 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
685 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
689 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
690 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
692 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
693 don't exists anymore.
694 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
696 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
697 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
698 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
699 deprecated in the next release.
700 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
701 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
703 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
704 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
705 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
706 element is not found.
708 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
709 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
711 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
712 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
713 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
714 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
715 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
716 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
717 necessary at this point to get MC working.
719 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
720 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
722 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
724 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
726 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
729 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
730 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
731 (portable) ones when possible.
732 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
733 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
734 * Update the XML platforms:
735 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
736 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
737 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
739 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
740 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
741 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
743 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
744 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
747 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
748 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
749 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
750 its compilation burden
751 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
752 * Port to Windows 64 bits
753 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
754 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
755 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
756 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
757 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
758 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
761 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
763 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
765 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
768 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
769 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
770 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
771 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
772 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
775 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
777 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
779 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
781 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
784 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
785 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
786 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
788 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
789 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
791 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
792 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
793 but it may soon become the case.
796 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
797 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
798 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
799 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
800 local static variables.
801 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
805 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
806 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
807 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
809 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
810 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
811 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
812 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
814 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
815 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
816 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
817 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
818 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
819 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
820 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
821 index of a finished communication (if any).
822 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
825 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
826 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
827 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
828 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
830 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
831 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
832 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
833 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
834 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
835 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
836 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
837 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
840 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
842 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
843 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
844 do the work in an efficient manner.
845 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
846 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
847 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
848 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
849 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
850 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
851 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
852 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
853 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
854 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
856 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
860 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
861 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
862 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
863 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
864 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
865 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
866 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
867 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
868 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
869 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
870 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
871 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
873 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
874 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
878 * New configuration options
879 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
880 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
881 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
882 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
883 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
884 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
885 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
887 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
888 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
889 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
890 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
891 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
892 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
893 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
894 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
895 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
897 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
898 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
899 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
900 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
901 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
902 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
903 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
906 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
907 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
908 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
909 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
910 could rely on that macro to adapt.
911 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
912 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
913 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
914 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
915 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
917 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
919 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
922 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
923 Check SIN#1 for more details.
926 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
927 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
928 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
929 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
930 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
931 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
932 * See also src/smpi/README
937 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
938 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
939 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
940 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
941 same for MSG and SimDag.
942 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
944 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
945 where color must be in the following format
946 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
947 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
948 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
950 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
951 - The following command-line options are supported:
952 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
953 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
954 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
955 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
956 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
957 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
958 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
959 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
960 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
961 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
963 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
964 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
965 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
966 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
967 - Collective operations are traced with states
968 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
969 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
970 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
971 is compiled with tracing enabled)
972 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
973 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
974 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
975 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
976 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
977 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
978 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
979 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
982 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
983 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
984 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
985 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
986 * New function: MSG_set_function
987 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
988 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
990 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
991 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
992 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
995 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
996 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
997 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
998 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
999 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
1000 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
1001 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
1002 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
1003 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
1004 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
1005 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
1006 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
1008 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
1009 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
1010 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
1011 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
1012 you want to use this routing scheme.
1013 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
1014 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
1015 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
1016 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
1017 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
1018 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
1019 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
1020 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
1021 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
1022 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
1024 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
1025 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
1026 results when exchanging small messages.
1027 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
1028 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
1029 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
1032 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
1033 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
1034 dependencies are satisfied) state.
1035 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
1036 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
1037 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
1038 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
1039 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
1040 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
1041 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
1042 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
1043 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
1044 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
1045 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
1046 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
1047 installation of the graphviz library.
1048 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
1049 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
1050 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
1051 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
1052 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
1053 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
1054 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
1055 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
1056 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
1057 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
1058 using a Min-Min strategy.
1059 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
1060 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
1062 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
1063 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
1066 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
1067 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
1068 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
1069 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
1070 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
1071 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
1072 Please use (proper) visualization instead
1075 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
1076 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
1077 independent segments of malloc)
1078 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
1079 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
1080 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
1081 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
1082 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
1083 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
1084 uninitialized areas during expand.
1085 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
1086 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
1087 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
1088 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
1089 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
1092 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
1093 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
1094 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
1095 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
1096 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
1097 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
1098 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
1099 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
1101 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
1102 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
1103 * Port to windows ( TM :)
1104 * Fix the 'make install' target.
1105 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
1106 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
1107 'make package' compiles a binary archive
1108 * Compile java files only on need
1109 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
1110 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
1111 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
1114 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
1115 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
1116 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
1118 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1120 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
1122 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
1123 This is a bug fixes release only.
1127 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
1130 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
1131 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
1132 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
1135 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
1136 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
1139 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
1140 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
1141 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
1143 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
1145 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
1147 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
1149 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
1150 ~> bindings were greatly improved
1151 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
1153 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
1154 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
1157 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
1159 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
1160 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
1161 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
1162 Use send/receive instead.
1163 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
1164 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
1165 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
1166 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
1167 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
1168 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
1169 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
1170 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
1171 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
1172 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
1173 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
1174 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
1175 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
1176 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
1178 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
1179 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
1180 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
1181 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
1182 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
1183 such thing for that specific task.
1184 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
1185 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
1186 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
1187 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
1188 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
1190 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
1191 the deprecated put/get interface.
1192 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
1193 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
1195 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
1196 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
1197 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
1198 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
1200 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
1201 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
1202 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
1203 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
1204 - Fix implementation of collective operations
1205 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
1207 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
1208 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
1209 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
1210 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
1211 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
1213 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
1215 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
1216 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
1217 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
1218 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
1219 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
1220 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
1221 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
1222 * Bug fixes include:
1223 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
1224 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
1225 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
1226 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
1227 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
1229 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
1230 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
1231 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
1232 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
1233 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
1234 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
1236 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
1237 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
1238 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
1239 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
1240 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
1241 * Refactoring context stuff:
1242 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
1243 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
1244 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
1246 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
1248 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
1249 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
1250 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
1251 o network_model -> network/model
1252 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
1253 * New configuration variables:
1254 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
1255 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
1256 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
1257 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
1258 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
1259 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
1261 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
1262 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
1263 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
1264 When so, you need to use the following functions
1265 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
1266 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1267 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1268 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
1269 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
1271 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
1272 Tracing for Visualization:
1273 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
1274 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
1275 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
1276 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
1277 (among other functions).
1278 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
1279 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
1280 traces with the Triva tool is written.
1281 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
1284 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
1285 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
1286 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
1287 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1288 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
1289 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
1290 * Added code coverage tests.
1291 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
1293 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
1295 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
1297 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
1299 Models improvements:
1300 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
1301 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
1302 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
1303 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
1304 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
1305 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
1306 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
1307 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
1308 actions on SURF kernel.
1309 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
1310 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
1311 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
1312 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
1313 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
1314 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
1315 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
1316 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
1317 availability trace files.
1318 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
1319 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
1320 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
1321 faster than the old CPU models.
1322 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
1323 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
1324 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
1325 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
1328 ******************************************
1329 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
1330 ******************************************
1331 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
1332 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
1333 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
1334 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
1335 of simulations in some cases.
1336 * The new network model will change simulations!
1337 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
1338 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
1339 Sorry for the inconvenience.
1342 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
1343 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
1344 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
1345 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
1347 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
1348 amd64 to confirm that gain.
1351 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
1352 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
1355 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
1356 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
1357 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
1358 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
1359 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
1360 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
1361 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
1364 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
1365 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
1366 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
1367 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
1368 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
1369 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
1370 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
1371 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
1372 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
1373 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
1374 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
1375 about the task in dotty format
1376 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
1377 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
1379 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
1380 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
1381 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
1382 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
1383 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
1384 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
1385 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
1388 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
1391 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
1392 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
1393 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
1394 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
1395 thread (used in SG only for now)
1396 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
1399 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
1400 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
1401 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
1402 the comm should be done.
1403 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
1404 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
1405 use the private link instead)
1406 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
1407 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
1408 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
1409 to make it less stupid
1410 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
1411 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
1412 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
1413 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
1414 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1415 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1416 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1417 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1418 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1419 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1420 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1421 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1422 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1424 Portability report of this version:
1425 * Main portability targets:
1426 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1427 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1428 - mac leopard on i386
1429 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1430 but nothing critical.
1431 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1433 Timing report of this version:
1434 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1435 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1436 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1438 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1440 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1442 The "Need for Speed" release.
1444 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1445 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1447 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1448 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1449 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1451 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1452 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1454 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1455 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1456 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1457 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1458 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1459 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1461 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1462 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1463 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1464 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1465 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1467 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1468 alone. We have to choose between:
1469 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1470 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1471 - live with low performance
1472 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1474 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1476 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1478 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1480 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1481 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1484 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1485 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1486 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1487 => kill now useless network_card concept
1488 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1489 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1490 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1491 - Add three new models:
1492 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1493 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1494 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1495 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1496 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1498 * Simplify model declaration
1499 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1500 - Factorize stuff between models:
1503 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1504 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1505 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1506 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1507 - Rename model methods:
1508 action_free ~> action_unref
1509 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1510 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1511 - Change model methods into functions :
1512 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1514 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1515 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1516 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1517 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1518 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1520 * Improve the action object model
1521 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1522 initialization in generic_action part.
1524 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1525 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1528 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1529 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1530 => a lot of code was factorized
1531 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1532 - simpler API for the context factory
1533 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1534 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1535 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1536 and the code is a lot more readable.
1539 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1540 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1541 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1542 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1544 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1545 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1546 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1547 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1549 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1550 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1553 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1554 Shout out if you used it.
1557 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1561 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1562 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1563 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1564 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1565 * Remove the context module
1567 Portability report of this version:
1568 * Main portability targets:
1569 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1570 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1571 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1572 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1573 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1574 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1575 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1577 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1578 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1579 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1580 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1583 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1584 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1585 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1587 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1588 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1590 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1593 Timing report of this version:
1594 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1595 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1596 investigating this for next release.
1598 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1600 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1603 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1604 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1607 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1608 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1609 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1610 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1611 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1612 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1613 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1614 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1615 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1616 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1617 clean on that point too ;)
1618 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1619 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1620 This helps debugging.
1621 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1625 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1626 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1627 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1628 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1629 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1630 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1631 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1632 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1633 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1634 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1636 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1637 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1638 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1639 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1640 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1641 - failure during communications were not working
1644 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1645 process in the log messages.
1646 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1647 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1650 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1653 * Massive internal cleanups:
1654 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1655 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1657 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1658 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1659 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1660 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1662 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1663 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1664 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1665 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1666 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1669 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1670 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1671 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1674 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1675 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1676 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1677 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1681 Portability report of this version:
1682 * Main portability targets:
1683 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1684 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1685 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1686 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1687 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1688 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1689 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1692 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1693 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1694 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1695 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1696 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1697 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1700 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1701 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1702 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1704 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1707 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1709 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1713 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1714 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1716 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1719 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1720 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1721 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1723 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1724 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1726 **************************************
1727 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1728 **************************************
1729 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1730 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1731 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1732 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1734 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1735 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1737 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1738 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1739 output match an expected output [Mt].
1741 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1742 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1743 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1745 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1746 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1747 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1750 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1751 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1752 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1753 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1754 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1756 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1757 linux ones too) [Mt]
1758 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1759 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1760 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1761 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1764 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1765 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1766 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1767 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1768 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1769 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1770 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1771 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1772 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1774 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1775 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1776 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1777 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1778 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1779 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1781 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1782 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1783 root directly) [Mt].
1786 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1787 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1788 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1789 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1790 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1791 was thus designed [AL].
1792 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1793 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1795 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1797 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1798 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1799 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1802 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1804 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1805 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1806 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1808 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1810 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1814 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1815 least MSG is usable.
1817 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1818 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1819 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1820 you can write (and must)
1821 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1822 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1823 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1824 - Impacted functions:
1825 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1826 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1827 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1828 (just like the main() function)
1830 GRAS new features and improvements:
1831 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1832 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1833 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1834 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1836 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1837 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1838 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1839 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1840 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1841 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1842 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1843 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1844 No big deal usually.
1845 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1846 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1847 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1848 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1849 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1852 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1853 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1854 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1855 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1856 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1857 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1860 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1861 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1862 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1865 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1866 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1867 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1868 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1869 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1873 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1874 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1875 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1877 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1878 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1879 and allocating new ones.
1881 Documentation update:
1882 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1883 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1884 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1885 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1886 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1887 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1888 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1889 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1891 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1892 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1894 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1895 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1896 o Part 2: Message passing
1897 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1898 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1899 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1900 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1901 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1902 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1903 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1904 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1905 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1906 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1907 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1908 - A HOWTO section containing:
1909 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1910 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1911 check the examples which are still here.
1913 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1915 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1919 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1920 with these versions. [Vince]
1923 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1924 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1925 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1926 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1927 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1930 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1931 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1932 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1933 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1934 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1935 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1936 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1939 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1940 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1941 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1942 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1943 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1945 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1946 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1949 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1950 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1951 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1952 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1953 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1954 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1955 correctly handled). [AL]
1956 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1960 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1961 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1963 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1964 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1966 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1967 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1969 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1970 within a given period.
1971 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1972 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1973 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1974 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1975 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1979 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1980 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1981 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1982 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1983 * Peer management module:
1984 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1987 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1988 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1989 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1990 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1991 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1992 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1993 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1994 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1995 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1996 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1997 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1998 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1999 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
2000 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
2001 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
2002 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
2003 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
2005 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
2006 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
2007 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
2009 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
2011 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
2014 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
2015 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
2016 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2017 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
2018 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2019 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2020 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
2021 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
2022 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2023 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
2024 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2025 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2027 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
2028 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
2029 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
2030 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
2031 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
2032 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
2033 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
2036 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
2037 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
2040 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
2041 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
2044 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
2045 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
2046 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
2047 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
2049 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
2050 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
2052 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
2053 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
2054 to be given thru annotations.
2055 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
2056 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
2058 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
2060 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
2061 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
2064 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
2065 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
2068 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
2069 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
2070 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
2071 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
2073 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
2074 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
2075 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
2076 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
2078 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
2079 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
2080 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
2081 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
2082 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
2083 everything is arrived
2084 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
2086 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
2088 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
2089 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
2090 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
2091 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
2092 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
2093 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
2096 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
2097 doing as few data copy as possible.
2099 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
2100 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
2101 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
2102 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
2104 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
2106 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
2108 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
2111 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
2112 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
2113 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
2115 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
2117 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
2123 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
2124 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
2125 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
2126 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
2129 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
2130 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
2131 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
2132 network model) if none was precised.
2135 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
2137 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
2138 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
2139 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
2140 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
2141 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
2142 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
2143 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
2145 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
2146 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
2148 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
2149 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
2151 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
2152 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
2153 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
2154 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
2155 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
2156 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
2158 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
2159 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
2161 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
2163 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
2167 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
2168 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
2171 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
2172 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
2174 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
2177 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
2179 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
2180 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
2183 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
2184 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
2185 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
2186 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
2187 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
2188 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
2189 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
2190 in place before [MQ]
2193 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
2194 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
2195 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
2196 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
2197 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
2198 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
2199 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
2200 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
2201 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
2204 GRAS (minor cleanups)
2205 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
2208 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
2209 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
2211 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
2212 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
2213 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
2214 meaning in networking community.
2217 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
2218 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
2219 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
2220 * New module: bandwidth
2221 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
2223 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
2225 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
2227 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
2231 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
2234 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
2237 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
2238 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
2240 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
2241 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
2242 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
2246 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
2247 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
2248 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
2249 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
2250 you need on the simulator.
2254 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
2255 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
2256 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
2257 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
2258 needed by MSG examples complications
2259 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
2262 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
2263 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
2264 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
2268 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
2269 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
2270 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
2271 (and therefore delayed).
2272 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
2273 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
2274 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
2275 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
2276 - move some private declaration to the right place
2277 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
2278 - document the module
2279 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
2280 * Documentation improvements:
2281 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
2282 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
2284 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
2286 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
2288 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
2291 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
2292 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
2296 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
2297 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
2299 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
2300 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
2301 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
2302 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
2303 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
2304 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
2305 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
2306 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
2307 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
2308 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
2311 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
2312 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
2314 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
2317 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
2319 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
2321 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
2325 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
2326 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
2327 remote compilation helpers.
2329 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
2333 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
2335 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
2337 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
2338 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
2339 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
2340 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
2342 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
2344 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
2346 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
2350 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
2352 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
2353 through the function MSG_paje_output.
2354 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
2355 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
2356 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
2357 to write it in the changelog).
2358 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
2363 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
2364 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
2365 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
2367 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
2368 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
2369 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
2370 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
2372 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
2373 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
2374 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
2375 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
2377 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
2378 lookup time (for now).
2379 Use it in msg and trp.
2380 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
2381 headers between the gras components.
2382 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
2383 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
2384 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
2386 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
2388 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
2390 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
2392 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
2394 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
2395 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
2396 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
2397 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
2398 summary of the main changes.
2400 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
2401 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
2402 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
2403 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
2404 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
2405 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
2406 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
2407 in the documentation.
2409 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
2410 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
2411 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
2412 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
2413 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
2414 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2416 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2417 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2418 with the previous version are :
2419 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2420 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2421 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2422 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2423 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2424 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2425 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2426 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2427 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2429 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2430 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2431 dictionaries that are much faster).
2433 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2435 *****************************************************************************
2436 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2437 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2438 *****************************************************************************
2441 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2442 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2443 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2446 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2449 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2450 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2451 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2453 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2454 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2455 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2456 to 'make check' over there yet.
2458 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2459 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2460 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2461 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2462 trees. One day maybe...
2463 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2464 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2465 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2466 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2469 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2470 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2472 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2473 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2474 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2475 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2477 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2478 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2480 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2481 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2482 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2483 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2484 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2485 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2487 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2488 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2489 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2490 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2491 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2492 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2493 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2494 - e_toto_t is an enum
2495 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2497 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2498 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2499 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2500 s_toto_t) is private.
2502 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2503 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2504 it changed for dynars.
2506 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2507 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2509 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2510 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2512 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2514 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2515 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2516 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2518 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2519 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2521 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2522 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2524 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2525 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2526 far more lookup than setting.
2528 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2530 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2531 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2533 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2534 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2535 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2537 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2538 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2540 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2541 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2543 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2544 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2545 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2547 - Header reorganization.
2548 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2550 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2551 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2553 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2554 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2555 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2556 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2557 This simplify the API a lot.
2559 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2560 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2561 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2562 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2565 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2567 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2568 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2571 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2572 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2575 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2576 - Finish the port to AIX.
2577 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2578 function. No idea why)
2580 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2581 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2583 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2584 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2585 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2587 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2589 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2590 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2591 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2592 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2594 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2595 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2596 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2597 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2598 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2599 hopefully usefull message.
2600 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2602 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2603 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2604 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2606 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2607 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2608 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2609 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2611 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2612 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2613 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2614 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2615 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2616 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2617 - search not dichotomial yet
2618 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2619 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2620 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2621 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2622 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2623 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2624 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2625 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2626 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2627 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2628 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2630 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2631 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2632 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2635 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2636 the ID of this type.
2638 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2639 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2640 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2641 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2642 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2643 real life and on sg in simulation).
2644 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2645 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2646 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2647 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2648 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2649 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2650 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2651 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2652 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2653 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2654 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2657 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2658 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2659 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2660 - shorted the function names:
2661 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2662 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2663 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2664 pop their size of the stack.
2665 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2666 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2667 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2668 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2670 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2671 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2672 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2673 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2675 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2676 - understand it again
2677 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2678 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2679 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2680 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2682 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2683 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2685 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2686 - Some documentation cleanups
2687 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2688 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2689 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2690 gras -> . symbolic link
2691 - make distcheck is now successful
2693 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2695 - Build shared library also
2696 - Install html doc to the right location
2697 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2698 - build tests only on make check
2700 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2702 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2703 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2704 corresponding dataset.
2706 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2708 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2709 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2710 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2711 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2713 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2714 [autoconf mechanism]
2715 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2716 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2717 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2718 Alignment is a serious matter)
2719 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2720 constraints of each types)
2721 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2723 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2724 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2725 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2726 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2727 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2728 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2729 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2731 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2732 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2734 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2735 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2736 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2738 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2739 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2740 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2741 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2742 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2744 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2745 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2746 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2747 generated as first byte.
2748 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2749 architecture descriptions.
2750 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2751 on those architectures.
2752 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2754 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2755 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2757 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2758 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2759 settings will be separated
2760 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2762 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2764 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2765 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2766 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2767 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2769 [gras_stub_generator]
2770 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2772 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2773 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2774 them all up in one shot)
2776 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2777 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2778 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2780 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2781 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2782 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2784 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2785 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2786 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2787 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2788 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2789 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2791 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2793 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2795 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2796 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2799 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2800 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2801 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2803 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2805 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2807 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2809 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2810 - kill a few lines of dead code
2811 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2812 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2813 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2815 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2816 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2818 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2819 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2820 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2822 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2824 - Porting to new standards.
2826 - interface cleanup.
2827 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2828 pointers behind "ID".
2829 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2830 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2831 interleaved, but anyway.
2833 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2835 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2837 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2838 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2839 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
2841 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2843 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2845 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2846 - send/receive function.
2847 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2848 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2849 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2850 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2851 - base types: int, float
2852 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2853 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2854 - chained list, graph with cycle
2855 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2856 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2860 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2862 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2864 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2865 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2867 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2869 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2870 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2871 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2873 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2874 (the latter function is removed)
2875 [Conditional execution]
2876 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2877 [Code reorganisation]
2878 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2879 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2880 its creation for now.
2882 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2883 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since