\subsection faq_C Argh! Do I really have to code in C?
-Currently bindings on top of MSG are supported for Java, Ruby and Lua. You can find a few
-documentation about them on the doc page. Note that bindings are released separately from the main dist
-and so have their own version numbers.
+We provide Java bindings of the MSG interface, which is the main
+SimGrid user API.
-Moreover If you use C++,
-you should be able to use the SimGrid library as a standard C library
-and everything should work fine (simply <i>link</i> against this
-library; recompiling SimGrid with a C++ compiler won't work and it
-wouldn't help if you could).
+Moreover If you use C++, you should be able to use the SimGrid library
+as a standard C library and everything should work fine (simply
+<i>link</i> against this library; recompiling SimGrid with a C++
+compiler won't work and it wouldn't help if you could).
-For now,
-we do not feel a real demand for any other language. But if you think there is one,
- please speak up!
+For now, we do not feel a real demand for any other language. But if
+you think there is one, please speak up!
\section faq_howto Feature related questions
you could also get in real settings to not hinder the realism of your
simulation.
-\verbatim
+\code
double get_host_load() {
m_task_t task = MSG_task_create("test", 0.001, 0, NULL);
double date = MSG_get_clock();
MSG_task_destroy(task);
return (0.001/date);
}
-\endverbatim
+\endcode
Of course, it may not match your personal definition of "host load". In this
case, please detail what you mean on the mailing list, and we will extend
ready). However, getting the *real* communication time is not really
hard either. The following solution is a good starting point.
-\verbatim
+\code
int sender()
{
m_task_t task = MSG_task_create("Task", task_comp_size, task_comm_size,
MSG_task_destroy(task);
return 0;
}
-\endverbatim
+\endcode
\subsection faq_MIA_SimDag SimDag related questions
create 3 SD_tasks: t1, t2 and c and add dependencies in the following
way:
-\verbatim
+\code
SD_task_dependency_add(NULL, NULL, t1, c);
SD_task_dependency_add(NULL, NULL, c, t2);
-\endverbatim
+\endcode
This way task t2 cannot start before the termination of communication c
which in turn cannot start before t1 ends.
distributed. Here is an example of how you could do that. Assume T1
has to be done before T2.
-\verbatim
+\code
int your_agent(int argc, char *argv[] {
...
T1 = MSG_task_create(...);
}
}
}
-\endverbatim
+\endcode
If you decide that the distributed part is not that much important and that
DAG is really the level of abstraction you want to work with, then you should
file that highlights the most important changes) even before you
upgrade your copy of SimGrid, too.
-Backward compatibility is very important to us, as we want to provide
-a scientific tool allowing to evaluate the code you write in several
-years, too. That being said, we sometimes change the interface to make
-them more usable to the users. When we do so, we always keep the old
-interface as DEPRECATED. If you still want to use them, you want to
-define the SIMGRID_DEPRECATED preprocessor symbol before loading the
-SimGrid files:
-
-@verbatim
-#define SIMGRID_DEPRECATED
-#include <msg/msg.h>
-@endverbatim
+We do our best to maintain the backward compatibility, but we
+sometimes have to fix the things that are too broken. If we happen to
+kill a feature that you were using, we are sorry. We think that you
+should update to the new way of doing things, but if you can't afford
+it, that's ok. Just stick to the last version that were working for
+you, and have a pleasant day.
\subsection faq_trouble_lib_compil SimGrid compilation and installation problems
We know only one reason for the configure to fail:
- <b>You are using a broken build environment</b>\n
- If symptom is that the configury magic complains about gcc not being able to build
- executables, you are probably missing the libc6-dev package. Damn Ubuntu.
+ Try updating your cmake version. If symptom is that the configury
+ magic complains about gcc not being able to build executables, you
+ are probably missing the libc6-dev package. Damn Ubuntu.
If you experience other kind of issue, please get in touch with us. We are
always interested in improving our portability to new systems.
specify <tt>-lpthread</tt> on the linker command line. As usual, this should
come after <tt>-lsimgrid</tt> on this command line.
-\subsubsection faq_trouble_lib_msg_deprecated "gcc: undefined reference to MSG_*"
-
-Since version 3.7 all the m_channel_t mecanism is deprecated. So functions
-about this mecanism may get removed in future releases.
-
-List of functions:
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(int) MSG_get_host_number(void);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(m_host_t *) MSG_get_host_table(void);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_get_errno(void);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_get(m_task_t * task, m_channel_t channel);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_get_with_timeout(m_task_t * task, m_channel_t channel, double max_duration);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_get_ext(m_task_t * task, int channel, double max_duration, m_host_t host);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_put(m_task_t task, m_host_t dest, m_channel_t channel);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_put_bounded(m_task_t task, m_host_t dest, m_channel_t channel, double max_rate);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_task_put_with_timeout(m_task_t task, m_host_t dest, m_channel_t channel, double max_duration);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(int) MSG_task_Iprobe(m_channel_t channel);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(int) MSG_task_probe_from(m_channel_t channel);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(int) MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(MSG_error_t) MSG_set_channel_number(int number);
-
-\li XBT_PUBLIC(int) MSG_get_channel_number(void);
-
-If you want them you have to compile Simgrid v3.7 with option "-Denable_msg_deprecated=ON".
-Using them should print warning to inform what new function you have to use.
-
\subsection faq_trouble_errors Runtime error messages
\subsubsection faq_flexml_limit "surf_parse_lex: Assertion `next limit' failed."
