1 SimGrid (3.20) NOT RELEASED YET (Release target: June 21. 2018 10:07 UTC)
4 - Change --cfg=tracing/msg/vm to --cfg=tracing/vm as virtual machine
5 behavior tracing is no longer limited to MSG
6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8 SimGrid (3.19.1) Released March 22 2018
10 The Fixed ABI Release.
12 As you may know, we are currently refactoring SimGrid in deep.
13 Upcoming SimGrid4 will be really different from SimGrid3: modular,
14 standard and extensible vs. layered, homegrown and rigid. C++ vs. C.
16 Our goal is to smooth this transition, with backward compatibility
17 and automatic update paths, while still progressing toward SimGrid4.
19 SimGrid remains open during works: The last pure SimGrid3 release was
20 v3.12 while all subsequent versions are usable alpha versions of
21 SimGrid4: Existing interfaces remain unchanged, but the new S4U
22 interface is budding and the internals are deeply reorganized.
24 Since 2015, we work hard to reduce the changes to public APIs. When
25 we need to rename a public library symbol in S4U, we let your
26 compiler issue an explicative warning when you use the deprecated
27 function. These messages remain for four releases, i.e. for one full
28 year, before turning into an error. Starting with v3.15, your can
29 also adapt to API changes with the SIMGRID_VERSION macro, that is
30 defined to 31500 for v3.15, to 31901 for v3.19.1 and so on.
32 Starting with this v3.19.1, our commitment to reduce the changes to
33 the public interfaces is extended from the API to the ABI: a program
34 using only MSG or SimDag and compiled against a given version of
35 simgrid can probably be used with a later version of SimGrid without
36 recompilation. We will do our best... but don't expect too much of
37 it, that's a really difficult goal during such profund refactoring.
39 The difference between v3.19 and v3.19.1 is that the former was
40 accidentally breaking the ABI of MSG, while the later is restoring
43 S4U and kernel APIs will still evolve until SimGrid4, with one-year
44 deprecation warnings as currently. In fact, cleaning up these
45 interfaces and converting them to snake_case() is one release goal of
46 v3.20. But don't worry, we are working to smooth this upgrade path.
48 In summary, new projects should start with S4U to benefit of the
49 future, but old MSG projects should still be usable with no change.
51 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
53 SimGrid (3.19) Released March 20 2018
55 The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
57 SMPI user-visible improvements:
58 - Support of MPI_Type_create_subarray
59 - Unimplemented MPI calls now abort (instead of issuing a warning)
60 Some harmless calls around errhandlers still only issue a warning.
61 - MPI_Sendrecv was behaving badly when MPI_PROC_NULL was sender or receiver.
62 - Starting MPI ranks (or even MSG/S4U actors) once the simulation started
63 is now possible (mmap privatization was refactored to this end).
64 Adding new SMPI instances should also be technically doable now.
66 SMPI internal cleanups:
67 - Removed index notion from SMPI -- no more "getPid() - 1"!
68 In tracing files, actors are called rank-<PROCESS-ID> but these are
69 NOT the real ranks (tracing several communicators is not supported yet).
70 - Deprecate smpi_process_index() (will be removed in 3.22)
71 - Better testing on classical proxy apps, through an external project:
72 https://github.com/simgrid/SMPI-proxy-apps/
75 - Use a graphical TOC to make it easier to find the documentation you need
76 - Revamp the MSG tutorial
79 - Fix MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(): return 1.0 for unstarted tasks.
80 - Remove parameter of MSG_process_killall().
81 Resetting the PID was bogus anyway (several actors could have the same PID).
84 - Execution->setHost() can be called after start(), to migrate it.
85 - Comm::test_any() is now implemented.
86 - s4u::Actor now has onCreation() and onDestruction() signals.
87 - Install some kernel header files for the users' plugins and more.
88 Warning, their API is really not stable yet.
89 include/simgrid/kernel/resource/{Action,Resource,Model}.hpp
90 include/simgrid/kernel/routing/*Zone.hpp
93 - SD_task_dependency_add(): remove unused parameters 'name' and 'data'.
95 Build System and other cleanups:
96 - Remove unused run-time parameter "tracing/onelink-only".
97 - SimGrid now works with intel compilers (MC still buggy)
98 - Remove XBT_LOG_CONNECT, it should be useless nowadays.
99 - tesh kills subprocesses on timeout (but not on windows)
102 - Rename FULLDUPLEX into SPLITDUPLEX (old name still accepted)
105 - #194: Feature request: simgrid::s4u::Comm::test_any()
106 - #245: migrating an actor does not migrate its execution
107 - #254: Something seems wrong with s4u::Actor::kill(aid_t)
108 - #256: Modernize FindSimGrid.cmake
109 - #257: Fix (ab)use of CMake install
111 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
113 SimGrid (3.18) Released December 24 2017
115 The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
117 MSG IS NOW DEPRECATED. Please use S4U for new projects.
118 - Support for MSG should not be removed from SimGrid before 2020,
119 but future evolutions will be limited to the integration of
120 user-provided patches.
123 - s4u::onDeadlock() signal, run before stopping the simulation.
124 - s4u::Exec: asynchronous executions (abstraction of background
126 - s4u::Host->getLoad() returns the achieved speed in flops/s
129 - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
130 Link::getCname() instead.
131 - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
132 Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
133 - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
134 Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
135 - s4u::allStorages() becomes s4u::getStorageList(whereTo)
136 to have both allocation and deallocation of the map in user space.
139 - Forbid the use of MSG_task_get_flops_amount() on parallel tasks:
140 The amount of flops remaining to do is a vector, not a scalar.
141 - Introduce MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio(), which does what its
142 name implies on both sequential and parallel tasks.
143 - Both changes fix GitHub's #223 using PR #237 as a basis.
144 Thanks Michael Mercier.
145 - Most examples were converted to S4U and hidden elsewhere at tests.
146 Rationale: we still want MSG to work; we want newcomers to use S4U.
149 - LMM stuff moved to its own namespace: simgrid::kernel::lmm.
150 - Renamed LMM classes (e.g. s_lmm_system_t -> System).
153 - Switch to the faster dlopen privatization mechanism by default
154 - Documentation improvments
157 - Live migration is getting moved to a plugin. Dirty page tracking is
158 the first part of this plugin. This imply that VM migration is now
159 only possible if one this function is called :
160 - C/MSG: MSG_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
161 - C/C++: sg_vm_live_migration_plugin_init()
162 - Java: Msg.liveMigrationInit()
163 For C and C++, "simgrid/plugins/live_migration.h" also has to be
167 - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
168 - Removed unused functions:
169 - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
170 - xbt/graph.h: xbt_graph_edge_get_length(), xbt_graph_edge_set_length,
171 xbt_graph_export_graphviz()
172 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
173 - Remove unused datatypes:
174 - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
175 - xbt/swag.h: use boost::intrusive::list instead
178 - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
179 - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
180 packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
181 public interface can be found in
182 include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
183 To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
184 calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
185 MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
189 - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
192 - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
195 - #248: Kill of finished processes leads to segfault
196 - #240: xbt_cond_wait_timeout should gracefully return for C apps
197 - #239: please implement signal s4u::onDeadlock()
198 - #230: segfaults when exit() without run()
199 - #225: s4u::Actor::kill() doesn not really kill victims in a join()
200 - #223: MSG_task_get_flops_amount() not working with parallel tasks
201 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
202 - #221: odd LMM warning when killing an actor
203 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
205 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
207 SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
209 The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
211 Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
212 stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
213 over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
217 - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
218 handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
219 - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
220 - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
221 - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
224 - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
227 - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
228 really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
231 - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
232 when a process is forcibly killed.
233 - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
236 - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
238 - Removed unused functions:
239 - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
240 xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
241 - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
244 - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
245 msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
247 - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
248 - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
249 - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
250 - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
251 - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
252 - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
253 - #191: VM migration and pstate
254 - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
255 - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
256 - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
257 - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
258 - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
260 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
262 SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
264 The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
267 - FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
268 - Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
269 - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
271 XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
272 * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
273 - <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
274 - <zoneRoute> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
275 - <bypassZoneRoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
276 - <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
277 - state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
278 (check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
279 * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
280 - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
281 - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
282 - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
283 the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
286 - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
287 SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
288 When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
289 simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
290 argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
294 - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
295 BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
298 - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
299 - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
300 cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
301 BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
304 - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
305 The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
308 - New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
309 - New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
310 - New option : smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
311 mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
312 (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
313 - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
314 - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
315 - New RMA calls supported (experimental) :
316 - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
317 - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
318 - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
319 - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
320 - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
321 - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
324 - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
325 - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
326 Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
329 - Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
330 Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
331 - DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
332 - DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
333 - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
334 - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
336 -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
338 SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
340 The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
341 We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
342 Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), Mac OSX (Mavericks, El Capitan)
343 Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD.
345 - Rename NetCards to NetPoints.
346 This was intended to help NS3 users, but that's not a netcard.
347 That's a point in the routing algorithm, let's avoid wrong simplifications.
350 - New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
351 - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
352 when the last non-daemon process terminates
353 - New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
354 - Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
355 to make room for the upcoming network energy plugin.
356 - Drop MSG_host_get_current_power_peak: duplicates MSG_host_get_speed
359 - Ensure that an actor can kill itself with Process::exit()
360 - Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
361 it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
362 be caught explicitly).
363 - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
364 consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
365 This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
367 The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
368 the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
369 if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
370 It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
371 - Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
375 - s4u::onPlatformCreated: right before the simulation starts
376 - s4u::onSimulationEnd: right after the main simulation loop
377 - s4u::onTimeAdvance: right after a clock change (time is discrete)
378 - s4u::Host::onSpeedChange: when the pstate is changed, or when an
379 event from the availability_file changes the avail speed.
380 - Links are now usable from s4u
381 - New: Engine::hostList() and Engine::hostCount(). Still clumsy.
382 - New: Actor::suspend(), Actor::resume(), and Actor::migrate(new_host)
383 - New examples: The conversion of MSG examples to S4U has begun
384 - Actors: create, kill, migration, and suspend
385 - Applications: master-worker and token-ring
386 - Action replay: communications and storage
387 - Drop Host::getPstateSpeedCurrent() which duplicates Host::speed()
390 - Backwards Compatibility breaks
391 - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
392 They are replaced by the unique
393 void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
394 The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
395 be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
396 - The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
397 sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
398 Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
401 - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
402 This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
403 - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
404 We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
405 - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
406 naive and probably inaccurate)
407 - New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
408 mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
409 - Bugfix: smpirun was sometimes misusing hostfile when wrongly terminated
410 - Fortran: cleanups, fixes, support of user-added operations
411 - RMA: MPI_Accumulate are applied in correct order.
412 - RMA: MPI_Win_{complete/post} shouldn't miss messages anymore.
413 - Better support for MPI_IN_PLACE
414 - Support for MPI_Win attrs and keyvals.
415 - Support MPI_Comm_group_create, MPI_Type_size_x
416 - MPI ops should be properly applied to all allowed types
417 - Replace implementation of MPI_Bcast "scatter followed by rdb allgather"
418 algorithm by a non failing one from mpich.
421 - Kill the fifo data container: we don't use it anymore.
424 - A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
425 see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
427 SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
429 The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
430 this one should be a bit better.
432 - Revert a last minute change that broke on Mac OSX.
433 - Fix the changelog and NEWS files.
434 - Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
435 - Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
437 SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
440 * The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
441 still much room for improvement here, but we're on it.
444 * We now need python3 for our testing infrastructure.
445 * Model checking needs libevent
448 * Now works on FreeBSD
451 * Privatization now works on FreeBSD
453 * Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
454 You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
456 * Call-location tracing for SMPI.
457 You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
458 your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
459 consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
461 * Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
462 We've found a bug that prevented SMPI to account for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv
463 and others (in some cases) in a correct way. That is, the smpi/os, smpi/or
464 values were ignored in some cases. The timings of these functions can now
465 be significantly different.
467 * smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
468 smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
470 * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
471 timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
472 make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
474 * smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
476 * SMPI tracing : fixed issue with poor matching of send/receives.
478 * Replay : Fix broken waitall
480 New functions and features
481 * MSG_parallel_task_execute_with_timeout, to timeout computations.
483 Dropped / renamed functions and features
484 * msg_mailbox_t and associated functions. Use s4u::Mailbox instead.
485 - MSG_mailbox_is_empty() -> Mailbox::empty()
486 - MSG_mailbox_front() -> Mailbox::front()
487 - MSG_mailbox_get_by_alias() -> simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::byName(name)
488 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext() -> MSG_task_receive_ext()
489 - MSG_mailbox_get_task_ext_bounded -> MSG_task_receive_ext_bounded
490 - MSG_host_(get/set)_params -> MSG_vm_(get/set)_params
491 * Don't pass the free_f parameter to property related functions:
492 - MSG_host_set_property_value()
493 - MSG_as_router_set_property_value()
494 - MSG_storage_set_property_value()
495 * VM properties. Since msg_vm_t are msg_host_t, just use
496 MSG_host_get_property_value() and friends
497 * VM I/O related things:
498 - Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
499 - Unimplemented save/restore methods
500 * MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundent with
501 MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
502 - Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
503 - Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
504 * xbt heterogeneous dictionnaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
505 Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
506 Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
508 * Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
509 and probably not really working) was deceiving what most users
510 would have hoped here.
511 * xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
512 * Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
515 * Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
518 * Added option maxmin/concurrency_limit to allow more than 100 processes per host
519 * Added Dragonfly topology support
522 * Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
523 EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
524 They may become useful to some lucky ones.
527 * New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
528 * ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
529 * ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
532 * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
533 of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
535 SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
537 The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
539 - We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
540 v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
541 (not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
542 - The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
543 - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
544 59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
546 * Backwards Compatibility breaks
547 - Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
548 Lua can still be used to describe platforms
549 - Removed Java kernel plug-ins.
550 Will be reintroduced after the ongoing major internals reorg.
552 - the following functions were removed.
553 They were too specific and should be reimplemented in a generic
554 way, with filter function.
555 - MSG_task_listen_from_host
556 - MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
557 - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
558 Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
560 - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
561 - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
562 replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
563 - The following functions thus do not exist anymore
564 - SD_workstation_get_access_mode
565 - SD_workstation_set_access_mode
566 - SD_workstation_get_current_task
567 - Basic estimation functions have been removed but can easily be replaced
568 - SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
569 - SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
571 - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
572 Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
574 - option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
575 - In the ModelChecker:
576 - the model-checker now ptraces the model-checked process which means
577 you cannot use a debugger on the latter anymore (we might make this
578 optional in the feature);
579 - removed soft-dirty page tracking;
580 - remove model-checked side snapshot management,
581 MC_snapshot() and MC_compare_snapshot();
582 - keep the MC_cut() function as a stub (it was not really working
583 in the previous release).
586 * All options are consistently in kebab-case. Old names are kept as alias.
589 * Switch to platform v4 format.
590 - Rename from 'power' to 'speed' the attributes describing the amount of
591 flops that a <host>, <peer>, <cluster> or <cabinet> can deliver per second.
592 - In <trace_connect>, attribute kind="POWER" is now kind="SPEED".
593 - In <host> and <link>, attributes availability and state are gone.
594 It was redundent with state and availability traces, and with peak values.
595 - In <cluster>, attributes availability_file and state_file are gone.
596 It was too complex and unused.
597 - Kill <gpu>. Was not doing anything.
598 - The DOCTYPE points to the right URL:
599 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd
600 (the file at this address now documents the changelog since its v1)
601 - A warning is emitted for unit-less values (they are still accepted).
602 - speed. Default: 'f' or 'flops'. Also defined:
603 'Yf', 'Zf', 'Ef', 'Pf', 'Tf', 'Gf', 'Mf', 'kf'
604 'yottaflops', 'zettaflops', 'exaflops', 'petaflops', 'teraflops', 'gigaflops', 'megaflops', 'kiloflops'
605 - bandwidth. Default: 'Bps' bytes per second (or 'bps' for bits but 1 Bps = 8 bps)
606 Also defined in bytes: 'TiBps', 'GiBps', 'MiBps', 'KiBps', 'TBps', 'GBps', 'MBps', 'kBps', 'Bps'
607 And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
608 - latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
609 'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
611 * bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
612 tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
615 * s4u::Host is now the preferred public interface to the Host features.
616 sg_host_* functions are C bindings to the exact same behavior
617 MSG_host_* and SD_workstation_* are #define to the sg_host_* ones
620 * The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
621 * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
622 They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
625 * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
626 SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
627 Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
628 encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
629 include/simgrid/simdag.h
632 * simgrid::simix::kernelImmediate() is the closure callback. It ensures that
633 the lambda or closure passed as a parameter will run in kernel mode.
634 All the callback functions should be rewritten to that interface at some point.
637 * Reorganizing and cleaning the internals all around the place.
640 * Remove old default barrier/bcast buggy algorithms (see #18407)
641 * Various bug fixes to handle more codes
642 * Remove the need for the --foreground option of smpirun (it is still
643 accepted for backward compatibility).
646 * Kill the setset data container: MC don't use it anymore.
647 * Kill the queue data container: it made more sense with GRAS.
648 * Kill the xbt_peer_t data type: it's useless without GRAS.
649 * Kill rm_cb feature of config sets: it was never useful.
650 * Kill graphxml parsing feature. It was not used.
651 * Kill the deprecated code protected by XBT_USE_DEPRECATED
653 - xbt_dynar_sort_strings(), when the content is char*
654 - xbt_str_parse_int / xbt_str_parse_double, wrapping strtol/strtod
655 They throw exceptions on invalid input;
656 * C++ support for declaring CLI flags (simgrid::config::Flag);
657 * class for abstracting different signal backends (simgrid::xbt::signal).
658 with no external dependencies (we need very simple signals).
661 * refactoring and cleanup of the code;
662 * ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
663 from the code model-checking support.
665 -- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
667 SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
669 The Facelift Release.
672 * Require g++ v4.7 at least to not speak prehistorical C++.
673 * Require Boost 1.48 (for signal2 component).
674 * Java must be version 7 at least when activated.
675 * Builds on Windows again (including Java bindings).
676 * Tracing is now always enabled (no way to turn it out)
677 * Remove GTNetS. It was not working anyway.
678 * Various cleanups in the cmake scripts.
679 * Move headers around to sort them out on installed systems:
680 - instr/instr.h -> simgrid/instr.h
681 - instr/jedule/* -> simgrid/jedule
682 - simdag/datatypes.h was removed
683 - simdag/simdag.h -> simgrid/simdag.h
684 - msg/datatypes.h was removed
685 - msg/msg.h -> simgrid/msg.h
688 * Interface improvement:
689 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
690 - Sanitize the interface in MSG_task_ module:
691 - Merge two functions that were close enough but misleading:
692 set_compute_duration(t) -> set_flops_amount(t)
693 get_remaining_computation(t) -> get_flops_amount(t)
694 - set_data_size(t) -> set_bytes_amount(t)
695 get_data_size(t) -> get_bytes_amount(t)
696 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
697 - MSG_host_get_pstate_number() -> MSG_host_get_nb_pstates()
698 - New: MSG_host_get_pstate()
700 - msg/energy/onoff: switching hosts on and off
702 * Interface improvement:
703 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
704 - Rename Process.currentProcess() to Process.getCurrentProcess()
705 - Rename Task.setDataSize() to Task.setBytesAmount()
706 - Merge Task.getRemainingDuration() and Task.getComputeDuration() into Task.getFlopsAmount()
708 - #18874: Actually allows the GC to reclaim tasks
712 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
713 * Refactoring: Separate sub-modules
714 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
715 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
716 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embed the user code
717 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
719 - simcall_host_set_power_peak_at -> simcall_host_set_pstate
720 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
721 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
722 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
723 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
724 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
726 - #18888: segfault when a process ends before its kill_time
730 - 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.
731 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
732 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
733 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
734 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
735 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
736 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
738 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
739 - InfiniBand network model added : Based on the works of Jerome Vienne
740 http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf
741 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
742 - Have smpirun, smpicc and friends display the simgrid git hash version on --git-version
743 * Collective communications
744 - 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
745 - 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/).
746 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
748 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
749 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
750 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
751 - 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.
753 - [#17799] : have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
754 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
755 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
756 * Energy/DVFS cleanup and improvement
757 - smpi_set_host_power_peak_at() -> smpi_set_host_pstate()
758 - new: smpi_get_host_pstate()
761 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
762 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
763 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
764 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
765 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
766 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
767 - New property: watt_off to denote the dissipation when the host is off
768 - New functions getWattMinAt and getWattMaxAt to retrieve the
769 dissipation of pstates that we are not currently at.
770 * Java: class NetworkLink renamed to Link
771 * New function: simcall_process_get_kill_time()
772 * Massive rename s/workstation/host/
773 - That's intrusive, but that's good for the project consistency. Sorry.
774 - Change config option "workstation/model" into "host/model"
777 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
778 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
779 - Add two new log appenders : rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
780 - xbt_dirname and xbt_basename for non-POSIX systems
782 * The model checker now runs as a separate process.
783 * The model checker runs must now be launched with the new simgrid-mc program.
784 * Record/Replay: the MC can display a textual representation of a path in the
785 execution graph. It can then be replayed outside of the model checker.
787 -- Mon Oct 12 06:02:41 CEST 2015 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
789 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
794 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
797 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
798 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
799 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
800 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
801 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
802 * Add java surf examples:
803 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
804 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
805 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
806 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
807 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
812 - msg task destroy cancel test
813 - msg_host on/off test
814 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
815 * Restructure teshsuites
816 - one folder for each kind of test
817 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
819 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
822 * Add virtual machine
823 - creation of a VM on a PM
824 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
826 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
827 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
828 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
829 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
830 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
831 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
834 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
836 - Increase code coverage in test suites
840 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
841 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
842 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
843 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
844 - generates files included by SimGrid
845 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
847 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
848 host_set_data, host_get_data
850 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
851 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
854 * Translate surf models from C to C++
855 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
856 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
857 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
859 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
860 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
861 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
862 - Add callback functions for action state change
863 - Handle Energy as a plugin
864 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
865 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
866 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
867 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
868 parameters for cluster tag
869 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
870 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
871 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
872 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
876 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
878 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
879 improper number of nodes and report the error.
880 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies : MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
881 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
882 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
883 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
884 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave) :
885 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
889 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
890 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
891 Limitations : Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
892 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
893 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
896 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
899 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
900 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
901 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
902 are kept installed elsewhere.
903 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
904 - plugin to handle callbacks
905 - CPU model only for the moment
908 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
909 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
910 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
911 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
912 * Add boost dependency for surf++
913 * Add new macro for tests
914 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
915 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
919 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
920 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
921 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
922 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
924 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
926 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
928 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
931 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
932 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
933 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
934 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
935 cached in the Java world
938 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
939 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
940 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
941 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
942 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
945 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
946 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
947 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
948 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
949 in the original application.
950 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
951 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
952 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
954 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
955 - Gatherv collective is now supported
956 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
957 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
958 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
959 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
960 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
961 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
962 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
963 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
964 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
965 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
966 * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
968 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
969 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
970 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
971 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
973 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
974 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
975 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
976 (no privatization of global variables yet)
977 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
980 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
981 (in addition to MSG applications)
982 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
983 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
984 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
985 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
986 DPOR for safety properties.
989 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
990 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
991 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
994 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
995 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
996 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
997 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
998 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
999 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
1000 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
1001 router but this is transparent.
1004 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
1005 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
1006 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
1007 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
1008 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
1009 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
1010 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
1011 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
1012 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
1013 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
1016 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
1017 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
1018 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
1019 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
1021 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
1024 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1026 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
1028 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
1030 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
1033 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
1034 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
1035 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
1036 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
1037 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
1038 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
1039 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
1040 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
1041 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
1044 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
1045 splitting it was really not helping our users.
1046 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
1047 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
1048 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
1051 * Now works on Windows too!
1052 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
1055 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
1056 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
1057 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
1058 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
1059 a control dependency.
1060 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
1061 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1065 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
1066 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
1067 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
1068 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
1072 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
1073 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
1074 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
1075 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
1076 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
1077 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
1078 trace is not at time 0.
1081 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
1082 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
1086 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
1087 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
1089 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
1090 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
1093 * Fix the lua deployment:
1094 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
1095 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
1098 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
1100 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1102 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
1104 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
1107 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
1109 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1111 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
1113 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
1116 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
1117 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
1118 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
1119 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
1120 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
1121 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
1122 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
1123 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
1124 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
1125 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
1126 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
1128 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
1129 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
1130 points in the library helps us).
1131 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
1132 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
1133 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
1136 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
1137 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
1140 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
1141 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
1143 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
1144 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
1145 purpose ("on" by default).
1148 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
1149 survive the host they are running onto.
1150 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
1151 executing comes back.
1152 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
1153 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
1156 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
1157 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
1159 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
1160 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
1161 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
1162 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
1163 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
1164 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
1165 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
1167 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
1168 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
1169 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
1170 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
1172 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
1173 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
1174 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
1175 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
1177 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
1178 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
1179 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
1180 (from their beginning)
1181 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
1185 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
1186 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
1187 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
1188 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
1189 hindexed and structs)
1190 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
1191 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
1192 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
1193 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
1194 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
1195 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
1196 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
1197 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
1200 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
1201 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
1202 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
1203 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
1204 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
1205 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
1209 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
1210 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
1211 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
1212 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
1213 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
1214 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
1215 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
1218 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
1219 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
1220 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
1221 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
1222 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
1224 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1226 SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
1228 * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings)
1229 Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are
1230 implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c)
1231 for further information.
1232 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions)
1233 * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds)
1234 * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from
1235 the begining, like MSG_process_restart in C.
1236 * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed
1238 * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows
1239 you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts
1240 * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now.
1241 * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling
1242 with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library.
1244 * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM
1245 but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is
1246 no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory).
1248 -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1250 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
1253 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
1254 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
1255 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
1258 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
1261 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
1262 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
1263 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
1266 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
1269 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
1270 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
1271 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
1272 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
1274 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
1275 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
1276 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
1277 feature, any help would be really welcome.
1279 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1282 SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
1284 The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release
1287 * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement
1288 Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so
1289 * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one
1290 * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses.
1291 This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was
1292 brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial
1293 initializations in the process constructor.
1294 * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class.
1295 Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more
1296 efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup.
1297 * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered
1298 as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features.
1302 * Add examples for almost every part of the API
1303 We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process
1305 * New module: asynchronous communication API
1306 * New function: Process.sleep()
1307 It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep()
1308 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes)
1309 * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators)
1311 -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1313 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
1315 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
1318 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
1319 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
1320 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
1321 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
1322 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
1323 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
1324 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
1325 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
1326 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
1327 Accuracy should be improved this way.
1328 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
1329 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
1330 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
1331 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
1332 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
1333 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
1334 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
1335 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
1336 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
1337 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
1338 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
1339 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
1340 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
1341 network/coordinates, and document it
1342 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
1343 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
1344 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
1345 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
1346 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
1349 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
1350 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
1351 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
1352 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
1353 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
1354 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
1355 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
1356 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
1357 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
1358 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
1359 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
1360 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
1363 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
1364 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
1365 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
1366 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
1367 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
1368 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
1369 execution mode (raw contexts only)
1370 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
1371 synchronization structures.
1372 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
1373 in very specific conditions.
1376 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
1377 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
1378 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
1379 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
1380 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
1381 This is released anyway because YMMV.
1384 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
1385 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
1389 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
1392 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
1393 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
1394 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
1395 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
1396 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
1397 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
1398 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
1399 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
1400 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
1401 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
1402 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
1403 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
1404 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
1405 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
1406 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
1407 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
1410 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
1411 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
1412 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
1413 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
1414 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
1417 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
1418 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
1419 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
1423 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
1424 to display information about supported logging parameters and
1426 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
1427 don't exists anymore.
1428 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
1430 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
1431 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
1432 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
1433 deprecated in the next release.
1434 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
1435 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
1437 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
1438 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
1439 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
1440 element is not found.
1442 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
1443 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
1445 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
1446 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
1447 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
1448 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
1449 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
1450 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
1451 necessary at this point to get MC working.
1453 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
1454 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
1456 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1459 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
1461 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
1464 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
1465 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
1466 (portable) ones when possible.
1467 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
1468 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
1469 * Update the XML platforms:
1470 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
1471 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
1472 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
1474 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
1475 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
1476 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
1478 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
1479 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
1482 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
1483 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
1484 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
1485 its compilation burden
1486 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
1487 * Port to Windows 64 bits
1488 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
1489 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
1490 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
1491 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
1492 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
1493 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
1496 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1498 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
1500 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
1503 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
1504 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
1505 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
1506 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
1507 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
1510 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
1512 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1514 SimGrid-java (3.6) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package.
1519 -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1521 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
1523 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
1526 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
1527 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
1528 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
1530 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
1531 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
1533 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
1534 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
1535 but it may soon become the case.
1538 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
1539 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
1540 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
1541 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
1542 local static variables.
1543 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
1547 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
1548 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
1549 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
1551 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
1552 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
1553 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
1554 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
1556 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
1557 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
1558 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
1559 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
1560 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
1561 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
1562 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
1563 index of a finished communication (if any).
1564 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
1567 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
1568 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
1569 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
1570 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
1572 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
1573 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
1574 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
1575 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
1576 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
1577 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
1578 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
1579 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
1582 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
1584 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
1585 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
1586 do the work in an efficient manner.
1587 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
1588 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
1589 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
1590 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
1591 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
1592 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
1593 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
1594 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
1595 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
1596 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
1598 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
1602 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
1603 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
1604 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
1605 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
1606 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
1607 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
1608 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
1609 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
1610 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
1611 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
1612 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
1613 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
1615 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
1616 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
1620 * New configuration options
1621 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
1622 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
1623 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
1624 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
1625 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
1626 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
1627 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
1629 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
1630 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
1631 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
1632 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
1633 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
1634 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
1635 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
1636 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
1637 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
1639 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
1640 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
1641 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
1642 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
1643 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
1644 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
1645 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
1647 Build Infrastructure
1648 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
1649 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
1650 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
1651 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
1652 could rely on that macro to adapt.
1653 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
1654 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
1655 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
1656 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
1657 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
1659 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1661 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
1664 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
1665 Check SIN#1 for more details.
1668 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
1669 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
1670 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
1671 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
1672 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
1673 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
1674 * See also src/smpi/README
1679 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
1680 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
1681 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
1682 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
1683 same for MSG and SimDag.
1684 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
1686 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
1687 where color must be in the following format
1688 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
1689 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
1690 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
1691 TRACE_category (cat)
1692 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
1693 - The following command-line options are supported:
1694 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
1695 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
1696 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
1697 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
1698 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
1699 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
1700 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
1701 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
1702 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
1703 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
1705 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
1706 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
1707 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
1708 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
1709 - Collective operations are traced with states
1710 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
1711 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
1712 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
1713 is compiled with tracing enabled)
1714 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
1715 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
1716 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
1717 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
1718 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
1719 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
1720 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
1721 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
1724 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
1725 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
1726 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
1727 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
1728 * New function: MSG_set_function
1729 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
1730 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
1732 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
1733 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
1734 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
1737 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
1738 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
1739 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
1740 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
1741 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
1742 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
1743 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
1744 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
1745 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
1746 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
1747 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
1748 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
1750 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
1751 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
1752 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
1753 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
1754 you want to use this routing scheme.
1755 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
1756 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
1757 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
1758 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
1759 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
1760 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
1761 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
1762 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
1763 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
1764 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
1766 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
1767 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
1768 results when exchanging small messages.
1769 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
1770 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
1771 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
1774 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
1775 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
1776 dependencies are satisfied) state.
1777 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
1778 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
1779 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
1780 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
1781 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
1782 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
1783 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
1784 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
1785 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
1786 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
1787 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
1788 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
1789 installation of the graphviz library.
1790 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
1791 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
1792 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
1793 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
1794 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
1795 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
1796 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
1797 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
1798 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
1799 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
1800 using a Min-Min strategy.
1801 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
1802 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
1804 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
1805 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
1808 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
1809 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
1810 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
1811 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
1812 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
1813 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
1814 Please use (proper) visualization instead
1817 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
1818 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
1819 independent segments of malloc)
1820 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
1821 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
1822 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
1823 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
1824 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
1825 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
1826 uninitialized areas during expand.
1827 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
1828 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
1829 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
1830 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
1831 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
1834 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
1835 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
1836 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
1837 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
1838 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
1839 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
1840 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
1841 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
1843 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
1844 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
1845 * Port to windows ( TM :)
1846 * Fix the 'make install' target.
1847 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
1848 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
1849 'make package' compiles a binary archive
1850 * Compile java files only on need
1851 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
1852 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
1853 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
1856 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
1857 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
1858 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
1860 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1862 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
1864 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
1865 This is a bug fixes release only.
1869 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
1872 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
1873 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
1874 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
1877 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
1878 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
1881 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
1882 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
1883 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
1885 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
1887 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
1889 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
1891 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
1892 ~> bindings were greatly improved
1893 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
1895 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
1896 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
1899 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
1901 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
1902 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
1903 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
1904 Use send/receive instead.
1905 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
1906 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
1907 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
1908 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
1909 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
1910 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
1911 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
1912 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
1913 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
1914 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
1915 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
1916 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
1917 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
1918 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
1920 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
1921 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
1922 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
1923 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
1924 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
1925 such thing for that specific task.
1926 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
1927 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
1928 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
1929 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
1930 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
1932 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
1933 the deprecated put/get interface.
1934 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
1935 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
1937 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
1938 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
1939 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
1940 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
1942 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
1943 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
1944 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
1945 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
1946 - Fix implementation of collective operations
1947 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
1949 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
1950 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
1951 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
1952 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
1953 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
1955 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
1957 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
1958 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
1959 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
1960 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
1961 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
1962 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
1963 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
1964 * Bug fixes include:
1965 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
1966 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
1967 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
1968 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
1969 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
1971 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
1972 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
1973 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
1974 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
1975 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
1976 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
1978 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
1979 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
1980 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
1981 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
1982 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
1983 * Refactoring context stuff:
1984 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
1985 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
1986 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
1988 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
1990 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
1991 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
1992 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
1993 o network_model -> network/model
1994 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
1995 * New configuration variables:
1996 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
1997 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
1998 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
1999 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
2000 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
2001 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
2003 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
2004 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
2005 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
2006 When so, you need to use the following functions
2007 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
2008 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2009 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
2010 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
2011 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
2013 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
2014 Tracing for Visualization:
2015 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
2016 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
2017 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
2018 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
2019 (among other functions).
2020 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
2021 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
2022 traces with the Triva tool is written.
2023 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
2026 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
2027 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
2028 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
2029 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2030 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
2031 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
2032 * Added code coverage tests.
2033 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
2035 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
2037 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
2039 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
2041 Models improvements:
2042 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
2043 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
2044 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
2045 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
2046 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
2047 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
2048 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
2049 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
2050 actions on SURF kernel.
2051 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
2052 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
2053 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
2054 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
2055 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
2056 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
2057 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
2058 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
2059 availability trace files.
2060 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
2061 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
2062 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
2063 faster than the old CPU models.
2064 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
2065 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
2066 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
2067 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
2070 ******************************************
2071 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
2072 ******************************************
2073 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
2074 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
2075 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
2076 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
2077 of simulations in some cases.
2078 * The new network model will change simulations!
2079 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
2080 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
2081 Sorry for the inconvenience.
2084 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
2085 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
2086 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
2087 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
2089 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
2090 amd64 to confirm that gain.
2093 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
2094 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
2097 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
2098 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mechanism to find with who you want to speak
2099 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
2100 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
2101 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
2102 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
2103 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
2106 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
2107 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
2108 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
2109 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
2110 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
2111 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
2112 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
2113 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
2114 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
2115 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
2116 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
2117 about the task in dotty format
2118 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
2119 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
2121 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
2122 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
2123 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
2124 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
2125 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
2126 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
2127 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
2130 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
2133 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
2134 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
2135 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
2136 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
2137 thread (used in SG only for now)
2138 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
2141 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
2142 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
2143 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
2144 the comm should be done.
2145 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
2146 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
2147 use the private link instead)
2148 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
2149 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
2150 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
2151 to make it less stupid
2152 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
2153 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
2154 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
2155 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
2156 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
2157 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
2158 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
2159 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
2160 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
2161 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
2162 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
2163 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
2164 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
2166 Portability report of this version:
2167 * Main portability targets:
2168 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
2169 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
2170 - mac leopard on i386
2171 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
2172 but nothing critical.
2173 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
2175 Timing report of this version:
2176 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
2177 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
2178 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
2180 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
2182 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
2184 The "Need for Speed" release.
2186 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
2187 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
2189 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
2190 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
2191 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
2193 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
2194 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
2196 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
2197 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
2198 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
2199 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
2200 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
2201 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
2203 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
2204 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
2205 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
2206 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
2207 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
2209 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
2210 alone. We have to choose between:
2211 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
2212 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
2213 - live with low performance
2214 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
2216 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
2218 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
2220 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
2222 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
2223 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
2226 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
2227 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
2228 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
2229 => kill now useless network_card concept
2230 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
2231 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
2232 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
2233 - Add three new models:
2234 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
2235 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
2236 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
2237 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
2238 described in his ICCS09 paper.
2240 * Simplify model declaration
2241 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
2242 - Factorize stuff between models:
2245 surf_model_resource_set(model)
2246 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
2247 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
2248 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
2249 - Rename model methods:
2250 action_free ~> action_unref
2251 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
2252 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
2253 - Change model methods into functions :
2254 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
2256 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
2257 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
2258 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
2259 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
2260 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
2262 * Improve the action object model
2263 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
2264 initialization in generic_action part.
2266 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
2267 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
2270 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
2271 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
2272 => a lot of code was factorized
2273 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
2274 - simpler API for the context factory
2275 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
2276 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
2277 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
2278 and the code is a lot more readable.
2281 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
2282 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
2283 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
2284 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
2286 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
2287 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
2288 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
2289 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
2291 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
2292 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
2295 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
2296 Shout out if you used it.
2299 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
2303 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
2304 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
2305 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
2306 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
2307 * Remove the context module
2309 Portability report of this version:
2310 * Main portability targets:
2311 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
2312 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
2313 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
2314 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
2315 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
2316 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
2317 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
2319 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
2320 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
2321 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
2322 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
2325 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
2326 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
2327 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
2329 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
2330 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
2332 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
2335 Timing report of this version:
2336 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
2337 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
2338 investigating this for next release.
2340 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
2342 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
2345 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
2346 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
2349 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
2350 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
2351 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
2352 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
2353 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
2354 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
2355 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
2356 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
2357 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
2358 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
2359 clean on that point too ;)
2360 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
2361 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
2362 This helps debugging.
2363 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
2367 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
2368 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
2369 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
2370 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
2371 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
2372 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
2373 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
2374 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
2375 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
2376 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
2378 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
2379 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
2380 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
2381 * Bug fixing in failure management:
2382 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
2383 - failure during communications were not working
2386 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
2387 process in the log messages.
2388 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
2389 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
2392 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
2395 * Massive internal cleanups:
2396 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
2397 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
2399 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
2400 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
2401 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
2402 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
2404 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
2405 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
2406 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
2407 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
2408 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
2411 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
2412 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
2413 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
2416 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
2417 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
2418 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
2419 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
2423 Portability report of this version:
2424 * Main portability targets:
2425 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
2426 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
2427 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
2428 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
2429 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
2430 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
2431 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
2434 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
2435 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
2436 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
2437 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
2438 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
2439 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
2442 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
2443 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
2444 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
2446 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
2449 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
2451 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
2455 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
2456 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
2458 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
2461 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
2462 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
2463 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
2465 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
2466 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
2468 **************************************
2469 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
2470 **************************************
2471 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
2472 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
2473 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
2474 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
2476 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
2477 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
2479 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
2480 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
2481 output match an expected output [Mt].
2483 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
2484 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
2485 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
2487 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
2488 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
2489 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
2492 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
2493 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
2494 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
2495 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
2496 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
2498 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
2499 linux ones too) [Mt]
2500 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
2501 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
2502 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
2503 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
2506 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
2507 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
2508 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
2509 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
2510 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
2511 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
2512 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
2513 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
2514 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
2516 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
2517 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
2518 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
2519 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
2520 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
2521 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
2523 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
2524 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
2525 root directly) [Mt].
2528 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
2529 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
2530 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
2531 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
2532 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
2533 was thus designed [AL].
2534 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
2535 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
2537 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
2539 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
2540 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
2541 tested though [Pedro Velho].
2544 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
2546 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
2547 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
2548 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
2550 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
2552 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
2556 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
2557 least MSG is usable.
2559 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
2560 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
2561 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
2562 you can write (and must)
2563 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
2564 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
2565 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
2566 - Impacted functions:
2567 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
2568 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
2569 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
2570 (just like the main() function)
2572 GRAS new features and improvements:
2573 * New module mechanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
2574 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
2575 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
2576 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
2578 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mechanism which leaded to message
2579 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
2580 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
2581 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
2582 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
2583 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
2584 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
2585 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
2586 No big deal usually.
2587 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
2588 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
2589 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
2590 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
2591 bytes on quite fat pipes.
2594 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
2595 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
2596 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
2597 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
2598 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
2599 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
2602 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
2603 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
2604 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
2607 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
2608 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
2609 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
2610 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
2611 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
2615 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
2616 testall is the result of our cunit mechanism, and should replace all
2617 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
2619 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
2620 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
2621 and allocating new ones.
2623 Documentation update:
2624 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
2625 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
2626 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
2627 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
2628 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
2629 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
2630 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
2631 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
2633 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
2634 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
2636 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
2637 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
2638 o Part 2: Message passing
2639 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
2640 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
2641 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
2642 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
2643 . Lesson 6: Logging information properly
2644 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
2645 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
2646 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
2647 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
2648 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
2649 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
2650 - A HOWTO section containing:
2651 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
2652 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
2653 check the examples which are still here.
2655 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
2657 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
2661 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
2662 with these versions. [Vince]
2665 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
2666 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
2667 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
2668 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
2669 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
2672 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
2673 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
2674 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
2675 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
2676 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
2677 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
2678 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
2681 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
2682 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
2683 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
2684 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
2685 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
2687 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
2688 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
2691 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
2692 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
2693 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
2694 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
2695 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
2696 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
2697 correctly handled). [AL]
2698 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
2702 * New! a real RPC mechanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
2703 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
2705 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
2706 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
2708 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
2709 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
2711 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
2712 within a given period.
2713 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
2714 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
2715 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
2716 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
2717 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
2721 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
2722 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
2723 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
2724 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
2725 * Peer management module:
2726 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
2729 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
2730 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
2731 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
2732 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
2733 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
2734 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
2735 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
2736 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
2737 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
2738 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
2739 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
2740 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
2741 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
2742 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
2743 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
2744 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
2745 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
2747 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
2748 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
2749 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
2751 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
2753 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
2756 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
2757 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
2758 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2759 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
2760 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2761 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2762 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
2763 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
2764 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
2765 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
2766 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2767 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
2769 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
2770 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
2771 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
2772 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
2773 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
2774 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
2775 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
2778 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
2779 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
2782 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
2783 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
2786 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
2787 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
2788 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
2789 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
2791 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
2792 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
2794 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
2795 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
2796 to be given thru annotations.
2797 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
2798 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
2800 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
2802 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
2803 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
2806 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
2807 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
2810 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
2811 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
2812 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
2813 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
2815 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
2816 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
2817 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
2818 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
2820 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
2821 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
2822 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
2823 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
2824 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
2825 everything is arrived
2826 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
2828 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
2830 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
2831 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
2832 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
2833 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
2834 * Rework the transport plugin mechanism to simplify it and reduce the
2835 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
2838 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
2839 doing as few data copy as possible.
2841 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
2842 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
2843 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
2844 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
2846 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
2848 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
2850 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
2853 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
2854 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
2855 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
2857 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
2859 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
2865 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mechanisms.
2866 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
2867 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
2868 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
2871 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
2872 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
2873 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
2874 network model) if none was precised.
2877 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
2879 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
2880 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
2881 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
2882 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
2883 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
2884 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
2885 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
2887 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
2888 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
2890 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
2891 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
2893 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
2894 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
2895 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
2896 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
2897 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
2898 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
2900 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
2901 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
2903 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
2905 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
2909 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
2910 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
2913 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
2914 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
2916 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
2919 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
2921 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
2922 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
2925 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
2926 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
2927 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
2928 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
2929 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
2930 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
2931 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
2932 in place before [MQ]
2935 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
2936 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
2937 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
2938 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
2939 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
2940 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
2941 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
2942 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
2943 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
2946 GRAS (minor cleanups)
2947 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
2950 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
2951 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
2953 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
2954 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
2955 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
2956 meaning in networking community.
2959 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
2960 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
2961 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
2962 * New module: bandwidth
2963 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
2965 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
2967 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
2969 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
2973 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
2976 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
2979 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
2980 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
2982 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
2983 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
2984 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
2988 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
2989 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
2990 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
2991 Don't shortcut the mechanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
2992 you need on the simulator.
2996 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
2997 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
2998 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
2999 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
3000 needed by MSG examples complications
3001 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
3004 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
3005 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
3006 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
3010 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
3011 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
3012 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
3013 (and therefore delayed).
3014 * Implement a real timer mechanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
3015 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
3016 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
3017 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
3018 - move some private declaration to the right place
3019 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
3020 - document the module
3021 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
3022 * Documentation improvements:
3023 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
3024 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
3026 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
3028 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
3030 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
3033 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
3034 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
3038 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
3039 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
3041 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
3042 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
3043 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
3044 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
3045 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
3046 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
3047 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
3048 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
3049 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
3050 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
3053 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
3054 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
3056 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
3059 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
3061 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
3063 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
3067 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
3068 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
3069 remote compilation helpers.
3071 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
3075 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
3077 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
3079 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
3080 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
3081 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
3082 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
3084 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
3086 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
3088 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
3092 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
3094 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
3095 through the function MSG_paje_output.
3096 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
3097 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
3098 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
3099 to write it in the changelog).
3100 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
3105 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
3106 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
3107 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
3109 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
3110 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
3111 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
3112 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
3114 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
3115 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
3116 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
3117 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
3119 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
3120 lookup time (for now).
3121 Use it in msg and trp.
3122 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
3123 headers between the gras components.
3124 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
3125 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
3126 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
3128 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
3130 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
3132 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
3134 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
3136 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
3137 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
3138 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
3139 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
3140 summary of the main changes.
3142 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
3143 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
3144 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
3145 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
3146 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
3147 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
3148 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
3149 in the documentation.
3151 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
3152 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
3153 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
3154 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
3155 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
3156 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
3158 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
3159 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
3160 with the previous version are :
3161 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
3162 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
3163 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
3164 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
3165 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
3166 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
3167 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
3168 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
3169 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
3171 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
3172 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
3173 dictionaries that are much faster).
3175 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
3177 *****************************************************************************
3178 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
3179 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
3180 *****************************************************************************
3183 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
3184 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
3185 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
3188 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
3191 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
3192 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
3193 performance on which you can execute some actions.
3195 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
3196 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
3197 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
3198 to 'make check' over there yet.
3200 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
3201 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
3202 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
3203 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
3204 trees. One day maybe...
3205 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
3206 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
3207 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
3208 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
3211 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
3212 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
3214 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
3215 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
3216 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
3217 run effectively faster than before now. :)
3219 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
3220 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
3222 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
3223 - Introduction of the remote errors.
3224 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
3225 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
3226 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
3227 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
3229 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
3230 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
3231 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
3232 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
3233 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
3234 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
3235 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
3236 - e_toto_t is an enum
3237 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
3239 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
3240 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
3241 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
3242 s_toto_t) is private.
3244 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
3245 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
3246 it changed for dynars.
3248 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
3249 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
3251 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
3252 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
3254 gras_dynar_get is dead.
3256 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
3257 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
3258 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
3260 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
3261 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
3263 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
3264 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
3266 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
3267 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
3268 far more lookup than setting.
3270 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
3272 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
3273 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
3275 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
3276 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
3277 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
3279 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
3280 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
3282 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
3283 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
3285 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
3286 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
3287 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
3289 - Header reorganization.
3290 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
3292 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
3293 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
3295 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
3296 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
3297 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
3298 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
3299 This simplify the API a lot.
3301 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
3302 - Re-enable raw sockets.
3303 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
3304 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
3307 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
3309 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
3310 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
3313 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
3314 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
3317 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
3318 - Finish the port to AIX.
3319 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
3320 function. No idea why)
3322 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
3323 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
3325 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
3326 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
3327 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
3329 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
3331 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
3332 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
3333 - Allow to document the logging categories.
3334 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
3336 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
3337 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
3338 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
3339 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
3340 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
3341 hopefully usefull message.
3342 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
3344 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
3345 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
3346 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
3348 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
3349 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
3350 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
3351 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
3353 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
3354 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
3355 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
3356 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
3357 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
3358 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
3359 - search not dichotomial yet
3360 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
3361 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
3362 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
3363 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
3364 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
3365 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
3366 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
3367 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
3368 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
3369 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
3370 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
3372 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
3373 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
3374 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
3377 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
3378 the ID of this type.
3380 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
3381 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
3382 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
3383 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
3384 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
3385 real life and on sg in simulation).
3386 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
3387 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
3388 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
3389 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
3390 that's damn hard in C (at least).
3391 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
3392 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
3393 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
3394 See comment in transport_private.h:71
3395 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
3396 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
3399 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
3400 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
3401 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
3402 - shorted the function names:
3403 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
3404 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
3405 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
3406 pop their size of the stack.
3407 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
3408 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
3409 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
3410 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
3412 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
3413 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
3414 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
3415 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
3417 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
3418 - understand it again
3419 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
3420 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
3421 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
3422 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
3424 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
3425 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
3427 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
3428 - Some documentation cleanups
3429 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
3430 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
3431 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
3432 gras -> . symbolic link
3433 - make distcheck is now successful
3435 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
3437 - Build shared library also
3438 - Install html doc to the right location
3439 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
3440 - build tests only on make check
3442 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
3444 - No major issue in previous version => change versioning schema
3445 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
3446 corresponding dataset.
3448 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
3450 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
3451 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
3452 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
3453 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
3455 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
3456 [autoconf mechanism]
3457 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
3458 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
3459 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
3460 Alignment is a serious matter)
3461 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
3462 constraints of each types)
3463 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
3465 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
3466 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
3467 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
3468 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
3469 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
3470 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
3471 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
3473 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
3474 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
3476 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
3477 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
3478 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
3480 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
3481 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
3482 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
3483 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
3484 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
3486 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
3487 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
3488 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
3489 generated as first byte.
3490 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
3491 architecture descriptions.
3492 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
3493 on those architectures.
3494 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
3496 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
3497 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
3499 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
3500 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
3501 settings will be separated
3502 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
3504 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
3506 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
3507 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
3508 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
3509 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
3511 [gras_stub_generator]
3512 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
3514 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
3515 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
3516 them all up in one shot)
3518 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
3519 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
3520 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
3522 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
3523 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
3524 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
3526 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
3527 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
3528 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
3529 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
3530 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
3531 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
3533 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
3535 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
3537 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
3538 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
3541 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
3542 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
3543 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
3545 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
3547 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
3549 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
3551 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
3552 - kill a few lines of dead code
3553 [Data description] Interface cleanup
3554 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
3555 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
3557 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
3558 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
3560 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
3561 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
3562 This is consistant with the dynar API.
3564 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
3566 - Porting to new standards.
3568 - interface cleanup.
3569 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
3570 pointers behind "ID".
3571 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
3572 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
3573 interleaved, but anyway.
3575 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
3577 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
3579 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
3580 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
3581 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
3583 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
3585 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
3587 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
3588 - send/receive function.
3589 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
3590 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
3591 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
3592 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
3593 - base types: int, float
3594 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
3595 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
3596 - chained list, graph with cycle
3597 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
3598 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
3602 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
3604 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
3606 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
3607 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
3609 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
3611 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
3612 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
3613 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
3615 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
3616 (the latter function is removed)
3617 [Conditional execution]
3618 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
3619 [Code reorganisation]
3620 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
3621 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
3622 its creation for now.
3624 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
3625 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since