From: schnorr Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:49:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: updating ChangeLog with the instrumentation of SimGrid for visualization X-Git-Tag: SVN~248 X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/commitdiff_plain/8b6b191f50508eea2ef5217b20558b1e7193b10d?ds=sidebyside updating ChangeLog with the instrumentation of SimGrid for visualization git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/simgrid/trunk@7492 48e7efb5-ca39-0410-a469-dd3cf9ba447f --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1e96d648f7..086d22723e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -62,7 +62,18 @@ SimGrid (3.3.5-svn) unstable; urgency=low In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy. Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested (but may work). - + Tracing for Visualization: + * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for + visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the + "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with + TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end + (among other functions). + * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now + * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the + traces with the Triva tool is written. + * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations + for Visualization) + -- Da SimGrid team