+SimGrid (3.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ XBT:
+ * New module: cunit [MQ]
+ * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
+
+ --
+
SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
XBT:
[AL]
* Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
* Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
+ * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
+ the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
+ depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
+ * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
+ and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
+
+ SURF:
+ * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
+ exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
+ SURF:
+ * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
+ communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
+
MSG:
- * Add addtionnal checkings on channel values in communicating functions.
-
- GRAS performance improvements:
+ * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
+ * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
+ * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
+ the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
+ by host. [AL]
+ * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
+ waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
+
+ GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
+ * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
+ to be given thru annotations.
+ * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
+ (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
+
+ GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
+ [DataDesc]
+ * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
+ datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
+ dynar_reset ())
+ [Virtu]
+ * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
+ reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
+
+ [Transport]
* Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
- It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day. [MQ]
- * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG [MQ]
+ It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
+ * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
Allows to:
- improve message exchange performance on top of SG
- deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
* Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
- instead, specify the possible buffer size to read(). [MQ]
+ instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
Advantages:
- reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
- reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
Extra difficulty:
- take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
and bufferize them.
- * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here) [MQ]
+ * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
- Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
* Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
- to use. [MQ]
+ to use.
* I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
doing as few data copy as possible.
dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
-
- --
+
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=low
