1 SimGrid (3.12) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Interface improvement:
5 - Rename MSG_host_is_avail(h) to MSG_host_is_on(h)
6 - Massive cleanups in the functions related to the energy
8 * Interface improvement:
9 - Rename Host.isAvail() to Host.isOn()
13 - SIMIX_process_throw: raises an exception in a remote process
14 * Refactoring: Separate submodules
15 - libsmx: the public interface, as libc in a real system
16 - popping: the strange dance that converts a user request into a kernel handling
17 - smx_context_*: the virtualization mechanisms that embeed the user code
18 - smx_*: the handling of each simcalls
19 * Rename smx_action_t into smx_synchro_t, making explicit that these
20 things are used to synchronize processes with their environment.
21 For example, a communication is a sort of synchronization involving
22 the communicating processes (that may block until the exchange) and
23 the platform. The same can be said from computations, etc.
27 - 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.
28 - MPI_Keyval*, MPI_Attr* functions, as well as MPI_Comm_attr*, MPI_Type_attr* variants (C only, no Fortran support yet)
29 - MPI_Type_set_name, MPI_Type_get_name
30 - MPI_*_c2f and MPI_*_f2c functions
31 - MPI_Info_* functions (beware, get_nthkey may not follow the insertion order)
32 - MPI_Pack, MPI_Unpack and MPI_Pack_size functions
33 - Activate a lot of new tests from the mpich 3 testsuite
35 - Constant times can be injected inside MPI_Wtime and MPI_Test through options smpi/wtime and smpi/test
36 - InfiniBand network model added : Based on the works of Jerome Vienne (http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/jean-marc.vincent/index.html/PhD/Vienne.pdf )
37 - When smpi/display_timing is set, also display global simulation time and application times
38 * Collective communications
39 - 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
40 - 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/).
41 - Support for Rabenseifner Reduce/Allreduce algorithms (https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html)
43 - Replay now uses algorithms from wanted collective selector
44 - Replay can be used with SMP-aware algorithms
45 - Memory occupation of replay should now be contained (temporary buffers allocated in collective algorithms should be shared between processes)
46 - 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.
48 - [#17799] : have mpi_group_range_incl and mpi_group_range_excl better test some corner cases
49 - Correctly use loopback on fat-tree clusters
50 - Asynchronous small messages shouldn't trigger deadlocks anymore
53 - "Full" network optimization flag was broken since Surf++
54 - Better handling of precision flags in maxmin
55 - Fix bug causing sometimes "Impossible" errors
56 - Properly pass cluster properties to included hosts
57 * Improvement of the Energy plugin.
58 - Always update the consumption before returning that value
59 - New property: watt_off to denote the disipation when the host is off
62 - Add a xbt_heap_update function, to avoid costly xbt_heap_remove+xbt_heap_insert use
63 - Add a xbt wrapper for simcall_mutex_trylock (asked in [#17878])
64 - Add two new log appenders : rollfile and splitfile. Patch by Fabien Chaix.
67 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
69 SimGrid (3.11) stable; urgency=low
74 * Normalizing pointers addresses tool for better diff between logs
77 * Add cloud examples using new VMs
78 - examples/msg/cloud/two_tasks_vm.tesh
79 - examples/msg/cloud/simple_vm.tesh
80 - examples/java/cloud/cloud.tesh
81 - examples/java/cloud/migration/migration.tesh
82 * Add java surf examples:
83 - examples/java/surfPlugin/surf_plugin.tesh
84 - examples/java/reservationSurfPlugin/reservation_surf_plugin.tes
85 - examples/java/surfCpuModel/surf_cpu_model.tesh
86 * Add SMPI+MSG example:
87 - examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave/
92 - msg task destroy cancel test
93 - msg_host on/off test
94 * Move all tests in testsuite to teshsuite (adding tesh files)
95 * Restructure teshsuites
96 - one folder for each kind of test
97 * Restructure AddTests.cmake
99 - structure the order of tests (with sections)
102 * Add virtual machine
103 - creation of a VM on a PM
104 - migration of a VM from a PM to another PM
106 - MSG_process_join(msg_process_t process, double timeout)
107 - msg_bar_t MSG_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
108 - int MSG_barrier_wait(msg_bar_t barrier)
109 - void MSG_barrier_destroy(msg_bar_t barrier)
110 - msg_as_t MSG_environment_as_get_by_name(const char * name)
111 * New option "msg/debug_multiple_use" to help debugging when a task is used
114 - Improvements and finalization of MSG_storage, MSG_file APIs and their
116 - Increase code coverage in test suites
120 * Protect context stacks against stack overflow. The number of protected memory
121 pages allocated on the top of each stack (1 by default) can be configured
122 with the new command line option --cfg=contexts/guard_size:<value>.
123 * Simcalls are now generated by a python script that
124 - generates files included by SimGrid
125 - checks that all the functions exist, and proposes prototypes
127 - remove sem_destroy, file_set_data, comm_destroy, vm_set_state,
128 host_set_data, host_get_data
130 - simcall_process_join(smx_process_t process, double timeout)
131 * Fix bug where sleeping processing could not be suspended.
134 * Translate surf models from C to C++
135 - Generic classes for all models: Model, Resource, Action
136 - A generic interface for each kind of model (CPU, Network, Storage
137 Workstation, WorkstationVM)
139 * Translate surf routings from C to C++
140 * Add callbacks using sigc++ or boost::signals2
141 - Add callback functions for resource creation/destruction
142 - Add callback functions for action state change
143 - Handle Energy as a plugin
144 * Replace swag by boost::intrusive
145 * Add new routing models for clusters. For documentation, see
146 http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/platform.html#pf_cluster
147 - tori, with topology="TORUS" and topo_parameters="ndim1,ndim2,...,ndimn"
148 parameters for cluster tag
149 - Fat trees, with topology="FAT_TREE" and
150 topo_parameters="h;m1,...,mh;w1,...,wh;p1,...,ph" parameters for cluster tag
151 - see examples/platforms/torus_cluster.xml and
152 examples/platforms/fat_tree_cluster.xml
156 * Hostfiles support host:nb_processes construct to deploy several processes on
158 * Collective communication algorithms should not crash if used with
159 improper number of nodes and report the error.
160 * SMPI now partially supports MPI_Topologies : MPI_Cart_create, MPI_Cart_shift,
161 MPI_Cart_rank, MPI_Cart_get, MPI_Cart_coords, MPI_Cartdim_get,
162 MPI_Dims_create, MPI_Cart_sub are supported.
163 * New interface to use SMPI programmatically (still depends on MSG for
164 some parts, see examples/smpi/smpi_msg_masterslave) :
165 - SMPI_app_instance_register(const char *name, xbt_main_func_t code,
169 * Global variables privatization in MPI executables is now performed at runtime
170 with the option smpi/privatize_global_variables (default:no).
171 Limitations : Linux/BSD only, with mmap enabled. Global variables inside
172 dynamic libraries loaded by the application are not privatized (static
173 linking with these libraries is advised in this case)
176 * Options defined in XML work correctly now.
179 * New cmake option, enable_lib_in_jar, to control whether native libraries are
180 copied into simgrid.jar or not (ON by default). Use this option if you want
181 to reduce the size of the installed simgrid.jar, *and* the native libraries
182 are kept installed elsewhere.
183 * Surf binding with SWIG (code generated in maintainer mode only):
184 - plugin to handle callbacks
185 - CPU model only for the moment
188 * Supernovae build mode is definitively removed. It was used to improve
189 inlining and inter-module optimizations. It is nowadays superseded by
190 link-time optimizations commonly available in compilers.
191 * Update ns-3 find lib. Bindings for ns-3 should work again now.
192 * Add boost dependency for surf++
193 * Add new macro for tests
194 - ADD_TESH(name <tesh_args>)
195 - ADD_TESH_FACTORIES(name "thread;ucontext;raw" <tesh_args>)
199 - xbt_bar_t XBT_barrier_init(unsigned int count)
200 - int XBT_barrier_wait(xbt_bar_t barrier)
201 - void XBT_barrier_destroy(xbt_bar_t barrier)
202 * Make the xbt_os_time module public
204 -- Sat May 31 22:39:38 CEST 2014 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
206 SimGrid (3.10) stable; urgency=low
208 The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free.
211 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
212 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
213 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
214 * Bug fix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
215 cached in the Java world
218 * Dramatically change the way files are handled. API and internals changed, but
219 this part of MSG was not considered as production grade either.
220 * Add explicit synchronization facilities through semaphores
221 * Add a new function MSG_host_get_process_list()
222 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/msg/energy/ for details)
225 * SMPI is now included directly in the libsimgrid as the windows
226 linker doesn't force us on splitting it anymore.
227 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
228 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
229 in the original application.
230 - Traces now rely on the same MPI data type as the application (MPI_BYTE was
231 used until now). Multiple data types can now be used in a trace.
232 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
234 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
235 - Gatherv collective is now supported
236 - SimGrid (SMPI for now) can generate replay traces as well. Option -trace-ti
237 of smpirun outputs time independent traces for the current run. One file
238 is created per process. If too many processes are simulated, this behavior
239 can be changed to one file for all processes by using the
240 tracing/smpi/format/ti_one_file flag
241 * smpirun generates the host file if needed (with given host count and platform)
242 * Integration of more than 100 STAR-MPI, MPICH, OpenMPI collective algorithms
243 - allows to select one in particular with --cfg=smpi/coll_name:algorithm
244 - allows to use the decision logic of OpenMPI(1.7) or MPICH(3.0.4) by setting
245 --cfg=smpi/coll_selector:(mpich/ompi)
246 * Support for new functions : MPI_Issend, MPI_Ssend, Commutative operations in
248 * Add a --cfg:tracing/smpi/internals option, to trace internal communications
249 happening inside a collective SMPI call.
250 * Fix the behavior of complex data types handling.
251 * Make MPI_Wtime another synchronization point to take computations into
253 * Replace MPICH-1 test suite by the one from MPICH 3.0.4. Can be built using
254 enable_smpi_MPICH3_testsuite flag in cmake. Run with ctest.
255 * Add all missing Fortran bindings, SMPI should work with Fortran 90
256 (no privatization of global variables yet)
257 * Preliminary DVFS support (see examples/smpi/energy/ for details)
260 * Verification of liveness properties is now available for SMPI applications
261 (in addition to MSG applications)
262 * Bugged examples using SMPI in examples/smpi/mc/
263 * Add --cfg=model-check/visited option. Allows the verification of infinite
264 programs. Detection of loops in the execution thanks to the system state
265 comparison and reduction of the state space to explore. Can be combined with
266 DPOR for safety properties.
269 * Allow to change SimGrid configuration (see --help) within the code
270 thanks to SD_config() as it can be done in MSG.
271 * Add a new function SD_task_set_amount() upon user request.
274 * Handle units for values (10ms, 10kiloflops, 10Bps, 1GB, ...)
275 * Remove rule based routing (no more PCRE dependency)
276 * Add a limiter_link option to cluster tag, to specify a maximum reachable
277 bandwidth in fullduplex mode when it is less than twice the nominal bandwidth.
278 * Add a loopback_bw and loopback_lat options to cluster tag.
279 * Fix the peer tag that could not be mixed with other AS within a Vivaldi
280 routing. Now peers are encapsulated in an AS and have their own private
281 router but this is transparent.
284 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
285 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
286 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
287 * New type: xbt_cfg_elm_boolean.
288 * Allow to use yes/no for boolean configuration options in the command line.
289 * Allow to disable SimGrid cleanups at exit from command line option.
290 There are situations where one may want a simulation to end with an exit.
291 Unfortunately, calling exit may cause SimGrid to segfault, which is quite
292 annoying when scripting around the simulator. Adding a
293 --cfg=clean_atexit:no allows to circumvent this issue.
296 * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
297 There is no known memory leaks anymore, in all of our 600+ tests.
298 * New command line option --version, to get SimGrid version information.
299 Packagers may want to add extra words to SIMGRID_VERSION_EXTRA defined in
301 * Supernovae builds are deprecated, and expected to be removed in the next
304 -- Sun Nov 17 00:26:44 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
306 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
308 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
310 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
313 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
314 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
315 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
316 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
317 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
318 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
319 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
320 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
321 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
324 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
325 splitting it was really not helping our users.
326 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
327 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
328 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
331 * Now works on Windows too!
332 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
335 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
336 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
337 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
338 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
339 a control dependency.
340 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
341 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
345 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
346 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
347 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
348 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
352 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
353 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
354 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
355 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
356 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
357 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
358 trace is not at time 0.
361 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
362 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
366 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
367 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
369 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
370 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
373 * Fix the lua deployment:
374 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
375 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
378 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
380 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
382 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
384 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
387 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
389 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
391 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
393 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
396 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
397 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
398 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
399 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
400 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
401 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
402 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
403 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
404 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
405 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
406 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
408 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
409 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
410 points in the library helps us).
411 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
412 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
413 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
416 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
417 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
420 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
421 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
423 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
424 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
425 purpose ("on" by default).
428 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
429 survive the host they are running onto.
430 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
431 executing comes back.
432 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
433 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
436 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
437 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
439 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
440 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
441 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
442 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
443 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
444 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
445 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
447 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
448 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
449 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
450 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
452 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
453 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
454 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
455 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
457 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
458 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
459 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
460 (from their beginning)
461 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
465 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
466 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
467 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
468 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
469 hindexed and structs)
470 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
471 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
472 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
473 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
474 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
475 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
476 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
477 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
480 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
481 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
482 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
483 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
484 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
485 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
489 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
490 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
491 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
492 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
493 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
494 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
495 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
498 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
499 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
500 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
501 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
502 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
504 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
506 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
509 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
510 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
511 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
514 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
517 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
518 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
519 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
522 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
525 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
526 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
527 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
528 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
530 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
531 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
532 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
533 feature, any help would be really welcome.
535 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
537 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
539 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
542 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
543 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
544 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
545 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
546 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
547 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
548 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
549 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
550 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
551 Accuracy should be improved this way.
552 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
553 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
554 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
555 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
556 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
557 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
558 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
559 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
560 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
561 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
562 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
563 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
564 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
565 network/coordinates, and document it
566 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
567 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
568 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
569 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
570 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
573 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
574 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
575 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
576 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
577 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
578 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
579 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
580 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
581 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
582 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
583 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
584 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
587 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
588 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
589 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
590 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
591 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
592 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
593 execution mode (raw contexts only)
594 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
595 synchronization structures.
596 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
597 in very specific conditions.
600 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
601 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
602 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
603 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
604 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
605 This is released anyway because YMMV.
608 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
609 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
613 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
616 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
617 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
618 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
619 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
620 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
621 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
622 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
623 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
624 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
625 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
626 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
627 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
628 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
629 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
630 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
631 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
634 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
635 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
636 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
637 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
638 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
641 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
642 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
643 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
647 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
648 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
650 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
651 don't exists anymore.
652 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
654 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
655 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
656 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
657 deprecated in the next release.
658 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
659 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
661 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
662 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
663 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
664 element is not found.
666 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
667 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
669 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
670 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
671 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
672 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
673 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
674 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
675 necessary at this point to get MC working.
677 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
678 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
680 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
682 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
684 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
687 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
688 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
689 (portable) ones when possible.
690 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
691 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
692 * Update the XML platforms:
693 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
694 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
695 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
697 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
698 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
699 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
701 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
702 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
705 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
706 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
707 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
708 its compilation burden
709 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
710 * Port to Windows 64 bits
711 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
712 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
713 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
714 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
715 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
716 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
719 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
721 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
723 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
726 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
727 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
728 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
729 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
730 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
733 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
735 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
737 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
739 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
742 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
743 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
744 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
746 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
747 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
749 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
750 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
751 but it may soon become the case.
754 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
755 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
756 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
757 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
758 local static variables.
759 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
763 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
764 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
765 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
767 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
768 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
769 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
770 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
772 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
773 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
774 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
775 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
776 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
777 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
778 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
779 index of a finished communication (if any).
780 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
783 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
784 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
785 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
786 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
788 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
789 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
790 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
791 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
792 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
793 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
794 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
795 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
798 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
800 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
801 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
802 do the work in an efficient manner.
803 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
804 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
805 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
806 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
807 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
808 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
809 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
810 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
811 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
812 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
814 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
818 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
819 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
820 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
821 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
822 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
823 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
824 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
825 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
826 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
827 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
828 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
829 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
831 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
832 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
836 * New configuration options
837 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
838 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
839 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
840 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
841 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
842 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
843 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
845 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
846 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
847 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
848 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
849 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
850 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
851 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
852 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
853 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
855 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
856 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
857 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
858 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
859 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
860 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
861 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
864 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
865 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
866 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
867 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
868 could rely on that macro to adapt.
869 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
870 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
871 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
872 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
873 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
875 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
877 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
880 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
881 Check SIN#1 for more details.
884 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
885 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
886 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
887 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
888 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
889 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
890 * See also src/smpi/README
895 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
896 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
897 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
898 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
899 same for MSG and SimDag.
900 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
902 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
903 where color must be in the following format
904 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
905 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
906 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
908 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
909 - The following command-line options are supported:
910 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
911 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
912 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
913 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
914 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
915 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
916 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
917 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
918 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
919 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
921 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
922 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
923 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
924 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
925 - Collective operations are traced with states
926 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
927 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
928 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
929 is compiled with tracing enabled)
930 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
931 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
932 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
933 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
934 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
935 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
936 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
937 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
940 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
941 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
942 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
943 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
944 * New function: MSG_set_function
945 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
946 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
948 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
949 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
950 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
953 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
954 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
955 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
956 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
957 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
958 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
959 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
960 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
961 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
962 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
963 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
964 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
966 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
967 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
968 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
969 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
970 you want to use this routing scheme.
971 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
972 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
973 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
974 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
975 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
976 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
977 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
978 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
979 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
980 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
982 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
983 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
984 results when exchanging small messages.
985 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
986 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
987 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
990 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
991 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
992 dependencies are satisfied) state.
993 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
994 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
995 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
996 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
997 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
998 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
999 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
1000 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
1001 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
1002 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
1003 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
1004 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
1005 installation of the graphviz library.
1006 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
1007 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
1008 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
1009 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
1010 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
1011 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
1012 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
1013 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
1014 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
1015 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
1016 using a Min-Min strategy.
1017 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
1018 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
1020 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
1021 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
1024 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
1025 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
1026 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
1027 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
1028 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
1029 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
1030 Please use (proper) visualization instead
1033 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
1034 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
1035 independent segments of malloc)
1036 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
1037 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
1038 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
1039 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
1040 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
1041 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
1042 uninitialized areas during expand.
1043 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
1044 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
1045 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
1046 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
1047 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
1050 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
1051 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
1052 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
1053 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
1054 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
1055 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
1056 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
1057 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
1059 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
1060 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
1061 * Port to windows ( TM :)
1062 * Fix the 'make install' target.
1063 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
1064 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
1065 'make package' compiles a binary archive
1066 * Compile java files only on need
1067 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
1068 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
1069 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
1072 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
1073 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
1074 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
1076 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
1078 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
1080 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
1081 This is a bug fixes release only.
1085 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
1088 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
1089 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
1090 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
1093 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
1094 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
1097 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
1098 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
1099 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
1101 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
1103 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
1105 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
1107 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
1108 ~> bindings were greatly improved
1109 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
1111 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
1112 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
1115 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
1117 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
1118 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
1119 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
1120 Use send/receive instead.
1121 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
1122 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
1123 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
1124 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
1125 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
1126 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
1127 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
1128 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
1129 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
1130 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
1131 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
1132 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
1133 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
1134 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
1136 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
1137 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
1138 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
1139 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
1140 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
1141 such thing for that specific task.
1142 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
1143 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
1144 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
1145 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
1146 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
1148 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
1149 the deprecated put/get interface.
1150 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
1151 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
1153 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
1154 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
1155 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
1156 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
1158 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
1159 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
1160 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
1161 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
1162 - Fix implementation of collective operations
1163 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
1165 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
1166 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
1167 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
1168 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
1169 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
1171 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
1173 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
1174 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
1175 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
1176 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
1177 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
1178 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
1179 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
1180 * Bug fixes include:
1181 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
1182 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
1183 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
1184 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
1185 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
1187 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
1188 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
1189 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
1190 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
1191 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
1192 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
1194 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
1195 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
1196 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
1197 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
1198 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
1199 * Refactoring context stuff:
1200 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
1201 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
1202 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
1204 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
1206 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
1207 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
1208 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
1209 o network_model -> network/model
1210 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
1211 * New configuration variables:
1212 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
1213 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
1214 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
1215 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
1216 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
1217 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
1219 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
1220 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
1221 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
1222 When so, you need to use the following functions
1223 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
1224 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1225 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
1226 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
1227 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
1229 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
1230 Tracing for Visualization:
1231 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
1232 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
1233 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
1234 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
1235 (among other functions).
1236 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
1237 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
1238 traces with the Triva tool is written.
1239 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
1242 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
1243 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
1244 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
1245 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1246 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
1247 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
1248 * Added code coverage tests.
1249 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
1251 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
1253 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
1255 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
1257 Models improvements:
1258 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
1259 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
1260 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
1261 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
1262 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
1263 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
1264 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
1265 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
1266 actions on SURF kernel.
1267 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
1268 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
1269 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
1270 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
1271 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
1272 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
1273 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
1274 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
1275 availability trace files.
1276 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
1277 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
1278 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
1279 faster than the old CPU models.
1280 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
1281 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
1282 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
1283 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
1286 ******************************************
1287 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
1288 ******************************************
1289 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
1290 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
1291 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
1292 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
1293 of simulations in some cases.
1294 * The new network model will change simulations!
1295 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
1296 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
1297 Sorry for the inconvenience.
1300 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
1301 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
1302 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
1303 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
1305 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
1306 amd64 to confirm that gain.
1309 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
1310 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
1313 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
1314 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
1315 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
1316 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
1317 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
1318 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
1319 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
1322 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
1323 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
1324 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
1325 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
1326 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
1327 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
1328 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
1329 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
1330 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
1331 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
1332 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
1333 about the task in dotty format
1334 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
1335 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
1337 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
1338 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
1339 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
1340 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
1341 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
1342 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
1343 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
1346 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
1349 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
1350 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
1351 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
1352 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
1353 thread (used in SG only for now)
1354 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
1357 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
1358 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
1359 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
1360 the comm should be done.
1361 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
1362 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
1363 use the private link instead)
1364 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
1365 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
1366 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
1367 to make it less stupid
1368 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
1369 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
1370 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
1371 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
1372 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1373 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1374 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1375 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1376 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1377 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1378 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1379 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1380 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1382 Portability report of this version:
1383 * Main portability targets:
1384 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1385 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1386 - mac leopard on i386
1387 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1388 but nothing critical.
1389 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1391 Timing report of this version:
1392 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1393 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1394 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1396 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1398 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1400 The "Need for Speed" release.
1402 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1403 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1405 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1406 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1407 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1409 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1410 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1412 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1413 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1414 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1415 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1416 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1417 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1419 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1420 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1421 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1422 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1423 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1425 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1426 alone. We have to choose between:
1427 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1428 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1429 - live with low performance
1430 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1432 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1434 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1436 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1438 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1439 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1442 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1443 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1444 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1445 => kill now useless network_card concept
1446 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1447 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1448 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1449 - Add three new models:
1450 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1451 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1452 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1453 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1454 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1456 * Simplify model declaration
1457 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1458 - Factorize stuff between models:
1461 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1462 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1463 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1464 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1465 - Rename model methods:
1466 action_free ~> action_unref
1467 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1468 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1469 - Change model methods into functions :
1470 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1472 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1473 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1474 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1475 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1476 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1478 * Improve the action object model
1479 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1480 initialization in generic_action part.
1482 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1483 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1486 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1487 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1488 => a lot of code was factorized
1489 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1490 - simpler API for the context factory
1491 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1492 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1493 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1494 and the code is a lot more readable.
1497 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1498 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1499 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1500 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1502 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1503 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1504 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1505 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1507 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1508 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1511 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1512 Shout out if you used it.
1515 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1519 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1520 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1521 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1522 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1523 * Remove the context module
1525 Portability report of this version:
1526 * Main portability targets:
1527 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1528 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1529 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1530 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1531 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1532 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1533 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1535 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1536 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1537 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1538 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1541 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1542 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1543 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1545 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1546 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1548 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1551 Timing report of this version:
1552 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1553 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1554 investigating this for next release.
1556 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1558 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1561 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1562 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1565 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1566 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1567 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1568 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1569 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1570 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1571 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1572 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1573 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1574 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1575 clean on that point too ;)
1576 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1577 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1578 This helps debugging.
1579 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1583 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1584 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1585 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1586 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1587 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1588 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1589 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1590 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1591 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1592 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1594 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1595 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1596 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1597 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1598 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1599 - failure during communications were not working
1602 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1603 process in the log messages.
1604 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1605 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1608 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1611 * Massive internal cleanups:
1612 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1613 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1615 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1616 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1617 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1618 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1620 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1621 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1622 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1623 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1624 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1627 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1628 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1629 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1632 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1633 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1634 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1635 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1639 Portability report of this version:
1640 * Main portability targets:
1641 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1642 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1643 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1644 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1645 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1646 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1647 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1650 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1651 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1652 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1653 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1654 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1655 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1658 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1659 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1660 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1662 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1665 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1667 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1671 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1672 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1674 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1677 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1678 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1679 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1681 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1682 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1684 **************************************
1685 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1686 **************************************
1687 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1688 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1689 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1690 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1692 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1693 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1695 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1696 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1697 output match an expected output [Mt].
1699 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1700 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1701 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1703 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1704 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1705 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1708 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1709 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1710 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1711 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1712 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1714 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1715 linux ones too) [Mt]
1716 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1717 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1718 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1719 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1722 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1723 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1724 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1725 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1726 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1727 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1728 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1729 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1730 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1732 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1733 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1734 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1735 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1736 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1737 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1739 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1740 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1741 root directly) [Mt].
1744 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1745 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1746 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1747 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1748 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1749 was thus designed [AL].
1750 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1751 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1753 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1755 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1756 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1757 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1760 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1762 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1763 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1764 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1766 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1768 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1772 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1773 least MSG is usable.
1775 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1776 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1777 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1778 you can write (and must)
1779 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1780 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1781 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1782 - Impacted functions:
1783 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1784 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1785 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1786 (just like the main() function)
1788 GRAS new features and improvements:
1789 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1790 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1791 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1792 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1794 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1795 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1796 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1797 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1798 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1799 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1800 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1801 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1802 No big deal usually.
1803 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1804 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1805 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1806 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1807 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1810 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1811 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1812 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1813 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1814 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1815 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1818 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1819 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1820 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1823 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1824 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1825 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1826 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1827 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1831 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1832 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1833 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1835 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1836 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1837 and allocating new ones.
1839 Documentation update:
1840 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1841 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1842 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1843 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1844 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1845 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1846 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1847 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1849 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1850 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1852 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1853 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1854 o Part 2: Message passing
1855 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1856 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1857 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1858 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1859 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1860 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1861 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1862 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1863 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1864 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1865 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1866 - A HOWTO section containing:
1867 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1868 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1869 check the examples which are still here.
1871 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1873 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1877 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1878 with these versions. [Vince]
1881 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1882 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1883 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1884 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1885 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1888 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1889 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1890 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1891 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1892 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1893 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1894 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1897 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1898 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1899 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1900 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1901 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1903 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1904 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1907 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1908 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1909 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1910 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1911 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1912 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1913 correctly handled). [AL]
1914 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1918 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1919 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1921 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1922 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1924 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1925 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1927 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1928 within a given period.
1929 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1930 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1931 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1932 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1933 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1937 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1938 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1939 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1940 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1941 * Peer management module:
1942 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1945 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1946 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1947 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1948 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1949 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1950 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1951 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1952 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1953 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1954 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1955 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1956 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1957 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1958 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1959 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1960 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1961 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1963 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1964 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1965 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1967 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1969 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1972 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1973 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1974 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1975 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1976 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1977 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1978 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1979 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1980 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1981 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1982 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1983 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1985 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1986 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1987 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1988 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1989 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1990 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1991 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1994 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1995 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1998 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1999 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
2002 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
2003 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
2004 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
2005 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
2007 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
2008 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
2010 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
2011 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
2012 to be given thru annotations.
2013 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
2014 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
2016 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
2018 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
2019 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
2022 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
2023 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
2026 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
2027 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
2028 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
2029 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
2031 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
2032 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
2033 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
2034 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
2036 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
2037 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
2038 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
2039 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
2040 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
2041 everything is arrived
2042 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
2044 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
2046 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
2047 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
2048 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
2049 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
2050 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
2051 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
2054 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
2055 doing as few data copy as possible.
2057 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
2058 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
2059 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
2060 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
2062 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
2064 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
2066 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
2069 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
2070 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
2071 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
2073 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
2075 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
2081 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
2082 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
2083 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
2084 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
2087 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
2088 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
2089 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
2090 network model) if none was precised.
2093 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
2095 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
2096 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
2097 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
2098 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
2099 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
2100 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
2101 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
2103 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
2104 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
2106 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
2107 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
2109 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
2110 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
2111 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
2112 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
2113 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
2114 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
2116 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
2117 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
2119 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
2121 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
2125 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
2126 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
2129 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
2130 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
2132 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
2135 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
2137 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
2138 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
2141 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
2142 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
2143 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
2144 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
2145 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
2146 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
2147 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
2148 in place before [MQ]
2151 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
2152 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
2153 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
2154 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
2155 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
2156 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
2157 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
2158 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
2159 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
2162 GRAS (minor cleanups)
2163 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
2166 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
2167 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
2169 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
2170 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
2171 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
2172 meaning in networking community.
2175 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
2176 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
2177 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
2178 * New module: bandwidth
2179 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
2181 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
2183 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
2185 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
2189 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
2192 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
2195 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
2196 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
2198 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
2199 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
2200 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
2204 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
2205 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
2206 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
2207 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
2208 you need on the simulator.
2212 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
2213 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
2214 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
2215 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
2216 needed by MSG examples complications
2217 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
2220 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
2221 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
2222 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
2226 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
2227 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
2228 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
2229 (and therefore delayed).
2230 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
2231 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
2232 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
2233 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
2234 - move some private declaration to the right place
2235 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
2236 - document the module
2237 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
2238 * Documentation improvements:
2239 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
2240 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
2242 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
2244 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
2246 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
2249 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
2250 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
2254 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
2255 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
2257 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
2258 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
2259 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
2260 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
2261 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
2262 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
2263 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
2264 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
2265 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
2266 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
2269 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
2270 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
2272 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
2275 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
2277 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
2279 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
2283 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
2284 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
2285 remote compilation helpers.
2287 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
2291 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
2293 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
2295 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
2296 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
2297 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
2298 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
2300 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
2302 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
2304 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
2308 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
2310 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
2311 through the function MSG_paje_output.
2312 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
2313 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
2314 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
2315 to write it in the changelog).
2316 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
2321 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
2322 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
2323 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
2325 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
2326 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
2327 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
2328 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
2330 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
2331 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
2332 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
2333 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
2335 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
2336 lookup time (for now).
2337 Use it in msg and trp.
2338 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
2339 headers between the gras components.
2340 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
2341 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
2342 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
2344 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
2346 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
2348 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
2350 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
2352 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
2353 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
2354 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
2355 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
2356 summary of the main changes.
2358 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
2359 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
2360 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
2361 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
2362 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
2363 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
2364 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
2365 in the documentation.
2367 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
2368 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
2369 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
2370 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
2371 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
2372 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2374 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2375 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2376 with the previous version are :
2377 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2378 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2379 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2380 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2381 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2382 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2383 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2384 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2385 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2387 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2388 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2389 dictionaries that are much faster).
2391 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2393 *****************************************************************************
2394 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2395 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2396 *****************************************************************************
2399 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2400 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2401 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2404 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2407 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2408 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2409 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2411 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2412 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2413 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2414 to 'make check' over there yet.
2416 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2417 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2418 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2419 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2420 trees. One day maybe...
2421 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2422 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2423 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2424 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2427 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2428 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2430 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2431 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2432 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2433 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2435 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2436 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2438 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2439 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2440 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2441 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2442 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2443 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2445 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2446 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2447 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2448 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2449 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2450 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2451 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2452 - e_toto_t is an enum
2453 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2455 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2456 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2457 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2458 s_toto_t) is private.
2460 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2461 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2462 it changed for dynars.
2464 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2465 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2467 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2468 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2470 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2472 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2473 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2474 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2476 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2477 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2479 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2480 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2482 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2483 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2484 far more lookup than setting.
2486 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2488 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2489 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2491 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2492 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2493 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2495 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2496 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2498 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2499 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2501 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2502 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2503 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2505 - Header reorganization.
2506 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2508 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2509 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2511 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2512 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2513 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2514 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2515 This simplify the API a lot.
2517 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2518 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2519 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2520 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2523 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2525 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2526 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2529 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2530 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2533 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2534 - Finish the port to AIX.
2535 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2536 function. No idea why)
2538 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2539 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2541 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2542 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2543 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2545 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2547 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2548 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2549 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2550 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2552 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2553 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2554 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2555 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2556 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2557 hopefully usefull message.
2558 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2560 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2561 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2562 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2564 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2565 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2566 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2567 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2569 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2570 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2571 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2572 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2573 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2574 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2575 - search not dichotomial yet
2576 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2577 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2578 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2579 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2580 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2581 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2582 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2583 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2584 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2585 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2586 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2588 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2589 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2590 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2593 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2594 the ID of this type.
2596 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2597 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2598 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2599 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2600 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2601 real life and on sg in simulation).
2602 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2603 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2604 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2605 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2606 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2607 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2608 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2609 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2610 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2611 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2612 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2615 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2616 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2617 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2618 - shorted the function names:
2619 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2620 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2621 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2622 pop their size of the stack.
2623 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2624 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2625 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2626 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2628 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2629 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2630 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2631 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2633 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2634 - understand it again
2635 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2636 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2637 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2638 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2640 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2641 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2643 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2644 - Some documentation cleanups
2645 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2646 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2647 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2648 gras -> . symbolic link
2649 - make distcheck is now successful
2651 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2653 - Build shared library also
2654 - Install html doc to the right location
2655 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2656 - build tests only on make check
2658 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2660 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2661 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2662 corresponding dataset.
2664 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2666 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2667 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2668 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2669 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2671 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2672 [autoconf mechanism]
2673 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2674 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2675 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2676 Alignment is a serious matter)
2677 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2678 constraints of each types)
2679 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2681 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2682 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2683 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2684 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2685 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2686 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2687 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2689 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2690 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2692 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2693 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2694 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2696 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2697 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2698 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2699 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2700 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2702 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2703 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2704 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2705 generated as first byte.
2706 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2707 architecture descriptions.
2708 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2709 on those architectures.
2710 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2712 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2713 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2715 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2716 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2717 settings will be separated
2718 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2720 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2722 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2723 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2724 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2725 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2727 [gras_stub_generator]
2728 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2730 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2731 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2732 them all up in one shot)
2734 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2735 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2736 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2738 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2739 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2740 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2742 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2743 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2744 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2745 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2746 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2747 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2749 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2751 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2753 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2754 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2757 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2758 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2759 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2761 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2763 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2765 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2767 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2768 - kill a few lines of dead code
2769 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2770 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2771 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2773 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2774 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2776 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2777 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2778 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2780 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2782 - Porting to new standards.
2784 - interface cleanup.
2785 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2786 pointers behind "ID".
2787 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2788 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2789 interleaved, but anyway.
2791 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2793 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2795 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2796 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2797 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
2799 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2801 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2803 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2804 - send/receive function.
2805 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2806 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2807 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2808 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2809 - base types: int, float
2810 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2811 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2812 - chained list, graph with cycle
2813 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2814 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2818 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2820 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2822 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2823 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2825 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2827 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2828 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2829 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2831 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2832 (the latter function is removed)
2833 [Conditional execution]
2834 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2835 [Code reorganisation]
2836 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2837 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2838 its creation for now.
2840 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2841 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since