-SimGrid (3.16) UNRELEASED
+SimGrid (3.18) NOT RELEASED YET (target: December 24 2017)
+
+ S4U
+ - Link::name() is deprecated and will be removed in v3.21, use
+ Link::getCname() instead.
+ - Mailbox::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
+ Mailbox::getCname() instead to get a char*.
+ - Storage::getName() changed to return a std::string, use
+ Storage::getCname() instead to get a char*.
+
+ MSG
+ - Deprecate MSG_task_get_flops_amount(). Its semantic was weird:
+ before the start it returned the total amount of flops;
+ after it returned the ratio of remaining work. Split it:
+ MSG_task_get_initial_flops_amount() for first behavior
+ MSG_task_get_remaining_work_ratio() for the second one.
+ This fixes GitHub's #223 using PR #237. Thanks Michael Mercier.
+
+ XBT
+ - Define class simgrid::xbt::Path to manage file names.
+ - Removed unused functions:
+ - xbt/file.h: xbt_basename(), xbt_dirname(), xbt_getline()
+ - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_join()
+ - xbt/heap.h: use std::priority_queue or boost::heap instead
+
+ PLUGINS:
+ - New link_energy plugin for the consumption of the links.
+ - All of the operations on files and storage contents have been
+ packaged into a plugin (src/plugins/file_system). The current
+ public interface can be found in
+ include/simgrid/plugins/file_system.h
+ To use these functions you now have to initialize the plugin by
+ calling MSG_storage_file_system_init() just after calling
+ MSG_init() or sg_storage_file_system_init() just after creating
+ the Engine.
+
+ XML
+ - Remove the undocumented/untested tag <include>
+
+ TRACE
+ - Remove viva specific tracing as the tool is no longer maintained
+
+ Fixed bugs:
+ - #248: Kill of finished MSG processes leads to segfault
+
+SimGrid (3.17) Released October 8 2017
+
+ The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
+
+ Even very long simulations will preserve your memory: our testsuite
+ stresses SimGrid for over 45mn on fast machines for a coverage of
+ over 80%, and there is only one single known leak, of about 4kb.
+
+
+ S4U
+ - Comm.detach(): start and forget about asynchronous emission. A cleanup
+ handler may be given to free resources if the comm cannot be completed.
+ - this_actor::send(mailbox) is now mailbox->put()
+ - New: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_all()
+ - New: Host.execute() for remote executions.
+
+ SURF
+ - Unused option network/sender-gap is removed.
+
+ MSG
+ - Deprecate MSG_task_isend_with_matching(): This unused feature
+ really complicates our internals. Will be removed in v3.20.
+
+ Simix
+ - Improved context termination. It is now possible to free resources, even
+ when a process is forcibly killed.
+ - ContextBoost: add support for Boost versions above 1.61.
+
+ XBT
+ - Bring back run-time option --cfg=exception/cutpath to remove exception
+ backtraces.
+ - Removed unused functions:
+ - xbt/str.h: xbt_str_split_str(), xbt_str_subst(), xbt_str_ltrim(),
+ xbt_str_rtrim(), xbt_str_trim().
+ - xbt/xbt_os_thread.h: xbt_os_thread_cancel(), xbt_os_thread_detach().
+
+ Misc
+ - Removed header files obsolete since SimGrid 3.12:
+ msg/datatypes.h, msg/msg.h, simdag/datatypes.h, simdag/simdag.h.
+ - Fix many bugs:
+ - #3: SD_exit should be made optional
+ - #120: Memory leak when the processes are forcefully killed
+ - #159: Threading test regression in Actor refcounting
+ - #170: simgrid::s4u::Comm::wait_any() returns too many comms
+ - #185: simgrid::s4u::Engine::instance()->shutdown() segfaults
+ - #186: Actor::killAll() segfaults if some process is blocked on wait()
+ - #191: VM migration and pstate
+ - #192: Updating the energy consumptions of all hosts crashes with VMs
+ - #195: All actors have PID=0 in the logs
+ - #204: Sometimes segfault with thread contexts and mmap privatization
+ - #222: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill and segfaults
+ - #225: Actor::kill() doesn't really kill when victims are doing a join()
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SimGrid (3.16) Released June 22. 2017.
+
+ The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
Portability status:
- FreeBSD: Disable SMPI mmap privatization, switch automatically to dlopen.
- Mac, BSD: dlopen+thread broken, switch automatically to raw contexts.
+ - Java JAR file should be finally fully working on Mac OSX too.
XML platforms: Switch to platform v4.1 format.
- * This is a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
+ * This is (mainly) a backward compatible change: v4 are valid v4.1 files
- <zone> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <as>
- - <zone
Zoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
+ - <zone
Route> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <asroute>
- <bypassZoneRoute> an be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <bypassAsRoute>
- <actor> can be used as a synonym for the now deprecated <process>
- state_file and avail_file periodicity is now easier to express
(check the documentation) the old behavior should still work.
+ * Storage: not backward compatible, but it seems that nobody ever used it
+ - Remove attribute 'content_type' of <storage_type>: was never used
+ - Make attribute 'model' of <storage_type> optional: for future usage
+ - Remove Bconnection model property: was never (in)validated. Replaced by
+ the maximum of the read and write bandwidth as a resource constraint.
SimDag
- - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
+ - New and Backwards Compatibility break:
SD_simulate_with_update (double how_long, xbt_dynar_t changed_tasks_dynar)
When one wants to get the list of tasks whose states have changed during a
- simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as argument
- to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long) now returns void.
+ simulation round, s/he has to allocate and free a dynar and use it as
+ argument to this function. The former SD_simulate (double how_long)
+ now returns void.
+
+ Virtual Machines
+ - Allow multicore VMs, with the correct sharing (unless you overcommit)
+ BUG: vCPU overcommitting still leads to buggy sharing, though. WIP.
+
+ Energy
+ - New function to update the consumption of all hosts at once.
+ - Fix the model for multi-core hosts, linear in the amount of busy
+ cores with an abnormality for pIdle (see paper).
+ BUG: Still not satisfactory for ptask on mono-cores.
MSG
- - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
+ - The netzone are now available from the MSG API.
The old names still work, but are now deprecated.
SMPI
- New algorithm to privatize globals: dlopen, with dynamic loading tricks
- New option: smpi/keep-temps to not cleanup temp files
+ - New option : smpi/shared-malloc-blocksize . Relevant only when global shared
+ mallocs mode is used, allows to change the size of the fake file used
+ (default 1MB), to potentially limit the number of mappings for large runs.
+ - Support for sparse privatized malloc with SMPI_PARTIAL_SHARED_MALLOC()
+ - Fortran ifort and flang compilers support
+ - New RMA calls supported (experimental) :
+ - MPI_Win_allocate, MPI_Win_create_dynamic, MPI_Win_attach
+ - MPI_Win_detach, MPI_Win_set_info, MPI_Win_get_info
+ - MPI_Win_lock_all, MPI_Win_unlock_all, MPI_Win_flush
+ - MPI_Win_flush_local, MPI_Win_flush_all, MPI_Win_flush_local_all
+ - MPI_Op_commutative, MPI_Fetch_and_Op, MPI_Compare_and_swap
+ - MPI_Rput, MPI_Rget, MPI_Raccumulate, MPI_Rget_accumulate
+
+ S4U
+ - New: this_actor::isMaestro() returns whether we are in kernel mode.
+ - Behind the scene, ActivityImpl are now automatically refcounted.
+ Removing this nasty bottleneck will greatly simplify our internals.
XBT
- Replay: New function xbt_replay_action_get():
Retrieve the function previously associated to an event type.
- DROPPED FUNCTION: xbt_str_varsubst()
- DROPPED MODULE: strbuff. We don't need it anymore.
+ - DROPPED MODULE: matrix. We don't need it anymore.
+ - DROPPED MODULE: lib. We don't need it anymore.
- -- Release target: June 21 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+ -- Thu Jun 22 22:48:12 CEST 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-SimGrid (3.15) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.15) Released March 22. 2017
The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green
We fixed even the transient bugs on all target architectures:
MSG
- New: MSG_process_yield(). Stop and yield to other processes.
- - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
+ - New: MSG_process_daemon(). Daemon processes are automatically killed
when the last non-daemon process terminates
- New: MSG_process_ref/unref(). Fiddle with the process refcounting.
- Renamed MSG_energy_plugin_init() -> MSG_host_energy_plugin_init()
- Kill the obscure NativeException. Nobody want to survive the issues
it denotes, so use JniException that is a RuntimeException (not to
be caught explicitly).
- - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
- consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
+ - Partial bug fix in initialization. SimGrid flags on command line were
+ consumed at C level but stayed in the original Java String[] args.
This could mess users' args[i] if SG flags were not put at the end of
the command line.
- The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
+ The SimGrid flags are now removed from the Java arguments. However,
the number of arguments REMAINS UNCHANGED. It is then UNSAFE to test
- if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
+ if args.length is greater than the number of YOUR OWN ARGUMENTS.
It might be if you have --log or --cfg flags in the command line.
- Fix numerous memleaks all around the place. In particular, around VMs.
SimDag
- Backwards Compatibility breaks
- - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
- They are replaced by the unique
+ - The SD_route_get_list and SD_route_get_size functions have been removed.
+ They are replaced by the unique
void sg_host_route(sg_host_t src, sg_host_t dst, xbt_dynar_t links)
- The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
+ The route from src to dst is built in the links dynar whose size can
be obtained with xbt_dynar_length.
- The SD_route_bandwidth and SD_route_latency functions have been replaced by
- sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
+ sg_host_route_bandwidth and sg_host_route_latency.
Macros ensure the backwards compatibility, but you should fix your code
SMPI
- - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
+ - Major C++ rewrite ongoing (SMPI used to be C compiled in C++).
This can break codes using SMPI internals (from private.h instead of the public smpi.h).
- - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
+ - Bump our claim of support from MPI 1.1 to MPI 2.2.
We don't support 100% of it, but it should be enough. Contact us if not.
- - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
+ - MPI_Win_lock/unlock, MPI_Get_accumulate support added (as for all RMA, implementation is
naive and probably inaccurate)
- New algorithm for SMPI_SHARED_MALLOC: global, where all blocks are
mapped onto a unique small file using some system magic.
- A <cluster> can now be created with different speed values to represent pstates.
see examples/platforms/energy_cluster.xml for an example.
- -- Wed Mar 22 17:50:21 CET 2017 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-
-SimGrid (3.14.159) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.14.159) Released December 28. 2016
The previous release was only a crude approximation of a Pi release;
this one should be a bit better.
- Improve the documentation, in particular of the routing module.
- Integrate some patches flying around in Debian.
- -- Wed Dec 28 17:14:49 CET 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-
-SimGrid (3.14) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.14) Released December 24. 2016
Documentation
* The whole documentation was reworked and reorganized. There is
SMPI
* Privatization now works on FreeBSD
-
+
* Privatization is now activated by default in smpirun
You can turn it off with -no-privatize if something goes wrong.
* Call-location tracing for SMPI.
- You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
- your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
+ You can add the exact location (filename / linenumber) of an MPI call to
+ your trace files and slow down or speed up the simulation between two
consecutive calls by using an adjustment file (see the documentation).
* Fixed computation of timings for MPI_Send, MPI_Recv & possibly also others
* smpi/cpu-threshold:-1 should become smpi/simulate-computation:no
smpi/running-power is renamed to smpi/host-speed
- * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
- timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
+ * smpi/grow-injected-times option to enable or disable multiplication of the
+ timings injected in MPI_Iprobe, or MPI_Test. Enabled by default, which can
make simulation less precise (but also much faster).
* smpirun script should be (much) faster for large deployments.
- Ignored parameter of vm_create: core_nb, disk_path and disk_size.
- Unimplemented save/restore methods
* MSG_as_router_get_property_value() was redundent with
- MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
+ MSG_environment_as_get_property_value().
- Removed MSG_as_router_*propert*() functions
- Added MSG_environment_as_set_property_value() for consistency
- * xbt heterogeneous dictionnaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
- Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
+ * xbt heterogeneous dictionnaries (created with xbt_dict_new()).
+ Well, they are still there for now, but deprecated with a warning.
Please switch to xbt_dict_new_homogeneous() before this is removed
for real.
* Task affinity. Its intended behavior (that was very badly tested
would have hoped here.
* xbt_os_sem_get_value: unused internally, deprecated on OS X El Capitan
* Option network/coordinates is now useless and should be dropped.
-
- Storage:
+
+ Storage:
* Added option storage/max_file_descriptors to allow more than 1024 files opened
SURF:
XML:
* Add Exa- and Peta- units such as EiB, EB, Eib, Eb for size, and
- EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
+ EiBps, EBps, Eibps, Ebps for bandwidth.
They may become useful to some lucky ones.
-
+
Java:
* New functions: msg.Comm.waitAll() and msg.Comm.waitAny()
* ex/app_tokenring: new example, very similar to the MSG Token Ring
* ex/async_waitAll: new example, on asynchronous communications
MSG:
- * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
+ * Memory usage should be decreased for simulations with a large number
of processes. This also helps for SMPI.
- -- Sat Dec 24 22:34:26 CET 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
-
SimGrid (3.13) stable; urgency=low
The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
-
+
- We removed half of the lines, that were mostly experimental cruft.
v3.12 lasted 286000 lines of code, v3.13 is only 142000 lines
(not counting blanks and comments -- according to openhub.net)
- The internals are now compiled in C++ (and will soon be clean C++)
- - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
+ - We removed 75 klines of XML, 12 klines of Java, 5 klines of cmake,
59 klines of C, etc. We added only 29 klines of C++ in replacement.
-
+
* Backwards Compatibility breaks
- Removed Lua simulation bindings (switch to C or Java for that).
Lua can still be used to describe platforms
way, with filter function.
- MSG_task_listen_from_host
- MSG_mailbox_get_count_host_waiting_tasks
- - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
+ - MSG_mailbox_put_with_timeout was removed.
Please use MSG_task_send_with_timeout instead.
- - In SimDag
- - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
- - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
+ - In SimDag
+ - the SD_application_reinit function was removed. It has been a noop for a while.
+ - The ACCESS_MODE of SD_workstation has been removed. This feature was not really usable and should soon be
replaced by a more flexible mechanism.
- The following functions thus do not exist anymore
- SD_workstation_get_access_mode
- SD_route_get_communication_time => SG_route_get_latency() + amount / SD_route_get_bandwidth()
- SD_workstation_get_computation_time => amount / sg_host_speed()
- In Java
- - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
+ - VM.setBound(int load) is now VM.setBound(double bound) to meet the MSG semantics.
Use VM.getSpeed()*load/100 for the legacy behavior.
- In CMake
- option enable_tracing was removed. It was not doing anything for a while.
And the same in bits: 'Tibps', 'Gibps', 'Mibps', 'Kibps', 'Tbps', 'Gbps', 'Mbps', 'kbps', 'bps'
- latency. Default: 's' second. Also defined:
'w' week, 'd' day, 'h' hour, 'm' minute, 'ms' millisecond, 'us' microsecond, 'ns' nanosecond, 'ps' picosecond
-
+
* bin/simgrid_update_xml can upgrade your files automatically (won't convert unit-less values)
tools/sg_xml_unit_converter.py may help (but it's just a warning and will probably ever be).
MSG
* The examples were completely reorganized (in C and Java), for your browsing pleasure.
- * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
+ * Kill all deprecated functions (the ones you had when declaring MSG_DEPRECATED).
They were deprecated since a few years, and probably did not even compile anymore.
SimDag
- * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
+ * The API has been profoundly modified to directly use the core objects instead of redefining its own.
SD_Workstation_t and SD_link_t are now sg_host_t and sg_link_t respectively.
- Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
- encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
+ Some functions have also been renamed for consistency. Backward compatibility is maintained, but users are
+ encouraged to update their codes. A list of the modified functions can be found at the end of
include/simgrid/simdag.h
Simix
* refactoring and cleanup of the code;
* ongoing process to cleanly separate the model-checking algorithms
from the code model-checking support.
-
+
-- Wed Apr 27 21:00:53 CEST 2016 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
SimGrid (3.12) stable; urgency=low
