1 SimGrid (3.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
5 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
6 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
7 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
8 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
9 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
10 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
11 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
12 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms. [AL]
13 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
14 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
17 * complete rewrote of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
18 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
19 failures. This is now the standard model for MSG and GRAS. [AL]
22 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
23 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
24 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
25 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
28 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
29 Exception occuring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
31 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
32 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
34 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
35 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
40 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
41 impossible to mesure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
42 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic.
46 SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
50 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
51 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
52 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
53 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
54 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
55 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
56 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
57 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
58 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
59 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
60 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
62 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
63 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
64 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
65 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
66 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
67 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
68 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
71 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
72 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
75 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
76 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
79 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
80 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
81 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
82 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
84 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
85 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
87 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
88 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
89 to be given thru annotations.
90 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
91 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
93 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
95 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
96 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
99 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
100 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
103 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
104 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
105 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
106 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
108 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
109 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
110 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
111 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
113 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
114 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
115 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
116 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
117 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
118 everything is arrived
119 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
121 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
123 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
124 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
125 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
126 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
127 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
128 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
131 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
132 doing as few data copy as possible.
134 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
135 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
136 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
137 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
139 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
141 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
143 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=low
146 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
147 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
148 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
150 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
152 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
157 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
158 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
159 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
160 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
161 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
164 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
165 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
166 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
167 network model) if none was precised.
170 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
172 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
173 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
174 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
175 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
176 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
177 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
178 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
180 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
181 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
183 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
184 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
186 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
187 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
188 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
189 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
190 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
191 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
193 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
194 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
196 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
198 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
202 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
203 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
206 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
207 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
209 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
212 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
214 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
215 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
218 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
219 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
220 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
221 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
222 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
223 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
224 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
228 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
229 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
230 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
231 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
232 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
233 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
234 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
235 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
236 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
239 GRAS (minor cleanups)
240 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
243 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
244 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
246 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
247 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
248 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
249 meaning in networking community.
252 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
253 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
254 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
255 * New module: bandwidth
256 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
258 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
260 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
262 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
266 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
269 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
272 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
273 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
275 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
276 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
277 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
281 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
282 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
283 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
284 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
285 you need on the simulator.
289 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
290 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
291 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
292 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
293 needed by MSG examples complications
294 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
297 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
298 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
299 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
303 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
304 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
305 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
306 (and therefore delayed).
307 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
308 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
309 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
310 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
311 - move some private declaration to the right place
312 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
313 - document the module
314 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
315 * Documentation improvements:
316 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
317 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
319 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
321 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
323 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
326 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
327 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
331 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
332 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
334 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
335 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
336 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
337 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
338 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
339 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
340 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
341 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
342 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
343 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
346 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
347 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
349 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
352 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
354 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
356 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
360 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
361 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
362 remote compilation helpers.
364 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
368 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
370 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
372 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
373 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
374 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
375 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
377 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
379 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
381 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
385 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
387 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
388 through the function MSG_paje_output.
389 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
390 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
391 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
392 to write it in the changelog).
393 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
398 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
399 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
400 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
402 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
403 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
404 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
405 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
407 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
408 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
409 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
410 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
412 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
413 lookup time (for now).
414 Use it in msg and trp.
415 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
416 headers between the gras components.
417 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
418 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
419 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
421 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
423 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
425 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
427 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
429 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
430 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
431 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
432 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
433 summary of the main changes.
435 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
436 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
437 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
438 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
439 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
440 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
441 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
442 in the documentation.
444 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
445 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
446 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
447 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
448 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
449 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
451 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
452 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
453 with the previous version are :
454 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
455 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
456 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
457 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
458 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
459 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
460 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
461 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
462 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
464 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
465 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
466 dictionaries that are much faster).
468 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
470 *****************************************************************************
471 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
472 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
473 *****************************************************************************
476 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
477 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
478 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
481 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
484 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
485 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
486 performance on which you can execute some actions.
488 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
489 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
490 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
491 to 'make check' over there yet.
493 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
494 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
495 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
496 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
497 trees. One day maybe...
498 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
499 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
500 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
501 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
504 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
505 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
507 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
508 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
509 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
510 run effectively faster than before now. :)
512 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
513 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
515 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
516 - Introduction of the remote errors.
517 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
518 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
519 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
520 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
522 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
523 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
524 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
525 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
526 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
527 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
528 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
529 - e_toto_t is an enum
530 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
532 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
533 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
534 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
535 s_toto_t) is private.
537 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
538 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
539 it changed for dynars.
541 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
542 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
544 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
545 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
547 gras_dynar_get is dead.
549 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
550 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
551 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
553 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
554 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
556 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
557 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
559 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
560 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
561 far more lookup than setting.
563 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
565 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
566 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
568 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
569 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
570 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
572 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
573 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
575 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
576 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
578 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
579 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
580 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
582 - Header reorganization.
583 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
585 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
586 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
588 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
589 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
590 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
591 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
592 This simplify the API a lot.
594 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
595 - Re-enable raw sockets.
596 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
597 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
600 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
602 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
603 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
606 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
607 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
610 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
611 - Finish the port to AIX.
612 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
613 function. No idea why)
615 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
616 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
618 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
619 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
620 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
622 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
624 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
625 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
626 - Allow to document the logging categories.
627 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
629 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
630 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
631 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
632 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
633 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
634 hopefully usefull message.
635 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
637 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
638 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
639 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
641 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
642 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
643 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
644 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
646 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
647 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
648 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
649 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
650 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
651 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
652 - search not dichotomial yet
653 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
654 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
655 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
656 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
657 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
658 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
659 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
660 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
661 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
662 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
663 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
665 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
666 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
667 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
670 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
673 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
674 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
675 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
676 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
677 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
678 real life and on sg in simulation).
679 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
680 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
681 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
682 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
683 that's damn hard in C (at least).
684 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
685 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
686 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
687 See comment in transport_private.h:71
688 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
689 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
692 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
693 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
694 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
695 - shorted the function names:
696 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
697 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
698 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
699 pop their size of the stack.
700 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
701 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
702 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
703 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
705 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
706 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
707 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
708 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
710 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
711 - understand it again
712 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
713 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
714 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
715 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
717 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
718 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
720 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
721 - Some documentation cleanups
722 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
723 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
724 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
725 gras -> . symbolic link
726 - make distcheck is now successful
728 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
730 - Build shared library also
731 - Install html doc to the right location
732 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
733 - build tests only on make check
735 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
737 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
738 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
739 corresponding dataset.
741 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
743 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
744 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
745 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
746 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
748 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
750 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
751 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
752 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
753 Alignment is a serious matter)
754 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
755 constraints of each types)
756 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
758 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
759 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
760 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
761 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
762 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
763 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
764 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
766 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
767 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
769 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
770 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
771 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
773 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
774 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
775 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
776 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
777 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
779 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
780 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
781 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
782 generated as first byte.
783 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
784 architecture descriptions.
785 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
786 on those architectures.
787 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
789 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
790 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
792 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
793 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
794 settings will be separated
795 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
797 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
799 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
800 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
801 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
802 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
804 [gras_stub_generator]
805 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
807 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
808 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
809 them all up in one shot)
811 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
812 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
813 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
815 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
816 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
817 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
819 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
820 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
821 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
822 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
823 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
824 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
826 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
828 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
830 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
831 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
834 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
835 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
836 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
838 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
840 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
842 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
844 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
845 - kill a few lines of dead code
846 [Data description] Interface cleanup
847 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
848 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
850 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
851 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
853 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
854 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
855 This is consistant with the dynar API.
857 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
859 - Porting to new standards.
862 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
863 pointers behind "ID".
864 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
865 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
866 interleaved, but anyway.
868 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
870 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
872 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
873 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
874 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
876 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
878 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
880 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
881 - send/receive function.
882 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
883 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
884 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
885 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
886 - base types: int, float
887 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
888 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
889 - chained list, graph with cycle
890 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
891 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
895 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
897 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
899 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
900 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
902 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
904 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
905 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
906 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
908 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
909 (the latter function is removed)
910 [Conditional execution]
911 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
912 [Code reorganisation]
913 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
914 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
915 its creation for now.