Add new internal object header routines to query the header chunk that
a message is in, and to lock/unlock a message into a chunk (so it doesn't get
moved into another chunk during allocation/free events).
Also, move dataspace message to beginning of object header messages
added to a dataset's object header, so it can be locked into chunk #0 (when
performing SWMR operations).
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (amani) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Bring r18542 from metadata journaling "merging" branch to trunk:
Bring new object header pin/unpin & protect/unprotect routines and
split-out object header chunk proxy changes from metadata_journaling branch to
"merging" branch, along with some other minor tweaks to clean up compiler
warnings, etc.
Also: clean up chunk protect/unprotect calls when allocating or freeing
space in a chunk, optimize metadata accumulator code to avoid some re-reading
of information from the file, refactor H5O_pin/H5O_unpin from way they are done
on the merging branch back to way they were previously done on trunk, other
minor code cleanups, etc.
Tested on
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (amani) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Clean up srcdir querying code more, extracting it into single header file,
to avoid compiler warnings.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/debug & prod
Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
Unify srcdir handling for test executables and allow them to use the srcdir
setting from configure time without requiring the 'srcdir' environment variable
be set (although you still can, to override the built in setting). Attempted
to get this right for Windows builds also.
Also add dependency between src/H5Tinit.c and src/libhdf5.settings, so
that the test/testcheck_version.sh script works correctly.
Tested on:
Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon)
Bring r18030 from merge_metadata_journaling branch to trunk:
Bring "brush clearing" changes (whitespace & style issues, mostly) from
metadata_journaling branch to the "merging" branch, to converge the trunk and
the metadata_journaling branch.
Also, some other minor cleanups along the way.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Bring "brush clearing" changes (whitespace & style issues, mostly) from
metadata_journaling branch to the "merging" branch, to converge the trunk and
the metadata_journaling branch.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Bring general fixes/improvements from file_free_space branch back to
trunk.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Make H5AC_flush just flush the cache and make H5AC_dest perform the
proper parallel synchronization before destroying the cache. Also, further
discriminate between 'closing' and 'non-closing' actions in H5F_flush.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.8 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
Correct a minor error in file free space allocation which was affecting
the 'multi' VFD and preventing some tests from fully working with it.
Wholesale revisitation of all the places where tests were disabled
with various VFDs and remove or correct all these so that _only_ the tests
which _really_ can't work with particular VFDs are skipped during a
'make check-vfd' test.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.5.5 (amazon) in debug mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.5 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in production mode
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Remove trailing whitespace from C/C++ source files, with the following
script:
foreach f (*.[ch] *.cpp)
sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' $f > sed.out && mv sed.out $f
end
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.5.5 (amazon)
No need for h5committest, just whitespace changes...
Description:
On Windows, certain users were having trouble with the "ohdr" test, which does some processing on object header messages. The errors were hard to reproduce on our machines, and we eventually determined that the errors were timezone-specific.
The bug is triggered on Windows when processing timestamps very near the "Epoch" (midnight on 1/1/1970)-- the mktime() function does some automatic adjustment on the time to correct for timezones. In the USA, the correction adds a few hours; in Europe, it subtracts, thus giving us times pre-Epoch.
This only affects Windows because the Windows mktime() function cannot handle times before 1970-- other systems seemingly can.
The fix is to simply create timestamps only as early as 01/02/1970. This way, any timezone adjustment will still be post-Epoch.
This bug only affects the ohdr test, and shouldn't be a problem in the library. The earliest timestamps that will actually be read will be around the time HDF5 was created (~1996-7, per Quincey).
Tested:
VS2005 on WinXP
h5committest (kagiso, linew, smirom)
Make H5Dopen versioned and change all internal usage to use H5Dopen2
Add simple regression test for H5Dopen1
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
Modify semantics for constant messages slightly, to allow them to be
deleted, but not modified. This works around the issue where "old" style
groups are being created with the symbol table message marked constant in
the 1.6 (and prior) branch, but the 1.8 branch needs to remove the symbol table
message when the group has been changed to the "new" style (upon insertion
of a link that the "old" style can't handle).
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon)
Linux/32 2.6 (chicago)
Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
Fix problems with 'check-vfd' target, that were [mostly] introduced with
the recent "unique, but sharable" ISOHM optimization.
The problems were mostly with using the 'core' VFD, so the
H5Pset_fapl_core() API call was changed to re-open existing files (therefore
operating more list the sec2, stdio, etc. VFDs). This allows many more of
the tests to run using the 'core' VFD, so those were enabled also.
Tested on:
Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2) w/check-vfd
Fix possible file corruption when using "new" format object headers and the
size of chunk #0 for an object header transitions between needing 1->2->4->8-
byte encoding for the size and there are "clean" messages in the object header
already. (Usually triggered by flushing the file while adding attributes to
an object)
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon)
Linux/32 2.6 (chicago)
Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
Add "fail if unknown" and "mark if unknown" flags to object header messages.
This gives the library a clean way to tell older libraries that a message should
not be just ignored if it's unknown, but that other actions should occur.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon)
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty)
Linux/32 2.6 (chicago)
Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
Rename new error handling API routines from H5E<foo>_stack() to
H5E<foo>2().
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon)
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty)
Tested platform:
Kagiso only since it is only a comment block change. If it works in one
machine, it should work in all, I hope. Still need to check the parallel
build on copper.
More cleanups on the object header message handling code, to make it
easier to work with and move forward on the creation order coding.
Various other minor cleanups & warning fixes.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
Finish moving object header message routines into their own source code
module, along with renaming them to have "H5O_msg_" prefix...
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon)
FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux/32 2.4 (heping)
AIX/32 5.? (copper)
Migrate more object header routines to use the H5O_msg_ prefix and put
them into the src/H5Omessage.c code module.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon)
FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux/32 2.4 (heping)
AIX/32 5.? (copper)
Refactor object header code to separate process of creating an object
header message from the process of writing to an existing one.
Start renaming operations that deal with object header messages to have
"H5O_msg_" prefix...
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon)
FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux/32 2.4 (heping)
AIX/32 5.? (copper)
Propagate object creation properties up into group, dataset and named
datatype property lists, when those property lists are retrieved for
existing objects in a file.
Also, add H5Tget_create_plist() API routine, to allow named datatype
property lists to be retrieved for named datatypes.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux/32 2.4 (heping)
Linux/64 2.4 (mir)
AIX/32 5.? (copper)
"make check-vfd" will now run all tests in the test directory with different
file drivers (at least, all of those tests that use the testing framework's
FAPL). Tests that fail will be skipped.
This is not a perfect fix, but is better than nothing.
Along with this change, check-vfd should be added to the Daily Tests.
New feature
Description:
Check in baseline for compact group revisions, which radically revises the
source code for managing groups and object headers.
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
This initiates the "unstable" phase of the 1.7.x branch, leading up
to the 1.8.0 release. Please test this code, but do _NOT_ keep files created
with it - the format will change again before the release and you will not
be able to read your old files!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
Solution:
There's too many changes to really describe them all, but some of them
include:
- Stop abusing the H5G_entry_t structure and split it into two separate
structures for non-symbol table node use within the library: H5O_loc_t
for object locations in a file and H5G_name_t to store the path to
an opened object. H5G_entry_t is now only used for storing symbol
table entries on disk.
- Retire H5G_namei() in favor of a more general mechanism for traversing
group paths and issuing callbacks on objects located. This gets us out
of the business of hacking H5G_namei() for new features, generally.
- Revised H5O* routines to take a H5O_loc_t instead of H5G_entry_t
- Lots more...
Platforms tested:
h5committested and maybe another dozen configurations.... :-)
Code cleanup
Description:
Merge back changes from "compact group" work that improve the
infrastructure of the library and may impact others. In this round of
merging, that includes:
- Move datatype allocation into single internal routine, instead of
duplicated code that was spread out in a dozen or so places.
- Clean up guts of object header routines (H5O_*) to allow for some of
the fancieroperations that need to be performed on groups, along with
some general improvements.
- Added a new error code
- Some minor cleanups in other code....
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux 2.4
Mac OS X
Code cleanup
Description:
Trim trailing whitespace, which is making 'diff'ing the two branches
difficult.
Solution:
Ran this script in each directory:
foreach f (*.[ch] *.cpp)
sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' $f > sed.out && mv sed.out $f
end
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir)
Too minor to require h5committest
Bug Fix/Code Cleanup/Doc Cleanup/Optimization/Branch Sync :-)
Description:
Generally speaking, this is the "signed->unsigned" change to selections.
However, in the process of merging code back, things got stickier and stickier
until I ended up doing a big "sync the two branches up" operation. So... I
brought back all the "infrastructure" fixes from the development branch to the
release branch (which I think were actually making some improvement in
performance) as well as fixed several bugs which had been fixed in one branch,
but not the other.
I've also tagged the repository before making this checkin with the label
"before_signed_unsigned_changes".
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel & fphdf5
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/backward compatibility
Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/"purify options"
Solaris 2.8 (sol) w/FORTRAN & C++
AIX 5.x (copper) w/parallel & FORTRAN
IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/FORTRAN
Linux 2.4 (heping) w/FORTRAN & C++
Misc. update:
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up minor warnings and align with release branch.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel & FPH5
Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/production mode
Linux 2.4 (heping) w/C++ and FORTRAN
Description: Restore 6 old error API functions back to the library to be backward
compatible with v1.6. They are H5Epush, H5Eprint, H5Ewalk, H5Eclear, H5Eset_auto,
H5Eget_auto. These functions do not have error stack as parameter.
Solution: Internally, these functions use default error stack.
Platforms tested: h5committest and fuss.
Misc. update: RELEASE.txt
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up a bunch of warnings and bring new code better inline with current
library coding practice.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel
Too minor to require h5committest
Misc. update:
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
If an HDF5 file grows larger than its address space, it dies and is unable to
write any data. This is more likely to happen since users are able to change
the number of bytes used to store addresses in the file.
Solution:
HDF5 now throws an error instead of dying. In addition, it "reserves" address
space for the local heap and for object headers (which do not allocate space
immediately). This ensures that after the error occurs, there is enough address
space left to flush the entire file to disk, so no data is lost.
A more complete explanation is at /doc/html/TechNotes/ReservedFileSpace.html
Platforms tested:
sleipnir, copper (parallel), verbena, arabica, Windows (Visual Studio 7)
Solution:
Platforms tested:
Misc. update:
bug fix
Description:
1. windows cannot recongize long long. We agree to use long_long to represent all "long long" compatible data types.
2. windows test can not check error code, it depends on error messages to be returned. This will be fixed in the future. In odhr.c, somehow only error value1 is generated, there are no error message even if some tests are missing. So just add an error message when error code is 1.
Solution:
change long long to long_long in dtypes.c;
Add an error message when error code is not 0 in ohdr.c
Platforms tested:
eirene(fortran),
arabica(fortran)
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
When too many messages were inserted into an object header, the library
had an internal pointer to the "new message" that was pointing to the incorrect
location when the array of messages was re-allocated.
In the worst case, this could cause a file to be corrupted.
Solution:
Update the internal pointer when the array is re-allocated.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
Too small to require h5committest
Bug fixes and code cleanup
Description:
Re-worked ohdr test to use modification time messages instead of symbol
table messages, now that the library correctly tries deleting the
local heap and B-trees for the symbol tables (which didn't exist and
caused the test to fail).
Added tests for using named datatypes in attributes to verify that the
reference counts are being tracked correctly, etc.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
h5committest
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up miscellaneous warnings which have crept into the code.
Fix "_POSIX_C_SOURCE not defined" warning on FreeBSD.
Adjust gcc compiler flags to be more concise for production mode.
Refactor the H5O code so that there is a stronger boundary between code
in the H5O package and code in the library which just calls H5O routines.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) serial & parallel and gcc 2.95.4 & gcc 3.2.2
Misc. update:
Update MANIFEST if you add or remove any file.
Bug Fix
Description:
Metadata cache in parallel I/O can cause hangs in applications which
perform independent I/O on chunked datasets, because the metadata cache
can attempt to flush out dirty metadata from only a single process, instead
of collectively from all processes.
Solution:
Pass a dataset transfer property list down from every API function which
could possibly trigger metadata I/O.
Then, split the metadata cache into two sets of entries to allow dirty
metadata to be set aside when a hash table collision occurs during
independent I/O.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) serial & parallel
Misc. update:
Updated release_docs/RELEASE
Bug fix
Description:
Currently, when the library encounters an object header message that isn't
know, it fails to open that object in the file.
Solution:
Allow the library to skip over the unknown object header message and
continue to process the remaining messages, in the hope that the skipped
message isn't important later. If it is important, it will be caught at
a higher level of the library.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir)
Lots of performance improvements & a couple new internal API interfaces.
Description:
Performance Improvements:
- Cached file offset & length sizes in shared file struct, to avoid
constantly looking them up in the FCPL.
- Generic property improvements:
- Added "revision" number to generic property classes to speed
up comparisons.
- Changed method of storing properties from using a hash-table
to the TBBT routines in the library.
- Share the propery names between classes and the lists derived
from them.
- Removed redundant 'def_value' buffer from each property.
- Switching code to use a "copy on write" strategy for
properties in each list, where the properties in each list
are shared with the properties in the class, until a
property's value is changed in a list.
- Fixed error in layout code which was allocating too many buffers.
- Redefined public macros of the form (H5open()/H5check, <variable>)
internally to only be (<variable>), avoiding innumerable useless
calls to H5open() and H5check_version().
- Reuse already zeroed buffers in H5F_contig_fill instead of
constantly re-zeroing them.
- Don't write fill values if writing entire dataset.
- Use gettimeofday() system call instead of time() system when
checking the modification time of a dataset.
- Added reference counted string API and use it for tracking the
names of objects opening in a file (for the ID->name code).
- Removed redundant H5P_get() calls in B-tree routines.
- Redefine H5T datatype macros internally to the library, to avoid
calling H5check redundantly.
- Keep dataspace information for dataset locally instead of reading
from disk each time. Added new module to track open objects
in a file, to allow this (which will be useful eventually for
some FPH5 metadata caching issues).
- Remove H5AC_find macro which was inlining metadata cache lookups,
and call function instead.
- Remove redundant memset() calls from H5G_namei() routine.
- Remove redundant checking of object type when locating objects
in metadata cache and rely on the address only.
- Create default dataset object to use when default dataset creation
property list is used to create datasets, bypassing querying
for all the property list values.
- Use default I/O vector size when performing raw data with the
default dataset transfer property list, instead of querying for
I/O vector size.
- Remove H5P_DEFAULT internally to the library, replacing it with
more specific default property list based on the type of
property list needed.
- Remove redundant memset() calls in object header message (H5O*)
routines.
- Remove redunant memset() calls in data I/O routines.
- Split free-list allocation routines into malloc() and calloc()-
like routines, instead of one combined routine.
- Remove lots of indirection in H5O*() routines.
- Simplify metadata cache entry comparison routine (used when
flushing entire cache out).
- Only enable metadata cache statistics when H5AC_DEBUG is turned
on, instead of always tracking them.
- Simplify address comparison macro (H5F_addr_eq).
- Remove redundant metadata cache entry protections during dataset
creation by protecting the object header once and making all
the modifications necessary for the dataset creation before
unprotecting it.
- Reduce # of "number of element in extent" computations performed
by computing and storing the value during dataspace creation.
- Simplify checking for group location's file information, when file
has not been involving in file-mounting operations.
- Use binary encoding for modification time, instead of ASCII.
- Hoist H5HL_peek calls (to get information in a local heap)
out of loops in many group routine.
- Use static variable for iterators of selections, instead of
dynamically allocation them each time.
- Lookup & insert new entries in one step, avoiding traversing
group's B-tree twice.
- Fixed memory leak in H5Gget_objname_idx() routine (tangential to
performance improvements, but fixed along the way).
- Use free-list for reference counted strings.
- Don't bother copying object names into cached group entries,
since they are re-created when an object is opened.
The benchmark I used to measure these results created several thousand
small (2K) datasets in a file and wrote out the data for them. This is
Elena's "regular.c" benchmark.
These changes resulted in approximately ~4.3x speedup of the
development branch when compared to the previous code in the
development branch and ~1.4x speedup compared to the release
branch.
Additionally, these changes reduce the total memory used (code and
data) by the development branch by ~800KB, bringing the development
branch back into the same ballpark as the release branch.
I'll send out a more detailed description of the benchmark results
as a followup note.
New internal API routines:
Added "reference counted strings" API for tracking strings that get
used by multiple owners without duplicating the strings.
Added "ternary search tree" API for text->object mappings.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
Other platforms/configurations tested?
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) serial & parallel
Solaris 2.6 (baldric) serial
Update
Description:
Changed includes of the form:
#include <hdf5_file.h>
to
#include "hdf5_file.h"
so that gcc can pick them up easier without including the system
header files since we don't care about them.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Clean up warnings
Description:
The "FAILED" macro is defined by Windows and is causing warnings and
potential errors when compiled on that platform.
Solution:
Change our macro from FAILED to H5_FAILED.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.2 (hawkwind)
