-SimGrid (3.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Documentation update:
+ - New FAQ: "Valgrind spits tons of errors!"
+ - GRAS tutorial containing an introduction both to the GRAS framework
+ and to the used communication model as well as an initiatic tour
+ introducing the most proheminent features. Current tour TOC:
+ # Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
+ # Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
+ # Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
+ # Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
+ # Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
+ # Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
+ # Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
+ # Lesson 7: Using internal timers
+ # Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
+ More a due, of course. At least the one explaining how to add data
+ into messages. In the meanwhile, you can check the examples which are
+ still here.
- XBT:
- * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
- - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
- automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
- - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
- * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
- * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
- live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
- of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
- * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms. [AL]
- * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
- now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
+ --
+
+SimGrid (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ General:
+ * Port to gcc 4.x
+ There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
+ with these versions. [Vince]
+ SIMDAG:
+ * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
+ module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
+ directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
+ SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
+ all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
+
SURF:
- * complete rewrote of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
+ * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
- failures. This is now the standard model for MSG and GRAS. [AL]
+ failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
+ handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
+ * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
+ WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
+ where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
+
+ SURF, MSG, GRAS:
+ * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
+ convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
+ to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
+ WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
+ such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
+ their files. [AL]
+ A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
+ the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
MSG,GRAS:
* Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
* Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
being executed on two different locations. [AL]
+ * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
+ (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
+ correctly handled). [AL]
+ * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
+ is up or down. [AL]
GRAS:
* New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
- Exception occuring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
+ Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
and you're set.
+ * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
+ within a given period.
+ * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
+ range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
+ * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
+ or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
+ Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
AMOK:
* Bandwidth module:
- Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
- impossible to mesure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
- WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic.
+ impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
+ WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
+ - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
+ * Peer management module:
+ New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
- --
+ XBT:
+ * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
+ - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
+ automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
+ - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
+ * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
+ * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
+ live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
+ of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
+ * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
+ in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
+ * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
+ now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
+ * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
+ * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
+ headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
+ stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
+ * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
+ g++. [AL]
+ * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
+ meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
+ but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
+
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
