1 SimGrid (3.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
5 - The option smpi/async_small_thres was renamed to smpi/async_small_thresh
6 as we attempt to unify our naming schemes -> smpi/send_is_detached_thresh
10 * Kill the setset datacontainer: it's unused since a while.
12 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
14 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
19 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
20 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
21 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
22 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
23 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
24 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
25 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
26 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
27 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
28 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
29 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
30 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
31 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
32 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
35 * Interface improvement:
36 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
37 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
38 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
39 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
40 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
41 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
42 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
43 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
44 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
45 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
47 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
49 * Interface improvement:
50 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
51 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
52 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
53 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
55 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
59 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
60 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
61 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
62 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
63 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
64 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
66 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
67 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
68 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
69 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
70 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
71 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
73 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
77 - Onesided early support for : MPI_Win_(create, free, fence, get_name, set_name, get_group), MPI_Get, MPI_Put, MPI_Accumulate, MPI_Alloc_mem, MPI_Free_mem.
78 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
79 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
80 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
81 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
82 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
83 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
85 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
86 - InfiniBand network model added : Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
87 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
88 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
89 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
90 * Collective communications
91 - SMP-aware algorithms are now dynamically handled. An internal communicator is created for each node, and an external one to handle communications between "leaders" of each node
92 - MVAPICH2 (1.9) collective algorithms selector : normal and SMP algorithms are handled, and selection logic is based on the one used on TACC's Stampede cluster (https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede/).
93 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
95 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
96 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
97 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
98 - Replay can now replay several traces at the same time (check examples/smpi/replay_multiple example), to simulate interactions between several applications on a given platform. User can specify the start time of each instance. This should also allow replay + actual applications to run.
100 - [#17799] : have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
101 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
102 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
103 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
104 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
105 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
108 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
109 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
110 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
111 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
112 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
113 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
114 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
115 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
116 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
117 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
118 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
119 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
120 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
121 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
124 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
125 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
126 - Add two new log appenders : rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
127 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
129 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
130 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
131 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
132 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
134 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
136 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
141 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
144 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
145 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
146 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
147 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
148 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
149 * Add java surf examples:
150 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
151 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
152 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
153 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
154 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
159 - msg task destroy cancel test
160 - msg_host on/off test
161 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
162 * Restructure teshsuites
163 - one folder for each kind of test
164 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
166 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
169 * Add virtual machine
170 - creation of a VM on a PM
171 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
173 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
174 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
175 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
176 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
177 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
178 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
181 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
183 - Increase code coverage in test suites
187 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
188 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
189 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
190 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
191 - generates files included by SimGrid
192 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
194 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
195 host_set_data, host_get_data
197 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
198 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
201 * Translate surf models from C to C++
202 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
203 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
204 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
206 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
207 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
208 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
209 - Add callback functions for action state change
210 - Handle Energy as a plugin
211 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
212 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
213 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
214 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
215 parameters for cluster tag
216 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
217 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
218 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
219 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
223 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
225 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
226 improper number of nodes and report the error.
227 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies : MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
228 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
229 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
230 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
231 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave) :
232 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
236 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
237 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
238 Limitations : Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
239 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
240 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
243 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
246 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
247 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
248 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
249 are kept installed elsewhere.
250 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
251 - plugin to handle callbacks
252 - CPU model only for the moment
255 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
256 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
257 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
258 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
259 * Add boost dependency for surf++
260 * Add new macro for tests
261 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
262 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
266 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
267 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
268 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
269 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
271 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
273 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
275 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
278 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
279 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
280 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
281 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
282 cached in the Java world
285 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
286 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
287 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
288 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
289 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
292 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
293 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
294 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
295 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
296 in the original application.
297 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
298 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
299 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
301 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
302 - Gatherv collective is now supported
303 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
304 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
305 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
306 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
307 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
308 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
309 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
310 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
311 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
312 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
313 * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
315 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
316 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
317 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
318 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
320 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
321 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
322 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
323 (no privatization of global variables yet)
324 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
327 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
328 (in addition to MSG applications)
329 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
330 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
331 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
332 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
333 DPOR for safety properties.
336 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
337 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
338 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
341 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
342 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
343 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
344 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
345 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
346 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
347 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
348 router but this is transparent.
351 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
352 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
353 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
354 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
355 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
356 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
357 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
358 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
359 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
360 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
363 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
364 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
365 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
366 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
368 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
371 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
373 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
375 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
377 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
380 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
381 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
382 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
383 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
384 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
385 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
386 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
387 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
388 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
391 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
392 splitting it was really not helping our users.
393 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
394 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
395 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
398 * Now works on Windows too!
399 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
402 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
403 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
404 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
405 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
406 a control dependency.
407 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
408 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
412 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
413 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
414 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
415 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
419 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
420 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
421 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
422 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
423 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
424 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
425 trace is not at time 0.
428 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
429 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
433 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
434 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
436 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
437 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
440 * Fix the lua deployment:
441 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
442 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
445 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
447 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
449 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
451 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
454 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
456 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
458 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
460 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
463 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
464 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
465 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
466 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
467 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
468 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
469 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
470 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
471 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
472 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
473 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
475 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
476 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
477 points in the library helps us).
478 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
479 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
480 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
483 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
484 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
487 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
488 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
490 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
491 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
492 purpose ("on" by default).
495 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
496 survive the host they are running onto.
497 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
498 executing comes back.
499 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
500 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
503 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
504 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
506 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
507 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
508 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
509 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
510 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
511 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
512 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
514 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
515 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
516 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
517 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
519 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
520 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
521 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
522 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
524 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
525 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
526 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
527 (from their beginning)
528 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
532 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
533 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
534 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
535 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
536 hindexed and structs)
537 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
538 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
539 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
540 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
541 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
542 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
543 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
544 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
547 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
548 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
549 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
550 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
551 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
552 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
556 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
557 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
558 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
559 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
560 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
561 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
562 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
565 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
566 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
567 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
568 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
569 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
571 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
573 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
576 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
577 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
578 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
581 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
584 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
585 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
586 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
589 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
592 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
593 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
594 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
595 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
597 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
598 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
599 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
600 feature, any help would be really welcome.
602 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
604 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
606 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
609 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
610 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
611 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
612 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
613 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
614 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
615 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
616 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
617 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
618 Accuracy should be improved this way.
619 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
620 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
621 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
622 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
623 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
624 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
625 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
626 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
627 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
628 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
629 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
630 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
631 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
632 network/coordinates, and document it
633 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
634 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
635 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
636 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
637 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
640 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
641 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
642 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
643 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
644 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
645 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
646 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
647 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
648 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
649 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
650 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
651 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
654 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
655 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
656 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
657 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
658 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
659 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
660 execution mode (raw contexts only)
661 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
662 synchronization structures.
663 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
664 in very specific conditions.
667 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
668 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
669 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
670 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
671 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
672 This is released anyway because YMMV.
675 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
676 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
680 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
683 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
684 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
685 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
686 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
687 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
688 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
689 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
690 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
691 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
692 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
693 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
694 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
695 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
696 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
697 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
698 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
701 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
702 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
703 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
704 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
705 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
708 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
709 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
710 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
714 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
715 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
717 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
718 don't exists anymore.
719 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
721 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
722 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
723 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
724 deprecated in the next release.
725 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
726 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
728 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
729 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
730 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
731 element is not found.
733 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
734 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
736 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
737 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
738 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
739 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
740 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
741 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
742 necessary at this point to get MC working.
744 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
745 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
747 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
749 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
751 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
754 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
755 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
756 (portable) ones when possible.
757 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
758 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
759 * Update the XML platforms:
760 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
761 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
762 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
764 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
765 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
766 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
768 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
769 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
772 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
773 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
774 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
775 its compilation burden
776 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
777 * Port to Windows 64 bits
778 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
779 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
780 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
781 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
782 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
783 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
786 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
788 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
790 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
793 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
794 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
795 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
796 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
797 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
800 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
802 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
804 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
806 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
809 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
810 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
811 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
813 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
814 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
816 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
817 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
818 but it may soon become the case.
821 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
822 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
823 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
824 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
825 local static variables.
826 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
830 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
831 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
832 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
834 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
835 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
836 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
837 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
839 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
840 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
841 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
842 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
843 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
844 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
845 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
846 index of a finished communication (if any).
847 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
850 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
851 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
852 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
853 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
855 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
856 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
857 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
858 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
859 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
860 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
861 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
862 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
865 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
867 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
868 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
869 do the work in an efficient manner.
870 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
871 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
872 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
873 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
874 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
875 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
876 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
877 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
878 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
879 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
881 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
885 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
886 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
887 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
888 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
889 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
890 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
891 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
892 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
893 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
894 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
895 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
896 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
898 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
899 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
903 * New configuration options
904 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
905 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
906 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
907 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
908 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
909 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
910 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
912 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
913 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
914 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
915 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
916 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
917 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
918 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
919 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
920 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
922 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
923 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
924 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
925 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
926 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
927 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
928 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
931 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
932 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
933 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
934 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
935 could rely on that macro to adapt.
936 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
937 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
938 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
939 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
940 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
942 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
944 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
947 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
948 Check SIN#1 for more details.
951 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
952 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
953 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
954 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
955 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
956 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
957 * See also src/smpi/README
962 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
963 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
964 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
965 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
966 same for MSG and SimDag.
967 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
969 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
970 where color must be in the following format
971 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
972 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
973 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
975 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
976 - The following command-line options are supported:
977 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
978 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
979 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
980 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
981 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
982 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
983 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
984 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
985 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
986 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
988 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
989 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
990 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
991 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
992 - Collective operations are traced with states
993 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
994 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
995 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
996 is compiled with tracing enabled)
997 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
998 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
999 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
1000 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
1001 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
1002 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
1003 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
1004 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
1007 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
1008 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
1009 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
1010 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
1011 * New function: MSG_set_function
1012 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
1013 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
1015 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
1016 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
1017 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
1020 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
1021 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
1022 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
1023 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
1024 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
1025 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
1026 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
1027 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
1028 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
1029 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
1030 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
1031 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
1033 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
1034 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
1035 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
1036 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
1037 you want to use this routing scheme.
1038 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
1039 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
1040 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
1041 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
1042 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
1043 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
1044 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
1045 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
1046 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
1047 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
1049 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
1050 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
1051 results when exchanging small messages.
1052 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
1053 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
1054 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
1057 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
1058 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
1059 dependencies are satisfied) state.
1060 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
1061 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
1062 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
1063 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
1064 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
1065 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
1066 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
1067 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
1068 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
1069 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
1070 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
1071 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
1072 installation of the graphviz library.
1073 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
1074 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
1075 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
1076 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
1077 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
1078 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
1079 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
1080 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
1081 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
1082 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
1083 using a Min-Min strategy.
1084 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
1085 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
1087 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
1088 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
1091 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
1092 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
1093 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
1094 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
1095 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
1096 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
1097 Please use (proper) visualization instead
1100 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
1101 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
1102 independent segments of malloc)
1103 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
1104 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
1105 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
1106 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
1107 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
1108 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
1109 uninitialized areas during expand.
1110 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
1111 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
1112 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
1113 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
1114 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
1117 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
1118 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
1119 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
1120 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
1121 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
1122 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
1123 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
1124 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
1126 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
1127 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
1128 * Port to windows ( TM :)
1129 * Fix the 'make install' target.
1130 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
1131 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
1132 'make package' compiles a binary archive
1133 * Compile java files only on need
1134 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
1135 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
1136 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
1139 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
1140 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
1141 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
1143 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1145 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
1147 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
1148 This is a bug fixes release only.
1152 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
1155 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
1156 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
1157 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
1160 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
1161 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
1164 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
1165 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
1166 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
1168 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
1170 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
1172 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
1174 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
1175 ~> bindings were greatly improved
1176 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
1178 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
1179 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
1182 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
1184 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
1185 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
1186 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
1187 Use send/receive instead.
1188 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
1189 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
1190 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
1191 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
1192 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
1193 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
1194 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
1195 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
1196 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
1197 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
1198 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
1199 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
1200 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
1201 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
1203 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
1204 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
1205 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
1206 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
1207 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
1208 such thing for that specific task.
1209 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
1210 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
1211 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
1212 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
1213 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
1215 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
1216 the deprecated put/get interface.
1217 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
1218 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
1220 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
1221 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
1222 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
1223 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
1225 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
1226 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
1227 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
1228 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
1229 - Fix implementation of collective operations
1230 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
1232 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
1233 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
1234 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
1235 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
1236 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
1238 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
1240 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
1241 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
1242 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
1243 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
1244 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
1245 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
1246 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
1247 * Bug fixes include:
1248 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
1249 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
1250 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
1251 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
1252 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
1254 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
1255 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
1256 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
1257 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
1258 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
1259 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
1261 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
1262 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
1263 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
1264 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
1265 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
1266 * Refactoring context stuff:
1267 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
1268 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
1269 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
1271 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
1273 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
1274 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
1275 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
1276 o network_model -> network/model
1277 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
1278 * New configuration variables:
1279 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
1280 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
1281 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
1282 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
1283 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
1284 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
1286 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
1287 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
1288 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
1289 When so, you need to use the following functions
1290 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
1291 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1292 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1293 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
1294 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
1296 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
1297 Tracing for Visualization:
1298 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
1299 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
1300 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
1301 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
1302 (among other functions).
1303 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
1304 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
1305 traces with the Triva tool is written.
1306 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
1309 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
1310 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
1311 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
1312 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1313 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
1314 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
1315 * Added code coverage tests.
1316 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
1318 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
1320 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
1322 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
1324 Models improvements:
1325 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
1326 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
1327 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
1328 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
1329 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
1330 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
1331 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
1332 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
1333 actions on SURF kernel.
1334 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
1335 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
1336 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
1337 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
1338 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
1339 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
1340 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
1341 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
1342 availability trace files.
1343 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
1344 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
1345 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
1346 faster than the old CPU models.
1347 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
1348 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
1349 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
1350 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
1353 ******************************************
1354 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
1355 ******************************************
1356 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
1357 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
1358 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
1359 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
1360 of simulations in some cases.
1361 * The new network model will change simulations!
1362 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
1363 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
1364 Sorry for the inconvenience.
1367 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
1368 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
1369 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
1370 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
1372 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
1373 amd64 to confirm that gain.
1376 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
1377 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
1380 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
1381 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
1382 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
1383 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
1384 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
1385 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
1386 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
1389 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
1390 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
1391 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
1392 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
1393 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
1394 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
1395 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
1396 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
1397 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
1398 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
1399 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
1400 about the task in dotty format
1401 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
1402 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
1404 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
1405 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
1406 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
1407 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
1408 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
1409 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
1410 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
1413 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
1416 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
1417 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
1418 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
1419 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
1420 thread (used in SG only for now)
1421 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
1424 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
1425 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
1426 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
1427 the comm should be done.
1428 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
1429 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
1430 use the private link instead)
1431 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
1432 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
1433 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
1434 to make it less stupid
1435 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
1436 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
1437 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
1438 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
1439 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1440 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1441 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1442 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1443 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1444 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1445 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1446 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1447 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1449 Portability report of this version:
1450 * Main portability targets:
1451 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1452 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1453 - mac leopard on i386
1454 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1455 but nothing critical.
1456 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1458 Timing report of this version:
1459 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1460 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1461 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1463 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1465 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1467 The "Need for Speed" release.
1469 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1470 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1472 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1473 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1474 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1476 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1477 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1479 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1480 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1481 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1482 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1483 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1484 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1486 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1487 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1488 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1489 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1490 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1492 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1493 alone. We have to choose between:
1494 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1495 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1496 - live with low performance
1497 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1499 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1501 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1503 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1505 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1506 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1509 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1510 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1511 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1512 => kill now useless network_card concept
1513 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1514 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1515 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1516 - Add three new models:
1517 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1518 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1519 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1520 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1521 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1523 * Simplify model declaration
1524 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1525 - Factorize stuff between models:
1528 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1529 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1530 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1531 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1532 - Rename model methods:
1533 action_free ~> action_unref
1534 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1535 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1536 - Change model methods into functions :
1537 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1539 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1540 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1541 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1542 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1543 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1545 * Improve the action object model
1546 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1547 initialization in generic_action part.
1549 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1550 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1553 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1554 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1555 => a lot of code was factorized
1556 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1557 - simpler API for the context factory
1558 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1559 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1560 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1561 and the code is a lot more readable.
1564 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1565 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1566 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1567 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1569 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1570 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1571 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1572 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1574 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1575 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1578 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1579 Shout out if you used it.
1582 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1586 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1587 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1588 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1589 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1590 * Remove the context module
1592 Portability report of this version:
1593 * Main portability targets:
1594 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1595 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1596 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1597 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1598 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1599 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1600 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1602 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1603 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1604 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1605 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1608 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1609 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1610 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1612 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1613 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1615 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1618 Timing report of this version:
1619 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1620 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1621 investigating this for next release.
1623 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1625 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1628 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1629 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1632 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1633 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1634 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1635 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1636 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1637 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1638 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1639 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1640 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1641 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1642 clean on that point too ;)
1643 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1644 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1645 This helps debugging.
1646 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1650 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1651 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1652 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1653 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1654 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1655 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1656 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1657 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1658 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1659 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1661 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1662 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1663 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1664 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1665 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1666 - failure during communications were not working
1669 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1670 process in the log messages.
1671 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1672 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1675 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1678 * Massive internal cleanups:
1679 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1680 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1682 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1683 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1684 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1685 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1687 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1688 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1689 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1690 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1691 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1694 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1695 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1696 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1699 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1700 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1701 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1702 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1706 Portability report of this version:
1707 * Main portability targets:
1708 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1709 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1710 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1711 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1712 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1713 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1714 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1717 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1718 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1719 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1720 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1721 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1722 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1725 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1726 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1727 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1729 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1732 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1734 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1738 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1739 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1741 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1744 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1745 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1746 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1748 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1749 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1751 **************************************
1752 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1753 **************************************
1754 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1755 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1756 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1757 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1759 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1760 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1762 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1763 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1764 output match an expected output [Mt].
1766 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1767 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1768 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1770 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1771 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1772 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1775 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1776 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1777 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1778 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1779 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1781 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1782 linux ones too) [Mt]
1783 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1784 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1785 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1786 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1789 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1790 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1791 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1792 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1793 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1794 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1795 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1796 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1797 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1799 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1800 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1801 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1802 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1803 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1804 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1806 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1807 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1808 root directly) [Mt].
1811 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1812 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1813 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1814 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1815 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1816 was thus designed [AL].
1817 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1818 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1820 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1822 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1823 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1824 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1827 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1829 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1830 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1831 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1833 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1835 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1839 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1840 least MSG is usable.
1842 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1843 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1844 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1845 you can write (and must)
1846 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1847 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1848 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1849 - Impacted functions:
1850 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1851 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1852 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1853 (just like the main() function)
1855 GRAS new features and improvements:
1856 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1857 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1858 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1859 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1861 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1862 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1863 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1864 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1865 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1866 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1867 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1868 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1869 No big deal usually.
1870 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1871 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1872 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1873 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1874 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1877 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1878 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1879 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1880 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1881 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1882 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1885 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1886 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1887 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1890 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1891 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1892 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1893 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1894 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1898 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1899 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1900 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1902 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1903 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1904 and allocating new ones.
1906 Documentation update:
1907 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1908 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1909 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1910 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1911 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1912 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1913 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1914 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1916 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1917 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1919 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1920 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1921 o Part 2: Message passing
1922 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1923 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1924 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1925 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1926 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1927 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1928 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1929 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1930 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1931 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1932 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1933 - A HOWTO section containing:
1934 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1935 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1936 check the examples which are still here.
1938 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1940 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1944 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1945 with these versions. [Vince]
1948 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1949 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1950 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1951 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1952 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1955 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1956 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1957 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1958 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1959 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1960 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1961 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1964 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1965 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1966 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1967 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1968 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1970 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1971 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1974 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1975 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1976 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1977 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1978 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1979 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1980 correctly handled). [AL]
1981 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1985 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1986 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1988 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1989 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1991 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1992 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1994 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1995 within a given period.
1996 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1997 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1998 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1999 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
2000 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
2004 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
2005 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
2006 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
2007 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
2008 * Peer management module:
2009 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
2012 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
2013 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
2014 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
2015 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
2016 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
2017 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
2018 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
2019 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
2020 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
2021 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
2022 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
2023 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
2024 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
2025 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
2026 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
2027 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
2028 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
2030 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
2031 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
2032 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
2034 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
2036 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
2039 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
2040 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
2041 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2042 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
2043 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2044 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2045 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
2046 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
2047 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2048 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
2049 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2050 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2052 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
2053 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
2054 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
2055 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
2056 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
2057 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
2058 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
2061 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
2062 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
2065 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
2066 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
2069 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
2070 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
2071 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
2072 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
2074 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
2075 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
2077 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
2078 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
2079 to be given thru annotations.
2080 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
2081 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
2083 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
2085 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
2086 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
2089 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
2090 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
2093 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
2094 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
2095 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
2096 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
2098 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
2099 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
2100 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
2101 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
2103 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
2104 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
2105 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
2106 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
2107 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
2108 everything is arrived
2109 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
2111 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
2113 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
2114 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
2115 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
2116 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
2117 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
2118 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
2121 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
2122 doing as few data copy as possible.
2124 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
2125 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
2126 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
2127 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
2129 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
2131 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
2133 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
2136 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
2137 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
2138 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
2140 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
2142 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
2148 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
2149 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
2150 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
2151 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
2154 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
2155 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
2156 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
2157 network model) if none was precised.
2160 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
2162 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
2163 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
2164 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
2165 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
2166 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
2167 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
2168 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
2170 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
2171 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
2173 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
2174 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
2176 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
2177 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
2178 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
2179 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
2180 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
2181 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
2183 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
2184 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
2186 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
2188 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
2192 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
2193 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
2196 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
2197 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
2199 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
2202 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
2204 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
2205 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
2208 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
2209 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
2210 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
2211 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
2212 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
2213 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
2214 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
2215 in place before [MQ]
2218 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
2219 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
2220 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
2221 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
2222 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
2223 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
2224 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
2225 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
2226 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
2229 GRAS (minor cleanups)
2230 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
2233 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
2234 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
2236 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
2237 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
2238 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
2239 meaning in networking community.
2242 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
2243 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
2244 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
2245 * New module: bandwidth
2246 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
2248 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
2250 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
2252 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
2256 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
2259 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
2262 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
2263 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
2265 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
2266 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
2267 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
2271 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
2272 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
2273 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
2274 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
2275 you need on the simulator.
2279 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
2280 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
2281 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
2282 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
2283 needed by MSG examples complications
2284 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
2287 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
2288 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
2289 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
2293 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
2294 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
2295 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
2296 (and therefore delayed).
2297 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
2298 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
2299 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
2300 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
2301 - move some private declaration to the right place
2302 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
2303 - document the module
2304 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
2305 * Documentation improvements:
2306 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
2307 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
2309 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
2311 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
2313 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
2316 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
2317 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
2321 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
2322 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
2324 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
2325 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
2326 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
2327 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
2328 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
2329 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
2330 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
2331 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
2332 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
2333 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
2336 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
2337 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
2339 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
2342 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
2344 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
2346 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
2350 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
2351 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
2352 remote compilation helpers.
2354 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
2358 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
2360 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
2362 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
2363 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
2364 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
2365 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
2367 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
2369 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
2371 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
2375 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
2377 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
2378 through the function MSG_paje_output.
2379 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
2380 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
2381 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
2382 to write it in the changelog).
2383 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
2388 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
2389 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
2390 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
2392 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
2393 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
2394 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
2395 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
2397 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
2398 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
2399 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
2400 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
2402 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
2403 lookup time (for now).
2404 Use it in msg and trp.
2405 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
2406 headers between the gras components.
2407 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
2408 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
2409 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
2411 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
2413 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
2415 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
2417 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
2419 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
2420 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
2421 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
2422 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
2423 summary of the main changes.
2425 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
2426 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
2427 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
2428 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
2429 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
2430 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
2431 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
2432 in the documentation.
2434 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
2435 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
2436 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
2437 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
2438 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
2439 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2441 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2442 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2443 with the previous version are :
2444 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2445 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2446 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2447 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2448 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2449 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2450 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2451 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2452 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2454 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2455 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2456 dictionaries that are much faster).
2458 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2460 *****************************************************************************
2461 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2462 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2463 *****************************************************************************
2466 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2467 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2468 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2471 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2474 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2475 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2476 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2478 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2479 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2480 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2481 to 'make check' over there yet.
2483 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2484 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2485 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2486 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2487 trees. One day maybe...
2488 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2489 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2490 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2491 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2494 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2495 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2497 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2498 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2499 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2500 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2502 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2503 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2505 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2506 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2507 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2508 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2509 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2510 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2512 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2513 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2514 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2515 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2516 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2517 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2518 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2519 - e_toto_t is an enum
2520 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2522 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2523 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2524 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2525 s_toto_t) is private.
2527 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2528 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2529 it changed for dynars.
2531 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2532 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2534 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2535 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2537 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2539 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2540 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2541 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2543 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2544 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2546 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2547 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2549 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2550 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2551 far more lookup than setting.
2553 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2555 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2556 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2558 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2559 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2560 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2562 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2563 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2565 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2566 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2568 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2569 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2570 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2572 - Header reorganization.
2573 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2575 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2576 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2578 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2579 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2580 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2581 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2582 This simplify the API a lot.
2584 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2585 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2586 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2587 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2590 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2592 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2593 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2596 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2597 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2600 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2601 - Finish the port to AIX.
2602 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2603 function. No idea why)
2605 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2606 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2608 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2609 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2610 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2612 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2614 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2615 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2616 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2617 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2619 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2620 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2621 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2622 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2623 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2624 hopefully usefull message.
2625 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2627 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2628 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2629 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2631 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2632 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2633 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2634 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2636 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2637 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2638 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2639 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2640 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2641 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2642 - search not dichotomial yet
2643 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2644 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2645 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2646 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2647 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2648 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2649 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2650 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2651 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2652 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2653 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2655 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2656 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2657 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2660 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2661 the ID of this type.
2663 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2664 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2665 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2666 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2667 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2668 real life and on sg in simulation).
2669 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2670 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2671 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2672 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2673 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2674 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2675 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2676 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2677 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2678 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2679 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2682 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2683 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2684 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2685 - shorted the function names:
2686 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2687 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2688 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2689 pop their size of the stack.
2690 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2691 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2692 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2693 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2695 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2696 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2697 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2698 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2700 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2701 - understand it again
2702 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2703 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2704 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2705 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2707 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2708 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2710 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2711 - Some documentation cleanups
2712 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2713 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2714 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2715 gras -> . symbolic link
2716 - make distcheck is now successful
2718 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2720 - Build shared library also
2721 - Install html doc to the right location
2722 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2723 - build tests only on make check
2725 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2727 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2728 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2729 corresponding dataset.
2731 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2733 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2734 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2735 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2736 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2738 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2739 [autoconf mechanism]
2740 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2741 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2742 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2743 Alignment is a serious matter)
2744 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2745 constraints of each types)
2746 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2748 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2749 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2750 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2751 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2752 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2753 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2754 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2756 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2757 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2759 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2760 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2761 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2763 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2764 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2765 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2766 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2767 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2769 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2770 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2771 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2772 generated as first byte.
2773 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2774 architecture descriptions.
2775 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2776 on those architectures.
2777 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2779 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2780 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2782 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2783 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2784 settings will be separated
2785 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2787 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2789 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2790 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2791 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2792 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2794 [gras_stub_generator]
2795 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2797 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2798 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2799 them all up in one shot)
2801 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2802 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2803 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2805 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2806 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2807 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2809 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2810 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2811 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2812 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2813 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2814 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2816 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2818 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2820 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2821 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2824 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2825 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2826 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2828 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2830 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2832 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2834 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2835 - kill a few lines of dead code
2836 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2837 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2838 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2840 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2841 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2843 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2844 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2845 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2847 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2849 - Porting to new standards.
2851 - interface cleanup.
2852 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2853 pointers behind "ID".
2854 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2855 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2856 interleaved, but anyway.
2858 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2860 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2862 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2863 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2864 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
2866 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2868 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2870 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2871 - send/receive function.
2872 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2873 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2874 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2875 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2876 - base types: int, float
2877 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2878 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2879 - chained list, graph with cycle
2880 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2881 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2885 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2887 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2889 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2890 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2892 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2894 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2895 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2896 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2898 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2899 (the latter function is removed)
2900 [Conditional execution]
2901 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2902 [Code reorganisation]
2903 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2904 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2905 its creation for now.
2907 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2908 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since