1 SimGrid (3.3.5-svn) unstable; urgency=low
3 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
4 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
5 Use send/receive instead.
6 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
7 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
8 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
9 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
10 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
11 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
12 Ruby Bindings: create it
13 * That's new and great, you should try it out.
14 Kinda the same functionalities than Java bindings
16 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
17 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
18 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
19 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
20 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
21 such thing for that specific task.
23 * In trace replay, allow to have one trace file per process.
24 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
25 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
26 You can still have one merged file for each processes.
27 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
29 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
32 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
34 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
37 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
38 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
39 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
40 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
41 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
42 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
43 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
44 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
45 actions on SURF kernel.
46 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
47 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
48 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
49 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
50 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
51 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
52 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
53 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
54 availability trace files.
55 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
56 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
57 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
58 faster than the old CPU models.
59 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
60 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
61 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
62 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
65 ******************************************
66 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
67 ******************************************
68 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
69 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
70 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
71 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
72 of simulations in some cases.
73 * The new network model will change simulations!
74 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
75 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
76 Sorry for the inconvenience.
79 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
80 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
81 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
82 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
84 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
85 amd64 to confirm that gain.
88 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
89 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
92 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
93 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
94 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
95 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
96 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
97 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
98 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
101 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
102 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
103 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
104 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
105 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
106 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
107 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
108 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
109 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
110 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
111 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
112 about the task in dotty format
113 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
114 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
116 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
117 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
118 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
119 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
120 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
121 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
122 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
125 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
128 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
129 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
130 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
131 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
132 thread (used in SG only for now)
133 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
136 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
137 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
138 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
139 the comm should be done.
140 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
141 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
142 use the private link instead)
143 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
144 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
145 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
146 to make it less stupid
147 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
148 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
149 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
150 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
151 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
152 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
153 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
154 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
155 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
156 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
157 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
158 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
159 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
161 Portability report of this version:
162 * Main portability targets:
163 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
165 - mac leopard on i386
166 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
167 but nothing critical.
168 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
170 Timing report of this version:
171 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
172 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
173 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
175 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
177 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
179 The "Need for Speed" release.
181 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
182 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
184 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
185 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
186 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
188 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
189 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
191 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
192 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
193 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
194 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
195 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
196 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
198 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
199 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
200 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
201 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
202 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
204 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
205 alone. We have to choose between:
206 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
207 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
208 - live with low performance
209 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
211 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
213 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
215 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
217 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
218 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
221 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
222 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
223 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
224 => kill now useless network_card concept
225 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
226 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
227 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
228 - Add three new models:
229 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
230 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
231 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
232 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
233 described in his ICCS09 paper.
235 * Simplify model declaration
236 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
237 - Factorize stuff between models:
240 surf_model_resource_set(model)
241 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
242 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
243 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
244 - Rename model methods:
245 action_free ~> action_unref
246 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
247 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
248 - Change model methods into functions :
249 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
251 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
252 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
253 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
254 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
255 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
257 * Improve the action object model
258 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
259 initialization in generic_action part.
261 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
262 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
265 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
266 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
267 => a lot of code was factorized
268 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
269 - simpler API for the context factory
270 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
271 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
272 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
273 and the code is a lot more readable.
276 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
277 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
278 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
281 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
282 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
283 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
284 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
286 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
287 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
290 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
291 Shout out if you used it.
294 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
298 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
299 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
300 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
301 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
302 * Remove the context module
304 Portability report of this version:
305 * Main portability targets:
306 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
307 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
308 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
309 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
310 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
311 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
312 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
314 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
315 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
316 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
317 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
320 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
321 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
322 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
324 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
325 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
327 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
330 Timing report of this version:
331 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
332 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
333 investigating this for next release.
335 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
337 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
340 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
341 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
344 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
345 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
346 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
347 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
348 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
349 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
350 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
351 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
352 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
353 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
354 clean on that point too ;)
355 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
356 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
357 This helps debugging.
358 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
362 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
363 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
364 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
365 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
366 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
367 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
368 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
369 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
370 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
371 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
373 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
374 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
375 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
376 * Bug fixing in failure management:
377 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
378 - failure during communications were not working
381 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
382 process in the log messages.
383 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
384 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
387 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
390 * Massive internal cleanups:
391 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
392 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
394 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
395 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
396 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
397 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
399 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
400 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
401 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
402 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
403 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
406 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
407 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
408 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
411 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
412 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
413 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
414 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
418 Portability report of this version:
419 * Main portability targets:
420 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
421 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
422 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
423 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
424 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
425 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
426 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
429 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
430 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
431 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
432 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
433 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
434 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
437 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
438 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
439 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
441 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
444 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
446 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
450 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
453 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
456 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
457 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
458 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
460 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
461 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
463 **************************************
464 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
465 **************************************
466 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
467 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
468 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
469 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
471 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
472 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
474 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
475 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
476 output match an expected output [Mt].
478 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
479 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
480 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
482 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
483 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
484 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
487 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
488 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
489 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
490 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
491 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
493 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
495 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
496 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
497 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
498 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
501 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
502 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
503 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
504 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
505 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
506 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
507 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
508 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
509 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
511 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
512 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
513 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
514 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
515 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
516 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
518 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
519 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
523 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
524 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
525 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
526 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
527 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
528 was thus designed [AL].
529 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
530 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
532 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
534 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
535 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
536 tested though [Pedro Velho].
539 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
541 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
542 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
543 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
545 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
547 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
551 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
554 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
555 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
556 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
557 you can write (and must)
558 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
559 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
560 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
561 - Impacted functions:
562 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
563 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
564 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
565 (just like the main() function)
567 GRAS new features and improvements:
568 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
569 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
570 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
571 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
573 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
574 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
575 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
576 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
577 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
578 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
579 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
580 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
582 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
583 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
584 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
585 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
586 bytes on quite fat pipes.
589 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
590 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
591 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
592 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
593 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
594 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
597 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
598 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
599 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
602 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
603 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
604 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
605 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
606 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
610 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
611 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
612 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
614 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
615 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
616 and allocating new ones.
618 Documentation update:
619 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
620 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
621 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
622 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
623 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
624 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
625 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
628 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
629 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
631 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
632 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
633 o Part 2: Message passing
634 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
635 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
636 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
637 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
638 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
639 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
640 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
641 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
642 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
643 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
644 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
645 - A HOWTO section containing:
646 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
647 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
648 check the examples which are still here.
650 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
652 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
656 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
657 with these versions. [Vince]
660 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
661 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
662 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
663 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
664 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
667 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
668 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
669 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
670 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
671 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
672 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
673 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
676 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
677 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
678 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
679 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
680 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
682 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
683 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
686 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
687 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
688 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
689 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
690 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
691 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
692 correctly handled). [AL]
693 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
697 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
698 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
700 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
701 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
703 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
704 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
706 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
707 within a given period.
708 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
709 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
710 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
711 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
712 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
716 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
717 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
718 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
719 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
720 * Peer management module:
721 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
724 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
725 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
726 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
727 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
728 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
729 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
730 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
731 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
732 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
733 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
734 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
735 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
736 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
737 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
738 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
739 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
740 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
742 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
743 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
744 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
746 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
748 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
751 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
752 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
753 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
754 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
755 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
756 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
757 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
758 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
759 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
760 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
761 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
762 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
764 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
765 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
766 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
767 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
768 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
769 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
770 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
773 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
774 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
777 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
778 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
781 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
782 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
783 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
784 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
786 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
787 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
789 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
790 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
791 to be given thru annotations.
792 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
793 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
795 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
797 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
798 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
801 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
802 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
805 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
806 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
807 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
808 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
810 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
811 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
812 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
813 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
815 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
816 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
817 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
818 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
819 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
820 everything is arrived
821 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
823 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
825 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
826 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
827 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
828 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
829 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
830 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
833 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
834 doing as few data copy as possible.
836 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
837 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
838 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
839 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
841 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
843 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
845 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
848 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
849 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
850 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
852 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
854 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
859 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
860 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
861 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
862 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
863 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
866 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
867 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
868 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
869 network model) if none was precised.
872 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
874 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
875 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
876 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
877 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
878 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
879 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
880 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
882 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
883 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
885 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
886 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
888 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
889 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
890 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
891 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
892 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
893 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
895 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
896 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
898 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
900 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
904 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
905 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
908 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
909 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
911 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
914 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
916 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
917 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
920 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
921 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
922 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
923 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
924 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
925 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
926 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
930 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
931 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
932 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
933 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
934 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
935 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
936 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
937 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
938 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
941 GRAS (minor cleanups)
942 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
945 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
946 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
948 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
949 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
950 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
951 meaning in networking community.
954 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
955 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
956 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
957 * New module: bandwidth
958 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
960 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
962 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
964 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
968 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
971 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
974 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
975 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
977 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
978 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
979 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
983 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
984 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
985 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
986 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
987 you need on the simulator.
991 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
992 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
993 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
994 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
995 needed by MSG examples complications
996 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
999 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1000 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1001 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1005 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1006 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1007 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1008 (and therefore delayed).
1009 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1010 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1011 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1012 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1013 - move some private declaration to the right place
1014 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1015 - document the module
1016 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1017 * Documentation improvements:
1018 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1019 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1021 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1023 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1025 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1028 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1029 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1033 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1034 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1036 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1037 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1038 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1039 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1040 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1041 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1042 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1043 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1044 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1045 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1048 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1049 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1051 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1054 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1056 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1058 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1062 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1063 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1064 remote compilation helpers.
1066 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1070 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1072 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1074 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1075 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1076 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1077 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1079 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1081 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1083 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1087 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1089 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1090 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1091 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1092 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1093 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1094 to write it in the changelog).
1095 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1100 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1101 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1102 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1104 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1105 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1106 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1107 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1109 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1110 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1111 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1112 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1114 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1115 lookup time (for now).
1116 Use it in msg and trp.
1117 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1118 headers between the gras components.
1119 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1120 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1121 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1123 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1125 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1127 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1129 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1131 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1132 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1133 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1134 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1135 summary of the main changes.
1137 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1138 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1139 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1140 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1141 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1142 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1143 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1144 in the documentation.
1146 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1147 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1148 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1149 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1150 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1151 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1153 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1154 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1155 with the previous version are :
1156 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1157 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1158 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1159 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1160 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1161 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1162 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1163 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1164 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1166 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1167 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1168 dictionaries that are much faster).
1170 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1172 *****************************************************************************
1173 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1174 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1175 *****************************************************************************
1178 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1179 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1180 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1183 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1186 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1187 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1188 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1190 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1191 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1192 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1193 to 'make check' over there yet.
1195 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1196 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1197 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1198 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1199 trees. One day maybe...
1200 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1201 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1202 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1203 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1206 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1207 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1209 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1210 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1211 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1212 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1214 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1215 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1217 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1218 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1219 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1220 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1221 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1222 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1224 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1225 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1226 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1227 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1228 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1229 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1230 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1231 - e_toto_t is an enum
1232 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1234 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1235 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1236 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1237 s_toto_t) is private.
1239 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1240 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1241 it changed for dynars.
1243 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1244 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1246 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1247 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1249 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1251 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1252 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1253 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1255 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1256 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1258 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1259 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1261 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1262 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1263 far more lookup than setting.
1265 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1267 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1268 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1270 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1271 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1272 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1274 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1275 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1277 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1278 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1280 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1281 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1282 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1284 - Header reorganization.
1285 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1287 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1288 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1290 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1291 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1292 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1293 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1294 This simplify the API a lot.
1296 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1297 - Re-enable raw sockets.
1298 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
1299 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
1302 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
1304 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
1305 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
1308 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
1309 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
1312 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
1313 - Finish the port to AIX.
1314 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
1315 function. No idea why)
1317 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
1318 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
1320 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
1321 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
1322 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
1324 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
1326 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
1327 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
1328 - Allow to document the logging categories.
1329 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
1331 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
1332 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
1333 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
1334 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
1335 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
1336 hopefully usefull message.
1337 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
1339 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
1340 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
1341 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
1343 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
1344 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
1345 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
1346 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
1348 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
1349 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1350 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
1351 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
1352 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
1353 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
1354 - search not dichotomial yet
1355 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
1356 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
1357 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
1358 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
1359 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
1360 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
1361 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
1362 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
1363 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
1364 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
1365 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
1367 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
1368 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
1369 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
1372 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
1373 the ID of this type.
1375 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
1376 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
1377 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
1378 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
1379 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
1380 real life and on sg in simulation).
1381 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
1382 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
1383 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
1384 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
1385 that's damn hard in C (at least).
1386 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
1387 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
1388 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
1389 See comment in transport_private.h:71
1390 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
1391 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
1394 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
1395 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
1396 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
1397 - shorted the function names:
1398 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
1399 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
1400 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
1401 pop their size of the stack.
1402 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
1403 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
1404 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
1405 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
1407 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
1408 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
1409 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
1410 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
1412 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
1413 - understand it again
1414 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
1415 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
1416 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
1417 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
1419 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
1420 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
1422 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
1423 - Some documentation cleanups
1424 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
1425 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
1426 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
1427 gras -> . symbolic link
1428 - make distcheck is now successful
1430 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
1432 - Build shared library also
1433 - Install html doc to the right location
1434 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
1435 - build tests only on make check
1437 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
1439 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
1440 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
1441 corresponding dataset.
1443 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
1445 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
1446 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
1447 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
1448 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
1450 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
1451 [autoconf mechanism]
1452 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
1453 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
1454 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
1455 Alignment is a serious matter)
1456 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
1457 constraints of each types)
1458 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
1460 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
1461 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
1462 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
1463 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
1464 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
1465 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
1466 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
1468 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
1469 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
1471 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
1472 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
1473 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
1475 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
1476 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
1477 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
1478 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
1479 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
1481 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
1482 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
1483 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
1484 generated as first byte.
1485 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
1486 architecture descriptions.
1487 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
1488 on those architectures.
1489 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
1491 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
1492 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
1494 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
1495 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
1496 settings will be separated
1497 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
1499 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
1501 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
1502 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
1503 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
1504 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
1506 [gras_stub_generator]
1507 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
1509 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
1510 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
1511 them all up in one shot)
1513 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
1514 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
1515 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
1517 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
1518 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
1519 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
1521 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
1522 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
1523 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
1524 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
1525 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
1526 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
1528 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
1530 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
1532 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
1533 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
1536 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
1537 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
1538 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
1540 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
1542 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
1544 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
1546 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
1547 - kill a few lines of dead code
1548 [Data description] Interface cleanup
1549 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
1550 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
1552 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
1553 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
1555 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
1556 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
1557 This is consistant with the dynar API.
1559 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
1561 - Porting to new standards.
1563 - interface cleanup.
1564 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
1565 pointers behind "ID".
1566 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
1567 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
1568 interleaved, but anyway.
1570 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
1572 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
1574 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
1575 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
1576 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
1578 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
1580 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
1582 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
1583 - send/receive function.
1584 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
1585 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
1586 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
1587 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
1588 - base types: int, float
1589 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
1590 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
1591 - chained list, graph with cycle
1592 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
1593 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
1597 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
1599 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
1601 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
1602 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
1604 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
1606 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
1607 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
1608 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
1610 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
1611 (the latter function is removed)
1612 [Conditional execution]
1613 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
1614 [Code reorganisation]
1615 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
1616 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
1617 its creation for now.
1619 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
1620 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since