1 SimGrid (3.7.1) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
5 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
6 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
9 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
12 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
13 * Fix compilation on Macs.
14 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
16 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
18 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
20 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
23 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
24 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
25 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
26 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
27 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
28 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
29 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
30 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
31 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
32 Accuracy should be improved this way.
33 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
34 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
35 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
36 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
37 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
38 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
39 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
40 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
41 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
42 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
43 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
44 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
45 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
46 network/coordinates, and document it
47 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
48 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
49 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
50 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
51 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
54 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
55 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
56 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
57 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
58 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
59 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
60 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
61 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
62 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
63 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
64 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
65 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
68 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
69 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
70 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
71 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
72 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
73 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
74 execution mode (raw contexts only)
75 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
76 synchronization structures.
77 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
78 in very specific conditions.
81 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
82 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
83 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
84 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
85 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
86 This is released anyway because YMMV.
89 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
90 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
94 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
97 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
98 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
99 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
100 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
101 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
102 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
103 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
104 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
105 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
106 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
107 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
108 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
109 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
110 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
111 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
112 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
115 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
116 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
117 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
118 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
119 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
122 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
123 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
124 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
128 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
129 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
131 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg.simix,xbt}-log=...
132 don't exists anymore.
133 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
135 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
136 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
137 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
138 deprecated in the next release.
139 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
140 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
142 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
143 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
144 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
145 element is not found.
147 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
148 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
150 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
151 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
152 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
153 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
154 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
155 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
156 necessary at this point to get MC working.
158 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
159 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
161 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
163 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
165 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
168 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
169 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
170 (portable) ones when possible.
171 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
172 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
173 * Update the XML platforms:
174 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
175 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
176 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
178 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
179 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
180 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
182 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
183 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
186 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
187 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
188 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
189 its compilation burden
190 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
191 * Port to Windows 64 bits
192 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
193 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
194 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
195 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
196 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
197 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
200 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
202 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
204 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
207 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
208 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
209 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
210 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
211 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
214 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
216 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
218 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
220 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
223 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
224 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
225 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
227 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
228 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
230 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
231 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
232 but it may soon become the case.
235 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
236 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
237 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
238 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
239 local static variables.
240 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
244 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
245 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
246 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
248 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
249 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
250 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
251 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
253 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
254 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
255 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
256 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
257 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
258 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
259 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
260 index of a finished communication (if any).
261 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
264 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
265 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
266 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
267 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
269 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
270 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
271 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
272 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
273 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
274 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
275 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
276 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
279 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
281 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
282 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
283 do the work in an efficient manner.
284 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
285 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
286 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
287 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
288 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
289 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
290 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
291 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
292 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
293 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
295 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
299 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
300 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
301 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
302 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
303 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
304 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
305 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
306 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
307 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
308 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
309 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
310 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
312 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
313 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
317 * New configuration options
318 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
319 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
320 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
321 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
322 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
323 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
324 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
326 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
327 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
328 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
329 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
330 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
331 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
332 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
333 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
334 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
336 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
337 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
338 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
339 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
340 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
341 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
342 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
345 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
346 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
347 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
348 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
349 could rely on that macro to adapt.
350 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
351 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
352 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
353 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
354 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
356 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
358 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
361 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
362 Check SIN#1 for more details.
365 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
366 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
367 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
368 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
369 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
370 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
371 * See also src/smpi/README
376 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
377 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
378 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
379 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
380 same for MSG and SimDag.
381 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
383 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
384 where color must be in the following format
385 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
386 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
387 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
389 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
390 - The following command-line options are supported:
391 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
392 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
393 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
394 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
395 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
396 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
397 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
398 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
399 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
400 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
402 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
403 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
404 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
405 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
406 - Collective operations are traced with states
407 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
408 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
409 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
410 is compiled with tracing enabled)
411 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
412 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
413 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
414 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
415 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
416 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
417 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
418 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
421 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
422 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
423 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
424 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
425 * New function: MSG_set_function
426 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
427 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
429 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
430 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
431 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
434 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
435 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
436 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
437 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
438 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
439 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
440 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
441 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
442 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
443 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
444 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
445 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
447 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
448 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
449 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
450 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
451 you want to use this routing scheme.
452 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
453 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
454 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
455 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
456 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
457 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
458 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
459 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
460 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
461 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
463 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
464 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
465 results when exchanging small messages.
466 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
467 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
468 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
471 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
472 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
473 dependencies are satisfied) state.
474 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
475 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
476 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
477 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
478 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
479 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
480 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
481 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
482 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
483 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
484 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
485 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
486 installation of the graphviz library.
487 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
488 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
489 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
490 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
491 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
492 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
493 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
494 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
495 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
496 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
497 using a Min-Min strategy.
498 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
499 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
501 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
502 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
505 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
506 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
507 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
508 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
509 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
510 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
511 Please use (proper) visualization instead
514 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
515 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
516 independent segments of malloc)
517 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
518 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
519 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
520 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
521 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
522 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
523 uninitialized areas during expand.
524 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
525 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
526 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
527 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
528 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
531 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
532 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
533 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
534 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
535 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
536 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
537 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
538 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
540 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
541 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
542 * Port to windows ( TM :)
543 * Fix the 'make install' target.
544 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
545 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
546 'make package' compiles a binary archive
547 * Compile java files only on need
548 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
549 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
550 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
553 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
554 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
555 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
557 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
559 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
561 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
562 This is a bug fixes release only.
566 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
569 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
570 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
571 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
574 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
575 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
578 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
579 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
580 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
582 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
584 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
586 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
588 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
589 ~> bindings were greatly improved
590 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
592 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
593 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
596 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
598 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
599 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
600 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
601 Use send/receive instead.
602 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
603 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
604 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
605 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
606 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
607 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
608 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
609 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
610 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
611 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
612 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
613 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
614 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
615 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
617 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
618 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
619 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
620 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
621 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
622 such thing for that specific task.
623 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
624 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
625 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
626 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
627 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
629 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
630 the deprecated put/get interface.
631 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
632 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
634 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
635 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
636 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
637 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
639 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
640 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
641 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
642 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
643 - Fix implementation of collective operations
644 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
646 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
647 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
648 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
649 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
650 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
652 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
654 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
655 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
656 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
657 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
658 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
659 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
660 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
662 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
663 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
664 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
665 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
666 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
668 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
669 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
670 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
671 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
672 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
673 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
675 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
676 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
677 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
678 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
679 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
680 * Refactoring context stuff:
681 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
682 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
683 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
685 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
687 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
688 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
689 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
690 o network_model -> network/model
691 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
692 * New configuration variables:
693 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
694 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
695 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
696 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
697 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
698 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
700 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
701 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
702 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
703 When so, you need to use the following functions
704 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
705 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
706 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
707 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
708 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
710 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
711 Tracing for Visualization:
712 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
713 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
714 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
715 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
716 (among other functions).
717 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
718 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
719 traces with the Triva tool is written.
720 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
723 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
724 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
725 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
726 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
727 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
728 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
729 * Added code coverage tests.
730 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
732 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
734 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
736 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
739 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
740 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
741 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
742 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
743 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
744 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
745 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
746 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
747 actions on SURF kernel.
748 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
749 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
750 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
751 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
752 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
753 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
754 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
755 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
756 availability trace files.
757 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
758 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
759 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
760 faster than the old CPU models.
761 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
762 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
763 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
764 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
767 ******************************************
768 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
769 ******************************************
770 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
771 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
772 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
773 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
774 of simulations in some cases.
775 * The new network model will change simulations!
776 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
777 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
778 Sorry for the inconvenience.
781 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
782 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
783 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
784 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
786 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
787 amd64 to confirm that gain.
790 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
791 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
794 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
795 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
796 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
797 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
798 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
799 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
800 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
803 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
804 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
805 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
806 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
807 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
808 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
809 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
810 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
811 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
812 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
813 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
814 about the task in dotty format
815 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
816 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
818 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
819 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
820 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
821 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
822 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
823 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
824 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
827 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
830 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
831 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
832 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
833 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
834 thread (used in SG only for now)
835 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
838 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
839 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
840 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
841 the comm should be done.
842 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
843 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
844 use the private link instead)
845 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
846 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
847 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
848 to make it less stupid
849 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
850 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
851 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
852 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
853 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
854 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
855 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
856 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
857 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
858 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
859 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
860 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
861 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
863 Portability report of this version:
864 * Main portability targets:
865 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
867 - mac leopard on i386
868 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
869 but nothing critical.
870 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
872 Timing report of this version:
873 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
874 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
875 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
877 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
879 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
881 The "Need for Speed" release.
883 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
884 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
886 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
887 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
888 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
890 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
891 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
893 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
894 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
895 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
896 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
897 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
898 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
900 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
901 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
902 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
903 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
904 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
906 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
907 alone. We have to choose between:
908 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
909 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
910 - live with low performance
911 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
913 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
915 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
917 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
919 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
920 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
923 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
924 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
925 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
926 => kill now useless network_card concept
927 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
928 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
929 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
930 - Add three new models:
931 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
932 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
933 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
934 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
935 described in his ICCS09 paper.
937 * Simplify model declaration
938 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
939 - Factorize stuff between models:
942 surf_model_resource_set(model)
943 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
944 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
945 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
946 - Rename model methods:
947 action_free ~> action_unref
948 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
949 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
950 - Change model methods into functions :
951 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
953 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
954 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
955 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
956 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
957 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
959 * Improve the action object model
960 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
961 initialization in generic_action part.
963 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
964 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
967 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
968 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
969 => a lot of code was factorized
970 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
971 - simpler API for the context factory
972 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
973 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
974 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
975 and the code is a lot more readable.
978 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
979 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
980 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
983 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
984 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
985 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
986 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
988 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
989 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
992 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
993 Shout out if you used it.
996 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1000 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1001 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1002 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1003 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1004 * Remove the context module
1006 Portability report of this version:
1007 * Main portability targets:
1008 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1009 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1010 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1011 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1012 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1013 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1014 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1016 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1017 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1018 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1019 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1022 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1023 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1024 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1026 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1027 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1029 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1032 Timing report of this version:
1033 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1034 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1035 investigating this for next release.
1037 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1039 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1042 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1043 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1046 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1047 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1048 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1049 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1050 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1051 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1052 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1053 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1054 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1055 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1056 clean on that point too ;)
1057 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1058 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1059 This helps debugging.
1060 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1064 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1065 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1066 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1067 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1068 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1069 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1070 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1071 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1072 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1073 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1075 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1076 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1077 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1078 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1079 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1080 - failure during communications were not working
1083 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1084 process in the log messages.
1085 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1086 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1089 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1092 * Massive internal cleanups:
1093 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1094 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1096 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1097 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1098 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1099 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1101 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1102 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1103 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1104 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1105 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1108 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1109 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1110 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1113 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1114 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1115 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1116 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1120 Portability report of this version:
1121 * Main portability targets:
1122 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1123 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1124 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1125 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1126 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1127 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1128 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1131 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1132 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1133 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1134 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1135 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1136 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1139 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1140 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1141 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1143 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1146 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1148 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1152 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1153 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1155 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1158 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1159 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1160 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1162 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1163 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1165 **************************************
1166 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1167 **************************************
1168 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1169 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1170 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1171 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1173 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1174 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1176 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1177 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1178 output match an expected output [Mt].
1180 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1181 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1182 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1184 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1185 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1186 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1189 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1190 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1191 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1192 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1193 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1195 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1196 linux ones too) [Mt]
1197 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1198 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1199 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1200 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1203 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1204 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1205 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1206 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1207 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1208 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1209 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1210 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1211 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1213 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1214 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1215 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1216 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1217 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1218 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1220 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1221 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1222 root directly) [Mt].
1225 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1226 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1227 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1228 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1229 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1230 was thus designed [AL].
1231 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1232 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1234 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1236 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1237 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1238 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1241 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1243 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1244 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1245 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1247 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1249 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1253 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1254 least MSG is usable.
1256 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1257 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1258 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1259 you can write (and must)
1260 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1261 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1262 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1263 - Impacted functions:
1264 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1265 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1266 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1267 (just like the main() function)
1269 GRAS new features and improvements:
1270 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1271 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1272 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1273 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1275 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1276 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1277 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1278 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1279 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1280 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1281 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1282 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1283 No big deal usually.
1284 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1285 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1286 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1287 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1288 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1291 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1292 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1293 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1294 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1295 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1296 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1299 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1300 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1301 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1304 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1305 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1306 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1307 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1308 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1312 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1313 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1314 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1316 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1317 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1318 and allocating new ones.
1320 Documentation update:
1321 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1322 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1323 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1324 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1325 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1326 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1327 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1328 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1330 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1331 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1333 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1334 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1335 o Part 2: Message passing
1336 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1337 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1338 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1339 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1340 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1341 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1342 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1343 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1344 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1345 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1346 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1347 - A HOWTO section containing:
1348 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1349 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1350 check the examples which are still here.
1352 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1354 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1358 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1359 with these versions. [Vince]
1362 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1363 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1364 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1365 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1366 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1369 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1370 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1371 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1372 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1373 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1374 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1375 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1378 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1379 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1380 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1381 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1382 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1384 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1385 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1388 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1389 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1390 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1391 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1392 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1393 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1394 correctly handled). [AL]
1395 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1399 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1400 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1402 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1403 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1405 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1406 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1408 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1409 within a given period.
1410 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1411 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1412 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1413 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1414 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1418 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1419 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1420 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1421 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1422 * Peer management module:
1423 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1426 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1427 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1428 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1429 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1430 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1431 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1432 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1433 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1434 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1435 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1436 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1437 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1438 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1439 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1440 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1441 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1442 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1444 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1445 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1446 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1448 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1450 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1453 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1454 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1455 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1456 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1457 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1458 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1459 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1460 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1461 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1462 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1463 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1464 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1466 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1467 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1468 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1469 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1470 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1471 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1472 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1475 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1476 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1479 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1480 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1483 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1484 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1485 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1486 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1488 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1489 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1491 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1492 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1493 to be given thru annotations.
1494 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1495 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1497 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1499 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1500 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1503 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1504 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1507 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1508 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1509 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1510 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1512 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1513 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1514 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1515 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1517 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1518 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1519 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1520 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1521 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1522 everything is arrived
1523 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1525 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1527 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1528 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1529 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1530 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1531 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1532 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1535 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1536 doing as few data copy as possible.
1538 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1539 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1540 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1541 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1543 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1545 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1547 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1550 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1551 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1552 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1554 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1556 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1562 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1563 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1564 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1565 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1568 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1569 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1570 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1571 network model) if none was precised.
1574 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1576 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1577 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1578 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1579 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1580 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1581 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1582 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1584 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1585 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1587 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1588 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1590 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1591 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1592 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1593 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1594 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1595 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1597 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1598 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1600 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1602 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1606 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1607 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1610 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1611 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1613 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1616 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1618 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1619 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1622 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1623 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1624 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1625 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1626 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1627 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1628 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1629 in place before [MQ]
1632 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1633 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1634 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1635 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1636 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1637 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1638 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1639 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1640 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1643 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1644 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1647 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1648 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1650 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1651 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1652 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1653 meaning in networking community.
1656 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1657 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1658 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1659 * New module: bandwidth
1660 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1662 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1664 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1666 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1670 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1673 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1676 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1677 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1679 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1680 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1681 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1685 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1686 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1687 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1688 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1689 you need on the simulator.
1693 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1694 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1695 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1696 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1697 needed by MSG examples complications
1698 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1701 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1702 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1703 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1707 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1708 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1709 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1710 (and therefore delayed).
1711 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1712 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1713 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1714 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1715 - move some private declaration to the right place
1716 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1717 - document the module
1718 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1719 * Documentation improvements:
1720 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1721 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1723 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1725 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1727 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1730 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1731 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1735 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1736 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1738 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1739 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1740 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1741 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1742 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1743 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1744 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1745 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1746 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1747 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1750 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1751 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1753 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1756 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1758 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
1760 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
1764 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
1765 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
1766 remote compilation helpers.
1768 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
1772 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
1774 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
1776 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
1777 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
1778 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
1779 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
1781 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
1783 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
1785 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
1789 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
1791 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
1792 through the function MSG_paje_output.
1793 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
1794 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
1795 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
1796 to write it in the changelog).
1797 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
1802 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
1803 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
1804 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
1806 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
1807 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
1808 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
1809 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
1811 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
1812 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
1813 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
1814 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
1816 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
1817 lookup time (for now).
1818 Use it in msg and trp.
1819 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
1820 headers between the gras components.
1821 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
1822 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
1823 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
1825 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
1827 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
1829 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
1831 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
1833 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
1834 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
1835 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
1836 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
1837 summary of the main changes.
1839 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
1840 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
1841 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
1842 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
1843 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
1844 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
1845 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
1846 in the documentation.
1848 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
1849 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
1850 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
1851 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
1852 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
1853 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
1855 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
1856 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
1857 with the previous version are :
1858 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
1859 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
1860 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
1861 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
1862 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
1863 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
1864 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
1865 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
1866 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
1868 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
1869 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
1870 dictionaries that are much faster).
1872 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
1874 *****************************************************************************
1875 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
1876 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
1877 *****************************************************************************
1880 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
1881 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
1882 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
1885 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
1888 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
1889 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
1890 performance on which you can execute some actions.
1892 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
1893 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
1894 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
1895 to 'make check' over there yet.
1897 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
1898 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
1899 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
1900 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
1901 trees. One day maybe...
1902 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
1903 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
1904 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
1905 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
1908 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
1909 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
1911 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
1912 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
1913 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
1914 run effectively faster than before now. :)
1916 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
1917 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
1919 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
1920 - Introduction of the remote errors.
1921 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
1922 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
1923 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
1924 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
1926 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
1927 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
1928 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
1929 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
1930 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
1931 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
1932 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
1933 - e_toto_t is an enum
1934 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
1936 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
1937 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
1938 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
1939 s_toto_t) is private.
1941 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
1942 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
1943 it changed for dynars.
1945 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
1946 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
1948 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
1949 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
1951 gras_dynar_get is dead.
1953 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
1954 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
1955 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
1957 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
1958 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
1960 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
1961 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
1963 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
1964 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
1965 far more lookup than setting.
1967 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
1969 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
1970 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
1972 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
1973 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
1974 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
1976 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
1977 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
1979 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
1980 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
1982 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
1983 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
1984 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
1986 - Header reorganization.
1987 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
1989 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
1990 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
1992 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
1993 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
1994 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
1995 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
1996 This simplify the API a lot.
1998 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
1999 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2000 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2001 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2004 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2006 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2007 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2010 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2011 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2014 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2015 - Finish the port to AIX.
2016 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2017 function. No idea why)
2019 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2020 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2022 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2023 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2024 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2026 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2028 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2029 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2030 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2031 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2033 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2034 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2035 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2036 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2037 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2038 hopefully usefull message.
2039 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2041 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2042 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2043 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2045 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2046 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2047 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2048 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2050 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2051 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2052 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2053 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2054 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2055 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2056 - search not dichotomial yet
2057 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2058 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2059 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2060 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2061 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2062 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2063 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2064 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2065 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2066 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2067 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2069 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2070 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2071 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2074 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2075 the ID of this type.
2077 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2078 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2079 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2080 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2081 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2082 real life and on sg in simulation).
2083 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2084 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2085 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2086 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2087 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2088 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2089 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2090 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2091 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2092 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2093 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2096 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2097 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2098 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2099 - shorted the function names:
2100 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2101 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2102 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2103 pop their size of the stack.
2104 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2105 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2106 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2107 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2109 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2110 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2111 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2112 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2114 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2115 - understand it again
2116 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2117 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2118 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2119 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2121 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2122 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2124 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2125 - Some documentation cleanups
2126 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2127 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2128 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2129 gras -> . symbolic link
2130 - make distcheck is now successful
2132 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2134 - Build shared library also
2135 - Install html doc to the right location
2136 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2137 - build tests only on make check
2139 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2141 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2142 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2143 corresponding dataset.
2145 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2147 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2148 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2149 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2150 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2152 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2153 [autoconf mechanism]
2154 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2155 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2156 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2157 Alignment is a serious matter)
2158 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2159 constraints of each types)
2160 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2162 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2163 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2164 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2165 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2166 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2167 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2168 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2170 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2171 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2173 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2174 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2175 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2177 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2178 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2179 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2180 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2181 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2183 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2184 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2185 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2186 generated as first byte.
2187 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2188 architecture descriptions.
2189 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2190 on those architectures.
2191 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2193 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2194 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2196 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2197 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2198 settings will be separated
2199 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2201 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2203 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2204 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2205 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2206 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2208 [gras_stub_generator]
2209 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2211 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2212 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2213 them all up in one shot)
2215 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2216 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2217 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2219 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2220 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2221 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2223 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2224 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2225 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2226 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2227 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2228 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2230 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2232 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2234 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2235 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2238 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2239 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2240 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2242 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2244 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2246 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2248 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2249 - kill a few lines of dead code
2250 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2251 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2252 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2254 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2255 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2257 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2258 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2259 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2261 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2263 - Porting to new standards.
2265 - interface cleanup.
2266 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2267 pointers behind "ID".
2268 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2269 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2270 interleaved, but anyway.
2272 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2274 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2276 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2277 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2278 - update run_test to integrate the lastest tests (datadesc)
2280 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2282 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2284 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2285 - send/receive function.
2286 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2287 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2288 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2289 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2290 - base types: int, float
2291 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2292 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2293 - chained list, graph with cycle
2294 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2295 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2299 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2301 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2303 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2304 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2306 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2308 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2309 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2310 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2312 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2313 (the latter function is removed)
2314 [Conditional execution]
2315 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2316 [Code reorganisation]
2317 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2318 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2319 its creation for now.
2321 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2322 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since