1 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
4 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
5 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
6 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
9 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
12 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
13 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
14 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
17 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
20 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
21 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
22 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
23 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
25 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
26 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
27 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
28 feature, any help would be really welcome.
30 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
32 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
34 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
37 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
38 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
39 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
40 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
41 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
42 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
43 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
44 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
45 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
46 Accuracy should be improved this way.
47 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
48 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
49 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
50 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
51 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
52 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
53 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
54 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
55 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
56 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
57 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
58 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
59 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
60 network/coordinates, and document it
61 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
62 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
63 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
64 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
65 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
68 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
69 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
70 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
71 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
72 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
73 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
74 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
75 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
76 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
77 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
78 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
79 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
82 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
83 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
84 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
85 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
86 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
87 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
88 execution mode (raw contexts only)
89 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
90 synchronization structures.
91 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
92 in very specific conditions.
95 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
96 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
97 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
98 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
99 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
100 This is released anyway because YMMV.
103 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
104 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
108 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
111 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
112 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
113 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
114 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
115 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
116 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
117 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
118 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
119 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
120 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
121 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
122 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
123 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
124 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
125 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
126 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
129 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
130 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
131 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
132 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
133 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
136 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
137 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
138 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
142 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
143 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
145 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg.simix,xbt}-log=...
146 don't exists anymore.
147 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
149 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
150 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
151 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
152 deprecated in the next release.
153 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
154 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
156 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
157 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
158 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
159 element is not found.
161 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
162 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
164 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
165 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
166 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
167 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
168 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
169 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
170 necessary at this point to get MC working.
172 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
173 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
175 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
177 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
179 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
182 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
183 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
184 (portable) ones when possible.
185 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
186 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
187 * Update the XML platforms:
188 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
189 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
190 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
192 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
193 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
194 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
196 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
197 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
200 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
201 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
202 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
203 its compilation burden
204 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
205 * Port to Windows 64 bits
206 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
207 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
208 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
209 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
210 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
211 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
214 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
216 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
218 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
221 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
222 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
223 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
224 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
225 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
228 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
230 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
232 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
234 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
237 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
238 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
239 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
241 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
242 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
244 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
245 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
246 but it may soon become the case.
249 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
250 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
251 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
252 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
253 local static variables.
254 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
258 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
259 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
260 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
262 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
263 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
264 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
265 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
267 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
268 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
269 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
270 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
271 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
272 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
273 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
274 index of a finished communication (if any).
275 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
278 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
279 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
280 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
281 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
283 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
284 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
285 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
286 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
287 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
288 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
289 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
290 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
293 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
295 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
296 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
297 do the work in an efficient manner.
298 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
299 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
300 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
301 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
302 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
303 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
304 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
305 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
306 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
307 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
309 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
313 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
314 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
315 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
316 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
317 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
318 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
319 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
320 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
321 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
322 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
323 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
324 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
326 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
327 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
331 * New configuration options
332 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
333 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
334 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
335 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
336 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
337 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
338 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
340 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
341 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
342 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
343 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
344 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
345 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
346 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
347 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
348 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
350 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
351 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
352 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
353 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
354 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
355 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
356 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
359 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
360 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
361 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
362 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
363 could rely on that macro to adapt.
364 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
365 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
366 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
367 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
368 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
370 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
372 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
375 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
376 Check SIN#1 for more details.
379 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
380 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
381 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
382 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
383 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
384 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
385 * See also src/smpi/README
390 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
391 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
392 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
393 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
394 same for MSG and SimDag.
395 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
397 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
398 where color must be in the following format
399 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
400 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
401 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
403 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
404 - The following command-line options are supported:
405 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
406 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
407 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
408 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
409 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
410 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
411 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
412 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
413 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
414 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
416 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
417 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
418 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
419 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
420 - Collective operations are traced with states
421 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
422 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
423 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
424 is compiled with tracing enabled)
425 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
426 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
427 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
428 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
429 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
430 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
431 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
432 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
435 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
436 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
437 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
438 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
439 * New function: MSG_set_function
440 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
441 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
443 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
444 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
445 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
448 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
449 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
450 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
451 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
452 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
453 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
454 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
455 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
456 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
457 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
458 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
459 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
461 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
462 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
463 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
464 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
465 you want to use this routing scheme.
466 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
467 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
468 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
469 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
470 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
471 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
472 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
473 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
474 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
475 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
477 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
478 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
479 results when exchanging small messages.
480 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
481 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
482 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
485 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
486 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
487 dependencies are satisfied) state.
488 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
489 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
490 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
491 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
492 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
493 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
494 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
495 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
496 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
497 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
498 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
499 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
500 installation of the graphviz library.
501 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
502 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
503 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
504 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
505 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
506 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
507 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
508 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
509 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
510 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
511 using a Min-Min strategy.
512 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
513 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
515 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
516 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
519 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
520 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
521 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
522 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
523 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
524 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
525 Please use (proper) visualization instead
528 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
529 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
530 independent segments of malloc)
531 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
532 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
533 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
534 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
535 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
536 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
537 uninitialized areas during expand.
538 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
539 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
540 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
541 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
542 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
545 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
546 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
547 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
548 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
549 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
550 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
551 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
552 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
554 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
555 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
556 * Port to windows ( TM :)
557 * Fix the 'make install' target.
558 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
559 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
560 'make package' compiles a binary archive
561 * Compile java files only on need
562 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
563 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
564 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
567 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
568 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
569 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
571 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
573 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
575 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
576 This is a bug fixes release only.
580 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
583 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
584 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
585 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
588 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
589 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
592 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
593 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
594 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
596 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
598 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
600 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
602 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
603 ~> bindings were greatly improved
604 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
606 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
607 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
610 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
612 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
613 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
614 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
615 Use send/receive instead.
616 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
617 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
618 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
619 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
620 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
621 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
622 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
623 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
624 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
625 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
626 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
627 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
628 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
629 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
631 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
632 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
633 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
634 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
635 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
636 such thing for that specific task.
637 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
638 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
639 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
640 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
641 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
643 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
644 the deprecated put/get interface.
645 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
646 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
648 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
649 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
650 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
651 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
653 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
654 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
655 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
656 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
657 - Fix implementation of collective operations
658 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
660 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
661 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
662 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
663 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
664 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
666 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
668 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
669 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
670 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
671 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
672 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
673 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
674 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
676 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
677 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
678 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
679 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
680 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
682 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
683 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
684 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
685 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
686 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
687 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
689 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
690 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
691 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
692 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
693 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
694 * Refactoring context stuff:
695 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
696 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
697 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
699 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
701 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
702 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
703 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
704 o network_model -> network/model
705 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
706 * New configuration variables:
707 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
708 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
709 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
710 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
711 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
712 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
714 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
715 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
716 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
717 When so, you need to use the following functions
718 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
719 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
720 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
721 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
722 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
724 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
725 Tracing for Visualization:
726 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
727 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
728 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
729 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
730 (among other functions).
731 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
732 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
733 traces with the Triva tool is written.
734 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
737 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
738 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
739 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
740 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
741 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
742 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
743 * Added code coverage tests.
744 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
746 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
748 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
750 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
753 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
754 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
755 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
756 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
757 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
758 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
759 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
760 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
761 actions on SURF kernel.
762 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
763 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
764 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
765 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
766 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
767 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
768 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
769 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
770 availability trace files.
771 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
772 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
773 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
774 faster than the old CPU models.
775 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
776 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
777 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
778 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
781 ******************************************
782 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
783 ******************************************
784 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
785 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
786 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
787 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
788 of simulations in some cases.
789 * The new network model will change simulations!
790 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
791 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
792 Sorry for the inconvenience.
795 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
796 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
797 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
798 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
800 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
801 amd64 to confirm that gain.
804 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
805 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
808 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
809 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
810 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
811 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
812 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
813 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
814 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
817 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
818 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
819 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
820 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
821 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
822 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
823 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
824 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
825 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
826 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
827 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
828 about the task in dotty format
829 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
830 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
832 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
833 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
834 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
835 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
836 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
837 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
838 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
841 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
844 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
845 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
846 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
847 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
848 thread (used in SG only for now)
849 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
852 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
853 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
854 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
855 the comm should be done.
856 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
857 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
858 use the private link instead)
859 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
860 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
861 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
862 to make it less stupid
863 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
864 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
865 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
866 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
867 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
868 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
869 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
870 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
871 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
872 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
873 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
874 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
875 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
877 Portability report of this version:
878 * Main portability targets:
879 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
881 - mac leopard on i386
882 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
883 but nothing critical.
884 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
886 Timing report of this version:
887 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
888 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
889 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
891 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
893 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
895 The "Need for Speed" release.
897 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
898 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
900 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
901 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
902 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
904 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
905 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
907 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
908 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
909 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
910 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
911 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
912 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
914 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
915 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
916 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
917 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
918 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
920 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
921 alone. We have to choose between:
922 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
923 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
924 - live with low performance
925 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
927 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
929 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
931 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
933 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
934 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
937 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
938 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
939 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
940 => kill now useless network_card concept
941 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
942 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
943 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
944 - Add three new models:
945 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
946 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
947 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
948 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
949 described in his ICCS09 paper.
951 * Simplify model declaration
952 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
953 - Factorize stuff between models:
956 surf_model_resource_set(model)
957 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
958 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
959 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
960 - Rename model methods:
961 action_free ~> action_unref
962 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
963 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
964 - Change model methods into functions :
965 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
967 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
968 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
969 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
970 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
971 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
973 * Improve the action object model
974 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
975 initialization in generic_action part.
977 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
978 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
981 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
982 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
983 => a lot of code was factorized
984 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
985 - simpler API for the context factory
986 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
987 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
988 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
989 and the code is a lot more readable.
992 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
993 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
994 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
997 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
998 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
999 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1000 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1002 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1003 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1006 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1007 Shout out if you used it.
1010 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1014 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1015 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1016 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1017 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1018 * Remove the context module
1020 Portability report of this version:
1021 * Main portability targets:
1022 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1023 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1024 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1025 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1026 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1027 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1028 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1030 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1031 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1032 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1033 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1036 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1037 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1038 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1040 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1041 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1043 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1046 Timing report of this version:
1047 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1048 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1049 investigating this for next release.
1051 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1053 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1056 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1057 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1060 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1061 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1062 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1063 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1064 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1065 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1066 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1067 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1068 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1069 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1070 clean on that point too ;)
1071 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1072 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1073 This helps debugging.
1074 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1078 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1079 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1080 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1081 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1082 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1083 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1084 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1085 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1086 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1087 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1089 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1090 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1091 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1092 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1093 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1094 - failure during communications were not working
1097 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1098 process in the log messages.
1099 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1100 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1103 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1106 * Massive internal cleanups:
1107 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1108 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1110 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1111 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1112 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1113 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1115 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1116 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1117 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1118 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1119 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1122 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1123 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1124 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1127 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1128 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1129 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1130 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1134 Portability report of this version:
1135 * Main portability targets:
1136 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1137 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1138 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1139 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1140 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1141 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1142 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1145 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1146 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1147 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1148 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1149 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1150 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1153 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1154 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1155 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1157 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1160 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1162 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1166 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1167 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1169 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1172 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1173 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1174 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1176 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1177 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1179 **************************************
1180 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1181 **************************************
1182 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1183 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1184 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1185 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1187 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1188 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1190 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1191 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1192 output match an expected output [Mt].
1194 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1195 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1196 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1198 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1199 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1200 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1203 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1204 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1205 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1206 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1207 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1209 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1210 linux ones too) [Mt]
1211 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1212 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1213 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1214 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1217 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1218 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1219 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1220 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1221 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1222 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1223 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1224 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1225 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1227 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1228 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1229 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1230 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1231 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1232 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1234 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1235 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1236 root directly) [Mt].
1239 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1240 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1241 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1242 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1243 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1244 was thus designed [AL].
1245 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1246 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1248 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1250 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1251 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1252 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1255 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1257 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1258 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1259 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1261 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1263 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1267 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1268 least MSG is usable.
1270 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1271 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1272 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1273 you can write (and must)
1274 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1275 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1276 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1277 - Impacted functions:
1278 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1279 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1280 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1281 (just like the main() function)
1283 GRAS new features and improvements:
1284 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1285 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1286 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1287 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1289 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1290 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1291 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1292 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1293 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1294 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1295 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1296 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1297 No big deal usually.
1298 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1299 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1300 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1301 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1302 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1305 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1306 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1307 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1308 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1309 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1310 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1313 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1314 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1315 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1318 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1319 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1320 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1321 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1322 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1326 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1327 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1328 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1330 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1331 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1332 and allocating new ones.
1334 Documentation update:
1335 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1336 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1337 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1338 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1339 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1340 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1341 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1342 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1344 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1345 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1347 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1348 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1349 o Part 2: Message passing
1350 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1351 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1352 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1353 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1354 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1355 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1356 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1357 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1358 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1359 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1360 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1361 - A HOWTO section containing:
1362 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1363 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1364 check the examples which are still here.
1366 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1368 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1372 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1373 with these versions. [Vince]
1376 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1377 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1378 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1379 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1380 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1383 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1384 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1385 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1386 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1387 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1388 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1389 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1392 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1393 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1394 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1395 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1396 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1398 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1399 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1402 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1403 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1404 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1405 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1406 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1407 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1408 correctly handled). [AL]
1409 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1413 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1414 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1416 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1417 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1419 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1420 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1422 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1423 within a given period.
1424 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1425 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1426 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1427 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1428 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1432 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1433 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1434 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1435 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1436 * Peer management module:
1437 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1440 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1441 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1442 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1443 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1444 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1445 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1446 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1447 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1448 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1449 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1450 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1451 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1452 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1453 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1454 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1455 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1456 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1458 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1459 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1460 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1462 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1464 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1467 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1468 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1469 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1470 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1471 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1472 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1473 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1474 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1475 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1476 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1477 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1478 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1480 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1481 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1482 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1483 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1484 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1485 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1486 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1489 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1490 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1493 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1494 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1497 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1498 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1499 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1500 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1502 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1503 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1505 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1506 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1507 to be given thru annotations.
1508 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1509 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1511 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1513 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1514 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1517 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1518 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1521 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1522 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1523 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1524 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1526 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1527 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1528 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1529 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1531 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1532 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1533 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1534 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1535 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1536 everything is arrived
1537 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1539 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1541 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1542 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1543 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1544 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1545 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1546 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1549 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1550 doing as few data copy as possible.
1552 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1553 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1554 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1555 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1557 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1559 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1561 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1564 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1565 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1566 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1568 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1570 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1576 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1577 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1578 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1579 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1582 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1583 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1584 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1585 network model) if none was precised.
1588 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1590 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1591 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1592 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1593 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1594 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1595 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1596 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1598 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1599 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1601 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1602 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1604 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1605 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1606 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1607 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1608 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1609 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1611 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1612 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1614 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1616 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1620 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1621 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1624 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1625 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1627 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1630 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1632 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1633 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1636 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1637 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1638 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1639 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1640 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1641 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1642 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1643 in place before [MQ]
1646 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1647 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1648 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1649 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1650 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1651 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1652 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1653 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1654 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1657 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1658 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1661 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1662 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1664 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1665 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1666 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1667 meaning in networking community.
1670 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1671 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1672 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1673 * New module: bandwidth
1674 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1676 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1678 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1680 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1684 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1687 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1690 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1691 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1693 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1694 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1695 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1699 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1700 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1701 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1702 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1703 you need on the simulator.
1707 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1708 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1709 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1710 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1711 needed by MSG examples complications
1712 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1715 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1716 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1717 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1721 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1722 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1723 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1724 (and therefore delayed).
1725 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1726 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1727 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1728 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1729 - move some private declaration to the right place
1730 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1731 - document the module
1732 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1733 * Documentation improvements:
1734 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1735 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1737 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1739 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1741 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1744 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1745 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1749 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1750 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1752 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1753 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1754 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1755 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1756 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1757 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1758 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1759 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1760 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1761 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1764 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1765 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1767 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1770 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1772 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1774 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1778 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1779 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1780 remote compilation helpers.
1782 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1786 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1788 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1790 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1791 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1792 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1793 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1795 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1797 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1799 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1803 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1805 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1806 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1807 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1808 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1809 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1810 to write it in the changelog).
1811 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1816 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1817 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1818 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1820 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1821 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1822 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1823 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1825 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1826 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1827 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1828 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1830 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1831 lookup time (for now).
1832 Use it in msg and trp.
1833 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1834 headers between the gras components.
1835 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1836 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1837 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1839 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1841 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1843 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1845 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1847 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1848 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1849 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1850 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1851 summary of the main changes.
1853 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1854 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1855 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1856 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1857 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1858 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1859 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1860 in the documentation.
1862 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1863 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1864 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1865 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1866 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1867 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1869 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1870 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1871 with the previous version are :
1872 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1873 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1874 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1875 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1876 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1877 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1878 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1879 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1880 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1882 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1883 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1884 dictionaries that are much faster).
1886 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1888 *****************************************************************************
1889 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1890 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1891 *****************************************************************************
1894 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1895 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1896 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1899 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1902 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1903 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1904 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1906 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1907 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1908 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1909 to 'make check' over there yet.
1911 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1912 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1913 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1914 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1915 trees. One day maybe...
1916 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1917 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1918 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1919 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1922 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1923 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1925 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1926 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1927 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1928 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1930 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1931 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1933 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1934 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1935 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1936 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1937 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1938 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1940 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1941 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1942 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1943 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1944 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1945 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1946 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1947 - e_toto_t is an enum
1948 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1950 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1951 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1952 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1953 s_toto_t) is private.
1955 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1956 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1957 it changed for dynars.
1959 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1960 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1962 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1963 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1965 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1967 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1968 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1969 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1971 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1972 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1974 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1975 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1977 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1978 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1979 far more lookup than setting.
1981 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1983 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1984 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1986 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1987 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1988 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1990 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1991 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1993 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1994 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1996 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1997 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1998 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2000 - Header reorganization.
2001 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2003 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2004 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2006 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2007 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2008 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2009 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2010 This simplify the API a lot.
2012 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2013 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2014 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2015 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2018 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2020 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2021 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2024 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2025 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2028 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2029 - Finish the port to AIX.
2030 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2031 function. No idea why)
2033 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2034 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2036 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2037 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2038 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2040 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2042 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2043 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2044 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2045 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2047 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2048 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2049 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2050 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2051 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2052 hopefully usefull message.
2053 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2055 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2056 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2057 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2059 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2060 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2061 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2062 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2064 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2065 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2066 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2067 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2068 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2069 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2070 - search not dichotomial yet
2071 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2072 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2073 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2074 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2075 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2076 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2077 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2078 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2079 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2080 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2081 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2083 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2084 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2085 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2088 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2089 the ID of this type.
2091 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2092 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2093 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2094 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2095 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2096 real life and on sg in simulation).
2097 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2098 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2099 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2100 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2101 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2102 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2103 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2104 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2105 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2106 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2107 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2110 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2111 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2112 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2113 - shorted the function names:
2114 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2115 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2116 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2117 pop their size of the stack.
2118 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2119 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2120 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2121 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2123 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2124 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2125 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2126 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2128 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2129 - understand it again
2130 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2131 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2132 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2133 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2135 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2136 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2138 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2139 - Some documentation cleanups
2140 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2141 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2142 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2143 gras -> . symbolic link
2144 - make distcheck is now successful
2146 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2148 - Build shared library also
2149 - Install html doc to the right location
2150 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2151 - build tests only on make check
2153 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2155 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2156 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2157 corresponding dataset.
2159 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2161 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2162 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2163 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2164 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2166 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2167 [autoconf mechanism]
2168 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2169 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2170 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2171 Alignment is a serious matter)
2172 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2173 constraints of each types)
2174 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2176 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2177 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2178 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2179 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2180 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2181 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2182 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2184 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2185 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2187 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2188 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2189 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2191 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2192 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2193 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2194 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2195 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2197 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2198 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2199 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2200 generated as first byte.
2201 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2202 architecture descriptions.
2203 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2204 on those architectures.
2205 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2207 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2208 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2210 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2211 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2212 settings will be separated
2213 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2215 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2217 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2218 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2219 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2220 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2222 [gras_stub_generator]
2223 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2225 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2226 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2227 them all up in one shot)
2229 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2230 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2231 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2233 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2234 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2235 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2237 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2238 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2239 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2240 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2241 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2242 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2244 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2246 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2248 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2249 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2252 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2253 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2254 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2256 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2258 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2260 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2262 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2263 - kill a few lines of dead code
2264 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2265 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2266 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2268 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2269 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2271 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2272 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2273 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2275 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2277 - Porting to new standards.
2279 - interface cleanup.
2280 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2281 pointers behind "ID".
2282 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2283 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2284 interleaved, but anyway.
2286 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2288 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2290 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2291 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2292 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
2294 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2296 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2298 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2299 - send/receive function.
2300 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2301 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2302 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2303 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2304 - base types: int, float
2305 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2306 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2307 - chained list, graph with cycle
2308 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2309 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2313 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2315 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2317 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2318 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2320 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2322 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2323 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2324 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2326 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2327 (the latter function is removed)
2328 [Conditional execution]
2329 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2330 [Code reorganisation]
2331 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2332 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2333 its creation for now.
2335 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2336 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since