1 SimGrid (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
4 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
5 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
6 process running on the host receive at most the power provided in
7 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
9 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
10 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
11 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
12 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
13 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
14 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
15 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
16 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
19 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution.
22 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
23 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
24 due to the change to return type of SD_Simulate. See also:
25 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
28 * New configuration options
29 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
30 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
31 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
32 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
33 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
34 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
35 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment creation
36 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
37 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
38 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
39 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
40 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
41 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
42 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
43 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
44 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
46 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
48 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
51 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
52 Check SIN#1 for more details.
55 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
56 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
57 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
58 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
59 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
60 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
61 * See also src/smpi/README
66 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
67 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
68 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
69 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
70 same for MSG and SimDag.
71 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
73 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
74 where color must be in the following format
75 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
76 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
77 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
79 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
80 - The following command-line options are supported:
81 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
82 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
83 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
84 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
85 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
86 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
87 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
88 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
89 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
90 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
92 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
93 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
94 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
95 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
96 - Collective operations are traced with states
97 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
98 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
99 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
100 is compiled with tracing enabled)
101 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
102 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
103 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
104 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
105 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
106 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
107 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
108 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
111 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
112 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
113 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
114 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
115 * New function: MSG_set_function
116 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
117 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
119 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
120 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
121 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
124 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
125 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
126 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
127 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
128 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
129 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
130 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
131 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
132 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
133 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
134 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
135 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealed with by
137 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
138 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
139 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
140 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
141 you want to use this routing scheme.
142 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
143 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
144 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
145 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
146 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
147 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
148 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
149 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
150 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
151 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
153 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
154 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
155 results when exchanging small messages.
156 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
157 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
158 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
161 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
162 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
163 dependencies are satisfied) state.
164 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
165 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
166 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
167 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
168 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
169 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
170 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
171 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
172 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
173 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
174 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
175 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
176 installation of the graphviz library.
177 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
178 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
179 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
180 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
181 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
182 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
183 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
184 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
185 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
186 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
187 using a Min-Min strategy.
188 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
189 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
191 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
192 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
195 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
196 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
197 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
198 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
199 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
200 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
201 Please use (proper) visualization instead
204 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
205 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
206 independent segments of malloc)
207 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
208 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
209 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
210 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
211 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
212 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
213 uninitialized areas during expand.
214 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
215 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
216 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
217 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
218 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
221 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
222 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
223 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
224 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
225 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
226 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
227 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
228 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
230 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
231 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
232 * Port to windows ( TM :)
233 * Fix the 'make install' target.
234 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
235 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
236 'make package' compiles a binary archive
237 * Compile java files only on need
238 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
239 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
240 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
243 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
244 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
245 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
247 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
249 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
251 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
252 This is a bug fixes release only.
256 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
259 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
260 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
261 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
264 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
265 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
268 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
269 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
270 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
272 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
274 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
276 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
278 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
279 ~> bindings were greatly improved
280 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
282 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
283 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
286 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
288 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
289 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
290 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
291 Use send/receive instead.
292 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
293 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
294 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
295 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
296 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
297 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
298 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
299 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
300 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
301 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
302 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
303 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
304 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
305 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
307 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
308 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
309 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
310 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
311 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
312 such thing for that specific task.
313 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
314 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
315 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
316 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
317 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
319 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
320 the deprecated put/get interface.
321 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
322 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
324 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
325 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
326 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
327 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
329 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
330 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
331 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
332 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
333 - Fix implementation of collective operations
334 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
336 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
337 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
338 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
339 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
340 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
342 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
344 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
345 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
346 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
347 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
348 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
349 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
350 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
352 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
353 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
354 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
355 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
356 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
358 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
359 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
360 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
361 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
362 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
363 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
365 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
366 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
367 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
368 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
369 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
370 * Refactoring context stuff:
371 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
372 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
373 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
375 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
377 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
378 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
379 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
380 o network_model -> network/model
381 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
382 * New configuration variables:
383 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
384 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
385 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
386 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
387 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
388 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
390 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
391 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
392 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
393 When so, you need to use the following functions
394 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
395 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
396 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
397 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
398 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
400 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
401 Tracing for Visualization:
402 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
403 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
404 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
405 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
406 (among other functions).
407 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
408 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
409 traces with the Triva tool is written.
410 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
413 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
414 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
415 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
416 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
417 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
418 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
419 * Added code coverage tests.
420 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
422 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
424 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
426 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
429 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
430 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
431 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
432 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
433 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
434 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
435 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
436 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
437 actions on SURF kernel.
438 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
439 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
440 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
441 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
442 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
443 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
444 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
445 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
446 availability trace files.
447 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
448 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
449 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
450 faster than the old CPU models.
451 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
452 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
453 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
454 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
457 ******************************************
458 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
459 ******************************************
460 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
461 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
462 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
463 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
464 of simulations in some cases.
465 * The new network model will change simulations!
466 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
467 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
468 Sorry for the inconvenience.
471 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
472 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
473 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
474 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
476 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
477 amd64 to confirm that gain.
480 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
481 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
484 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
485 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
486 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
487 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
488 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
489 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
490 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
493 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
494 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
495 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
496 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
497 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
498 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
499 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
500 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
501 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
502 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
503 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
504 about the task in dotty format
505 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
506 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
508 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
509 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
510 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
511 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
512 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
513 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
514 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
517 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
520 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
521 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
522 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
523 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
524 thread (used in SG only for now)
525 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
528 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
529 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
530 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
531 the comm should be done.
532 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
533 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
534 use the private link instead)
535 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
536 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
537 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
538 to make it less stupid
539 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
540 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
541 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
542 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
543 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
544 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
545 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
546 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
547 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
548 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
549 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
550 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
551 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
553 Portability report of this version:
554 * Main portability targets:
555 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
557 - mac leopard on i386
558 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
559 but nothing critical.
560 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
562 Timing report of this version:
563 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
564 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
565 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
567 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
569 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
571 The "Need for Speed" release.
573 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
574 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
576 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
577 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
578 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
580 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
581 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
583 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
584 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
585 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
586 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
587 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
588 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
590 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
591 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
592 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
593 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
594 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
596 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
597 alone. We have to choose between:
598 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
599 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
600 - live with low performance
601 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
603 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
605 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
607 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
609 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
610 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
613 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
614 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
615 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
616 => kill now useless network_card concept
617 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
618 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
619 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
620 - Add three new models:
621 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
622 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
623 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
624 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
625 described in his ICCS09 paper.
627 * Simplify model declaration
628 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
629 - Factorize stuff between models:
632 surf_model_resource_set(model)
633 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
634 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
635 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
636 - Rename model methods:
637 action_free ~> action_unref
638 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
639 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
640 - Change model methods into functions :
641 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
643 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
644 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
645 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
646 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
647 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
649 * Improve the action object model
650 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
651 initialization in generic_action part.
653 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
654 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
657 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
658 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
659 => a lot of code was factorized
660 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
661 - simpler API for the context factory
662 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
663 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
664 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
665 and the code is a lot more readable.
668 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
669 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
670 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
673 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
674 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
675 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
676 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
678 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
679 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
682 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
683 Shout out if you used it.
686 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
690 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
691 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
692 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
693 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
694 * Remove the context module
696 Portability report of this version:
697 * Main portability targets:
698 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
699 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
700 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
701 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
702 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
703 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
704 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
706 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
707 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
708 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
709 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
712 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
713 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
714 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
716 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
717 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
719 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
722 Timing report of this version:
723 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
724 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
725 investigating this for next release.
727 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
729 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
732 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
733 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
736 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
737 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
738 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
739 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
740 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
741 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
742 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
743 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
744 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
745 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
746 clean on that point too ;)
747 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
748 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
749 This helps debugging.
750 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
754 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
755 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
756 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
757 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
758 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
759 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
760 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
761 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
762 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
763 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
765 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
766 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
767 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
768 * Bug fixing in failure management:
769 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
770 - failure during communications were not working
773 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
774 process in the log messages.
775 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
776 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
779 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
782 * Massive internal cleanups:
783 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
784 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
786 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
787 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
788 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
789 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
791 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
792 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
793 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
794 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
795 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
798 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
799 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
800 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
803 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
804 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
805 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
806 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
810 Portability report of this version:
811 * Main portability targets:
812 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
813 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
814 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
815 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
816 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
817 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
818 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
821 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
822 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
823 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
824 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
825 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
826 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
829 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
830 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
831 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
833 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
836 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
838 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
842 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
845 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
848 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
849 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
850 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
852 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
853 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
855 **************************************
856 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
857 **************************************
858 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
859 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
860 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
861 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
863 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
864 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
866 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
867 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
868 output match an expected output [Mt].
870 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
871 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
872 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
874 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
875 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
876 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
879 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
880 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
881 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
882 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
883 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
885 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
887 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
888 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
889 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
890 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
893 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
894 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
895 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
896 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
897 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
898 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
899 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
900 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
901 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
903 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
904 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
905 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
906 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
907 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
908 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
910 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
911 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
915 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
916 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
917 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
918 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
919 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
920 was thus designed [AL].
921 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
922 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
924 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
926 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
927 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
928 tested though [Pedro Velho].
931 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
933 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
934 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
935 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
937 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
939 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
943 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
946 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
947 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
948 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
949 you can write (and must)
950 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
951 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
952 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
953 - Impacted functions:
954 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
955 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
956 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
957 (just like the main() function)
959 GRAS new features and improvements:
960 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
961 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
962 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
963 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
965 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
966 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
967 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
968 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
969 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
970 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
971 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
972 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
974 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
975 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
976 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
977 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
978 bytes on quite fat pipes.
981 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
982 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
983 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
984 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
985 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
986 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
989 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
990 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
991 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
994 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
995 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
996 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
997 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
998 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1002 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1003 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1004 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1006 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1007 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1008 and allocating new ones.
1010 Documentation update:
1011 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1012 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1013 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1014 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1015 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1016 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1017 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1018 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1020 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1021 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1023 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1024 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1025 o Part 2: Message passing
1026 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1027 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1028 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1029 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1030 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1031 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1032 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1033 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1034 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1035 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1036 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1037 - A HOWTO section containing:
1038 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1039 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1040 check the examples which are still here.
1042 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1044 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1048 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1049 with these versions. [Vince]
1052 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1053 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1054 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1055 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1056 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1059 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1060 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1061 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1062 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1063 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1064 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1065 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1068 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1069 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1070 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1071 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1072 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1074 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1075 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1078 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1079 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1080 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1081 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1082 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1083 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1084 correctly handled). [AL]
1085 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1089 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1090 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1092 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1093 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1095 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1096 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1098 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1099 within a given period.
1100 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1101 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1102 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1103 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1104 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1108 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1109 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1110 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1111 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1112 * Peer management module:
1113 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1116 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1117 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1118 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1119 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1120 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1121 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1122 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1123 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1124 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1125 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1126 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1127 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1128 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1129 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1130 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1131 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1132 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1134 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1135 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1136 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1138 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1140 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1143 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1144 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1145 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1146 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1147 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1148 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1149 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1150 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1151 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1152 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1153 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1154 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1156 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1157 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1158 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1159 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1160 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1161 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1162 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1165 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1166 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1169 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1170 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1173 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1174 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1175 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1176 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1178 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1179 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1181 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1182 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1183 to be given thru annotations.
1184 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1185 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1187 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1189 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1190 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1193 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1194 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1197 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1198 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1199 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1200 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1202 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1203 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1204 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1205 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1207 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1208 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1209 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1210 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1211 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1212 everything is arrived
1213 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1215 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1217 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1218 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1219 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1220 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1221 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1222 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1225 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1226 doing as few data copy as possible.
1228 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1229 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1230 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1231 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1233 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1235 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1237 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1240 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1241 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1242 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1244 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1246 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1252 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1253 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1254 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1255 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1258 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1259 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1260 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1261 network model) if none was precised.
1264 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1266 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1267 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1268 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1269 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1270 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1271 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1272 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1274 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1275 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1277 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1278 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1280 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1281 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1282 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1283 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1284 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1285 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1287 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1288 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1290 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1292 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1296 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1297 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1300 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1301 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1303 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1306 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1308 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1309 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1312 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1313 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1314 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1315 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1316 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1317 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1318 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1319 in place before [MQ]
1322 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1323 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1324 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1325 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1326 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1327 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1328 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1329 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1330 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1333 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1334 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1337 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1338 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1340 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1341 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1342 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1343 meaning in networking community.
1346 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1347 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1348 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1349 * New module: bandwidth
1350 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1352 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1354 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1356 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1360 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1363 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1366 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1367 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1369 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1370 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1371 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1375 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1376 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1377 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1378 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1379 you need on the simulator.
1383 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1384 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1385 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1386 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1387 needed by MSG examples complications
1388 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1391 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1392 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1393 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1397 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1398 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1399 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1400 (and therefore delayed).
1401 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1402 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1403 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1404 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1405 - move some private declaration to the right place
1406 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1407 - document the module
1408 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1409 * Documentation improvements:
1410 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1411 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1413 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1415 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1417 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1420 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1421 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1425 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1426 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1428 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1429 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1430 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1431 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1432 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1433 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1434 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1435 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1436 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1437 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1440 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1441 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1443 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1446 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1448 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1450 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1454 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1455 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1456 remote compilation helpers.
1458 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1462 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1464 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1466 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1467 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1468 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1469 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1471 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1473 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1475 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1479 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1481 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1482 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1483 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1484 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1485 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1486 to write it in the changelog).
1487 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1492 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1493 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1494 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1496 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1497 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1498 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1499 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1501 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1502 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1503 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1504 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1506 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1507 lookup time (for now).
1508 Use it in msg and trp.
1509 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1510 headers between the gras components.
1511 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1512 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1513 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1515 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1517 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1519 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1521 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1523 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1524 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1525 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1526 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1527 summary of the main changes.
1529 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1530 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1531 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1532 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1533 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1534 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1535 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1536 in the documentation.
1538 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1539 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1540 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1541 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1542 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1543 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1545 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1546 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1547 with the previous version are :
1548 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1549 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1550 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1551 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1552 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1553 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1554 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1555 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1556 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1558 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1559 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1560 dictionaries that are much faster).
1562 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1564 *****************************************************************************
1565 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1566 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1567 *****************************************************************************
1570 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1571 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1572 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1575 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1578 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1579 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1580 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1582 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1583 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1584 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1585 to 'make check' over there yet.
1587 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1588 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1589 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1590 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1591 trees. One day maybe...
1592 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1593 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1594 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1595 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1598 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1599 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1601 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1602 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1603 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1604 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1606 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1607 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1609 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1610 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1611 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1612 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1613 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1614 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1616 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1617 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1618 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1619 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1620 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1621 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1622 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1623 - e_toto_t is an enum
1624 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1626 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1627 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1628 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1629 s_toto_t) is private.
1631 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1632 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1633 it changed for dynars.
1635 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1636 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1638 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1639 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1641 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1643 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1644 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1645 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1647 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1648 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1650 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1651 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1653 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1654 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1655 far more lookup than setting.
1657 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1659 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1660 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1662 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1663 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1664 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1666 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1667 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1669 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1670 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1672 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1673 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1674 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1676 - Header reorganization.
1677 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1679 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1680 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1682 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1683 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1684 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1685 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1686 This simplify the API a lot.
1688 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1689 - Re-enable raw sockets.
1690 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
1691 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
1694 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
1696 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
1697 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
1700 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
1701 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
1704 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
1705 - Finish the port to AIX.
1706 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
1707 function. No idea why)
1709 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
1710 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
1712 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
1713 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
1714 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
1716 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
1718 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
1719 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
1720 - Allow to document the logging categories.
1721 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
1723 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
1724 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
1725 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
1726 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
1727 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
1728 hopefully usefull message.
1729 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
1731 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
1732 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
1733 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
1735 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
1736 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
1737 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
1738 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
1740 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
1741 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1742 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
1743 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
1744 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
1745 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
1746 - search not dichotomial yet
1747 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
1748 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
1749 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
1750 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
1751 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
1752 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
1753 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
1754 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
1755 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
1756 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
1757 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
1759 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
1760 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
1761 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
1764 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
1765 the ID of this type.
1767 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
1768 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
1769 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
1770 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
1771 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
1772 real life and on sg in simulation).
1773 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
1774 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
1775 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
1776 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
1777 that's damn hard in C (at least).
1778 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
1779 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
1780 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
1781 See comment in transport_private.h:71
1782 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
1783 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1786 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1787 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1788 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1789 - shorted the function names:
1790 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1791 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1792 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1793 pop their size of the stack.
1794 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1795 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1796 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1797 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1799 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1800 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1801 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1802 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1804 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1805 - understand it again
1806 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1807 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1808 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1809 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1811 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1812 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1814 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1815 - Some documentation cleanups
1816 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1817 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1818 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1819 gras -> . symbolic link
1820 - make distcheck is now successful
1822 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1824 - Build shared library also
1825 - Install html doc to the right location
1826 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1827 - build tests only on make check
1829 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1831 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1832 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1833 corresponding dataset.
1835 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1837 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
1838 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
1839 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
1840 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
1842 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
1843 [autoconf mechanism]
1844 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
1845 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1846 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1847 Alignment is a serious matter)
1848 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1849 constraints of each types)
1850 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1852 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1853 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1854 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1855 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1856 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1857 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1858 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1860 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1861 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1863 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1864 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1865 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1867 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1868 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1869 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1870 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1871 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1873 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1874 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1875 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1876 generated as first byte.
1877 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1878 architecture descriptions.
1879 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1880 on those architectures.
1881 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1883 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1884 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1886 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1887 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1888 settings will be separated
1889 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1891 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1893 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1894 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1895 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1896 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1898 [gras_stub_generator]
1899 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1901 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1902 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1903 them all up in one shot)
1905 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1906 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1907 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1909 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1910 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1911 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1913 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1914 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1915 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1916 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1917 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1918 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1920 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1922 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1924 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1925 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1928 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1929 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1930 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1932 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1934 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1936 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1938 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1939 - kill a few lines of dead code
1940 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1941 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1942 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1944 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1945 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1947 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1948 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1949 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1951 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1953 - Porting to new standards.
1955 - interface cleanup.
1956 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1957 pointers behind "ID".
1958 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1959 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1960 interleaved, but anyway.
1962 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1964 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1966 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1967 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1968 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1970 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1972 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1974 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1975 - send/receive function.
1976 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1977 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1978 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1979 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1980 - base types: int, float
1981 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1982 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1983 - chained list, graph with cycle
1984 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1985 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1989 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1991 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1993 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1994 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1996 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1998 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1999 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2000 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2002 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2003 (the latter function is removed)
2004 [Conditional execution]
2005 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2006 [Code reorganisation]
2007 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2008 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2009 its creation for now.
2011 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2012 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since