From 1fccf7d5de4bfa145a5a27f339050e7282996a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Quinson Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:41:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] getting closer to the release --- ChangeLog | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d7091665a6..08f526611e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,24 @@ SimGrid (3.21) NOT RELEASED (Release Target: September 23. 2018, 1:54 UTC) +The Restarting Documentation (TRD) Release. + +Documentation: + - Convert the user manual to Sphinx for improved usability. + Unstable version now hosted on https://simgrid.frama.io/simgrid + Many glitches remain; stay tuned. + - Restrict the Doxygen reference API to the installed header files. + (documenting all internals this way is overkill + doxygen scales badly) + - New tutorial on S4U (highly inspired from the old MSG one, but with + a git repository to fork as a starting point, and a docker image) + - Started but not finished a SMPI tutorial inspired from the JLPC'14 one. + - The Developper manual is still to be converted (not compiled until then) + S4U new features: + - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken + (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related) + - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters, + move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent + the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run. - s4u::Io: IOs go asynchronous as activities. This comes with new methods in the s4u::Storage class: - io_init(sg_size_t, s4u::Io::OpType) to create a READ or WRITE asynchronous @@ -8,11 +26,6 @@ S4U new features: activity. - read_async(sg_size_t) and write_async(sg_size_t) which are wrappers on io_init() + start() - - Fully reimplement auto_restart mechanism that was utterly broken - (fix #22, #131 and #281 that were all very related) - - When creating an actor from a function and its parameters, - move-only parameters are not allowed anymore, as it would prevent - the actor to be restartable if its parameters are consumed on run. Tracing: - Rename 'power' and 'power_used' variables into 'speed' and 'speed_used' diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c04c3f9bba..9dbec30a83 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \/ | \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_| (not released) +The Restarting Documentation (TRD) release. + + * Overhaul the documentation, and move to Sphinx + RTD. + * Allow dynamic replay of MPI apps, controlled by S4U actors + * Rewrite the support for auto-restarted actors (was utterly broken) + * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement) _ _____ ____ ___ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \ / _ \ -- 2.20.1