X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/8fd9c3a50b34fb6cc8336d4c7966e8077d463ccc..e30a0d57a0764dbfced844598d2f0772226fb70d:/ChangeLog diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a393f8453e..adec161972 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ SimGrid (3.6) unstable; urgency=low + MSG + * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience, + but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code, + you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long) + * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody + ever managed to do anything useful with it. + SURF * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every @@ -17,12 +24,46 @@ SimGrid (3.6) unstable; urgency=low Simix * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution. + * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the + context factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to + do the work in an efficient manner. + * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at + compilation time. Use --cfg=simix/context:raw for maximal speed. XBT * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues due to the change to return type of SD_Simulate. See also: http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html + * Add new logging macros, with variable number of arguments. Define + XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old macros INFO1, INFO2, etc. + + INSTR + * New configuration options + Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate + graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool. + * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized + * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr + * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface: + User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it + * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment creation + * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories + TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you + * links in the trace file are again identified by their names + * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes + * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts + for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation + these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje + * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated + its functionality may be reincorporated if needed + + Build Infrastructure + * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h. + - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that + some things change (we're a research project after all, not a + nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you + could rely on that macro to adapt. + - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6 -- Da SimGrid team