Purpose: change feature
Description: Back up support bitfield and time datatypes in H5Tget_native_type.Leave it to future support. Let it return "not supported" error message for
now.
Platforms tested: h5committest and fuss.
Misc. update: RELEASE.txt
new test for the native types test
Description:
on the Cray SV1 an INT type was wrongly converted to a SHORT type
by the get_native_integer function
Choose the type based on the precision; this is to support cases
like the Cray SV1, where the size of short is 8 but precision is 32
(e.g an INT (size 8, prec 64) would be converted to a SHORT
(size 8, prec 32) if the size was the deciding factor)
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux
solaris
aix
Misc. update:
Code optimization
Description:
Set up datatype ID for dataset's datatype on disk. This allows us to avoid
repeatedly copying the datatype when an ID is needed.
Also, clean up a few warnings in various other places.
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.7 (arabica)
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel
Too minor to require h5committest
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up almost all warnings from Windows builds.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel
Too minor to require h5committest
Bug fix.
Description:
Allow H5Tget_native_type() to handle opaque fields in compound datatypes.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
too minor to require h5committest
Improve test a bit
Description:
Add a small bit of testing for the array field in a compound datatype.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.8 (sleipnir)
h5committest
Cray SV1 (wind)
Cray T3E (hubble)
Cray T90 (gypsy)
Description: H5Tget_native_type fails for multiple kinds of datatype on Cray; it fails
fix-length string type, too.
Platforms tested: Cray, h5committest
Bug fix
Description:
An earlier checkin changed some of the assumptions about single block
hyperslabs, causing them to fail in odd ways.
Solution:
Fix errors with single block hyperslabs by keying off of count==1 instead
of stride==1.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.8 (sleipnir) w/parallel
h5committested
Bug fix
Description:
Failed tests were not being reported correctly to main test routine, so
they were not stopping a 'make check'
Solution:
Changed '1' to '-1' for failures.
Platforms tested:
h5committestted (although Fortran tests failed for some reason)
Bug fix
Description:
Return correct value (1 instead of -1) on test failure.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.8 (sleipnir) w/C++
Linux 2.4 (burrwhite) w/FORTRAN
Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN
IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel & FORTRAN
(h5committest not run due to my ongoing difficulties with C++ on burrwhite).
Update
Description:
Updated the Copyright statement
Platforms tested:
Linux (This change is only in the comments, so I just check that the
modules still compile)
Misc. update:
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
Purpose:
bug fix
Description:
some arrays were too big, running out of memory limit for some machines.
Solution:
change to dynamic memory allocation.
Platforms tested:
arabica, sleipnir
Purpose:
New feature to H5Dget_offset
Description:
If user block is set, H5Dget_offset should be able to return the absolute
offset from the beginning of file.
Platforms tested:
eirene, arabica
Bug fix
Description:
Array testing routine is creatint huge arrays on the function stack
which causes a segmentation fault on Linux & FreeBSD when threadsafe
support is enabled.
Solution:
Allocate data for test dynamically instead of automatically.
In general, this should be the preferred method for all data arrays.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe enabled.
