S4U:
- New class ActivitySet to ease wait_any()/test_any()/wait_all()
- Deprecate {Comm,Io,Exec}::{wait_any,wait_all,test_any} and friends
- - New function NetZone::add_route(host1, host2, links) when you don't need gateways
- Also add a variant with s4u::Link, when you don't want to specify the directions
- on symmetric routes.
- - Introduce a Mailbox::get_async() with no payload parameter. You can use the new
+ - Simplify a bit the declaration of multi-zoned platforms from C++
+ - New function NetZone::add_route(host1, host2, links) when you don't need gateways
+ - Also add a variant with s4u::Link, when you don't want to specify the directions
+ on symmetric routes.
+ - Zone's gateways can now be controlled directly.
+ - Add NetZone::add_route(zone1, zone2, links) specifying the route between zones
+ - Introduce a Mailbox::get_async() with no payload parameter. You can use the new
Comm::get_payload() once the communication is over to retrieve the payload.
+ - Implement recursive mutexes. Simply pass true to the constructor to get one.
+ - Simplify the expression of horizontal scaling of Tasks.
+ - Each Task now consists of a dispatcher, a collector and one or more instances.
+ - The parallelism degree of each of these can be set.
+ - Several examples have been added or modified accordingly.
+ - Introduce a new MessageQueue abstraction and associated Mess simulated object.
+ The behavior of a MessageQueue is similar to that of a Mailbox, but intended for
+ control messages that do not incur any simulated cost. Information is automagically
+ transported over thin air between producer and consumer. See examples/cpp/mess-wait
+
+New S4U plugins:
+ - Add a JBOD (just a bunch of disks) concept. It's a sort of host with many disks.
+ - Revamp the battery plugin: rewrite completely the API, for a better usability.
+ The examples were updated accordingly.
+ The battery can now act as a simple connector (see battery-connector example).
+ - Revamp of the Photovoltaic plugin: now called SolarPanel and complete rewrite of the API
+ - Add chiller plugin: enable the management of chillers consuming electrical energy
+ to compensate heat generated by hosts.
+ - Add a battery-chiller-solar example combining several plugins to evaluate the amount
+ of brown energy (from the electrical grid) and green energy (from the solar panel)
+ during a given computation.
SMPI:
- New SMPI_app_instance_join(): wait for the completion of a started MPI instance
- MPI_UNIVERSE_SIZE now initialized to the total amount of hosts in the platform
+ - Memory usage due to SMPI for non-MPI actors greatly reduced.
+
+sthread:
+ - Allow to use on valgrind-observed processes
+ - Install sthread on user's disk.
+ - Implement recursive pthreads.
+ - Add some McMini codes to test sthread further (controlled with enable_testsuite_McMini).
+
+Model checking:
+ - More informative backtraces on assertion failure.
Python:
- Make the host_load plugin available from Python. See examples/python/plugin-host-load
- Comm::waitall/waitany/testany() are gone. Please use ActivitySet() instead.
- Comm::waitallfor() is gone too. Its semantic was unclear on timeout anyway.
- Io::waitany() and waitanyfor() are gone. Please use ActivitySet() instead.
+ - Add the bindings of the host load plugin
C API:
- Introduce sg_activity_set_t and deprecate wait_all/wait_any/test_any for
Exec, Io and Comm.
-Plugins:
- - Revamp the battery plugin: rewrite completely the API, for a better usability.
- The examples were updated accordingly.
+Kernel:
+ - optimize an internal data structure (replace boost::circular_buffer_space_optimized by
+ std::deque to store pending and unmatched Comms in Mailboxes). It is actually a revert
+ to what was used a few years back. The boost structure had a lower memory footprint than
+ deques, but it appeared that their "space_optimized" character was generating a huge lot
+ of refcount changes on the stored Comms.
+
+General:
+ - Fix errors with ns-3 v3.36+
+ - Many other small bug fixes, in particular in MC and sthread.
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