Purpose:
Feature Fix
Description:
Instead of outputting the # of kilobytes in a transfer size, output
the total bytes. This helps when you're interested in just doing a
copy-paste type of thing for the transfer buffer size.
Solution:
Changed the output report
Platforms tested:
Linux(pp)
Purpose:
Feature Add
Description:
Added output which tells how large the file is (that is, the number
of dsets * number of elements in a dset * sizeof(int)).
Platforms tested:
Linux(pp)
The default minimum xfer size of 1K was way too slow for
parallel file system like the PFS of Tflops. Set it to
128K to complete soon for default settings.
Platforms tested:
Tflops, modi4.
Extension
Description:
int64_t type is not available everywhere.
#include H5private.h which has platform dependent hooks
to define int64_t to something available.
Platforms tested:
Tflops
Removing the DPSS (gridstorage) driver source code.
Description:
The DPSS (using Grid-Storage) driver is retired.
Removed the configure option with-gridstorage from configure.in.
Cvs remove the following files
./src/H5FDdpss.c
./src/H5FDdpss.h
./test/dpss_read.c
./test/dpss_write.c
Regenerated Dependencies files (some had to be hand-edited since
'make depend' did not cover them.)
Removed reference to DPSS Virtual file driver from H5F.c.
Platforms tested:
modi4 (Parallel; -with-gass=...), eirene, arabica (fortran, cxx).
Purpose:
Feature Fix
Description:
Added the minimum, maximum, and average time and MB/s for the write
and read operations. It now prints the report out in a pretty clear
format. It also includes how many iterations were done for the
write/read operation.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug fix
Description:
All processes, including those that are not part of the PIO test
sub-communicator, all attempted to run the PIO test. It resulted
in failures for those processes that are not supposed to get involved.
Solution:
The function that creates the sub-communicator also returns a
parameter indicating if the process is included in the PIO test
sub-communicator. Then only those processes will really do the
PIO test.
Platforms tested:
eirene (pp) and Modi4 (pp)
Purpose:
Feature Fix
Description:
Changed so the "pio_perf" module handles creating and destroying the
MPI Comm. Worked it so we get the minimum, maximum, and average times
over a set of iterations.
Solution:
Lots. Had to pull the MPI Comm code from the "pio_engine" module and
place it in the "pio_perf" module. Then worked on a way to have all
processes send their time output to process 0, who collects it and
gives back the min, max, and avg times for the iterations.
Platforms tested:
Linux. Doesn't work if you use more than 1 processor...*hrmph*
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
The --raw, --hdf5, --mpiio options weren't being done correctly.
Solution:
I had to change some of the tests for the io_type to & instead of |
so that they'd work how I wanted them to work.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Feature Changes
Description:
Okay, I needed to add in more parameters so that the user can modify
how things are supposed to work with the PIO programs. Also needed
to change the algorithm a bit to make these work. And needed to add
in timing for the READ option.
Solution:
Added the above things. The parameters took a major rewrite of the
command-line parsing stuff. Here's the usage statement:
usage: pio_perf [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
-h, --help Print a usage message and exit
-d N, --num-dsets=N Number of datasets per file [default:1]
-f S, --file-size=S Size of a single file [default: 64M]
-F N, --num-files=N Number of files [default: 1]
-H, --hdf5 Run HDF5 performance test
-i, --num-iterations Number of iterations to perform [default: 1]
-m, --mpiio Run MPI/IO performance test
-o F, --output=F Output raw data into file F [default: none]
-P N, --max-num-processes=N Maximum number of processes to use [default: 1]
-p N, --min-num-processes=N Minimum number of processes to use [default: 1]
-r, --raw Run raw (UNIX) performance test
-X S, --max-xfer-size=S Maximum transfer buffer size [default: 1M]
-x S, --min-xfer-size=S Minimum transfer buffer size [default: 1K]
F - is a filename.
N - is an integer >=0.
S - is a size specifier, an integer >=0 followed by a size indicator:
K - Kilobyte
M - Megabyte
G - Gigabyte
Example: 37M = 37 Megabytes
Platforms tested:
Linux, but not fully finished...
Added nfiles and ndsets parameters checking.
Removed iteration variable since iterations would be done
in Control routine.
Platforms tested:
Eirene(pp) and modi4(pp)
Bug fix (or more like feature)
Description:
MPI_File_open does not truncate the filesize if file already exists.
This created confusion during debugging as what the real file size
is. It also interfere the real write bandwidth since the times
required to allocate new disk-space vanishes for subsequent writes
that are for offset shorter than previous file sizes.
Added a MPI_File_set_size to reset the file size to 0 for every new
file.
Another bug is that the 'remove()' call may not work for MPIO/PHDF5
files. (e.g., filename may have some MPI prefix like "pfs:filename").
Replaced "remove" with MPI_File_delete for those cases.
Platforms tested:
modi4(pp) and eirene (pp)
bug fix, new feature
Description:
Added HDF5 write in do_write.
Added a complete do_read.
Still need timing code for the read part.
Platforms tested:
eirene (pp), modi4(pp).
Did not test serial since all changes were done in parallel area.
Purpose:
DOH!
Description:
Ugh! I forgot to add the -m flag to the list of "short" parameter
codes. It wasn't even looking for them. *sigh*
Solution:
Added it
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug fixes, new features
Description:
There was a coding error in handling file open flags. Changed it
to use &.
Added do_cleanup to cleanup temporary test files but only if
$HDF5_NOCLEANUP is not set. This is consistent with other test programs.
Added logic so that each process is writing its own slabs of data only.
Moved the number of process, rank of process and the communicator used
for PIO run to be global variables. Makes the coding easier. (but this
is not thread-safe.)
Platforms tested:
modi4(pp) and eirene(pp).
Code cleanup
Description:
Tweaked internal error handling macros to reduce the size of the library's
object code by about 10-20%.
Also cleaned up some compiler warnings...
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (sleipnir)
Purpose:
Feature Fix
Description:
Changed default size of file to 512MB. The "-m" flag is now in
megabytes as well. This makes running things a bit faster.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
Fixed so that it will display the correct timing data. It will also
write to the correct file (which it wasn't before).
Solution:
Put the code in for displaying the time. Had to change the way I was
passing an object to the pio_fopen() function from just being a
structure to being a pointer so that the changes could be propagated
back.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
I wasn't calculating the total time correctly.
Solution:
I had to subtract the previous time from the current time. This
wasn't being done...DOH
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Small Fixes
Description:
After conversation with Albert, here are some small fixes for the
performance stuff. Not too significant. Though, we did add the
"buffer size" as a parameter I pass to the engine.
Purpose:
Feature Fix
Description:
Added code so that it measures the time it takes to do I/O and return
that to the calling function.
This code doesn't quite work yet. There is something wrong with the
MPI code in the "pio_engine.c" file...I don't know what's up with
it...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug fix
Description:
Cleaned up obvious syntax errors to make it to compile.
Changed unnecessarily unsigned variables to signed to avoid
messy compiler warnings.
Platforms tested:
eirene (parallel)
Backward Compatibility Fix
Description:
One of H5P[gs]et_cache's parameters changed between v1.4 and the development
branch.
Solution:
Added v1.4 compat stuff around H5P[gs]et_cache implementation and testing
to allow v1.4.x users to continue to use their source code without
modification.
These changes are for everything except the FORTRAN wrappers - I spoke with
Elena and she will make the FORTRAN wrapper changes.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Purpose:
Code Cleanup and Feature Add
Description:
Finally checking in the changes I made to the performance code. It
just modularizes it a bit more and performs some more checks, etc. I
also renamed the timer functions to be more inline with how other
things are named here...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
bug Fix
Description:
Changed the code so that if parallel stuff isn't enabled, then we
don't compile the parallel code.
Solution:
Cleaned up the code and put #ifdef's around it checking for parallel
flags.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug patch
Description:
pio_xxx.c will fail compiling in serial mode.
I temporary disable the compile of the pio-perform code from
the Makefile. Will fix it after sunday.
Platforms tested:
eirene (serial).
New addition
Description:
Initial version of the Parallel I/O performance measurement program.
Not fully implemented yet but checking them in before I may destroy
them by accident.
Don't run this in small file system (like AFS or eirene) since it
generates gigabytes test files.
Platforms tested:
modi4 64bits. It compiled and ran but took a long time because
the current test parametes are too "wild".
Kludge
Description:
Since we're only about halfway through converting the internal use of
property lists from the "old way" to the generic property lists, we turned
off snapshots to avoid exposing lots of API changes to users, until the
APIs settled down.
Getting the snapshots rolling again seems to have become a priority, so
some changes are going to have to be made now that were going to be
postponed until we were completely finished with the conversion. This
requires that the old API functions be able to deal with both the old
and new property lists smoothly.
Solution:
Kludge together the property list code so that they can transparently handle
dealing with both the old and new property lists
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Code cleanup for better compatibility with C++ compilers
Description:
C++ compilers are choking on our C code, for various reasons:
we used our UNUSED macro incorrectly when referring to pointer types
we used various C++ keywords as variables, etc.
we incremented enum's with the ++ operator.
Solution:
Changed variables, etc.to avoid C++ keywords (new, class, typename, typeid,
template)
Fixed usage of UNUSED macro from this:
char UNUSED *c
to this:
char * UNUSED c
Switched the enums from x++ to x=x+1
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Bug fix
Description:
Added the condition that Parallel programs are dependent on
the hdf5 library too.
Platforms tested:
eirene (parallel), modi4(serial and parallel).
New feature.
Description:
Test programs were assumed to be serial programs only.
There was no provision to test parallel programs automatically.
Solution:
Added $(TEST_PARA_PROGS) to hold parallel test programs and
added appropriate action entry to test them if defined.
Platforms tested:
Eirene (parallel).
Bug fix.
Description:
The default file name used is /foo/test.out that usually
is not legal. Changed it to /tmp/test.out.
Platforms tested:
eirene (parallel).
bug fix
Description:
Could not get to compile as parallel program in parallel mode.
That was because I did not include hdf5.h before testing for the
H5_HAVE_PARALLEL macro. (DUMB!)
Solution:
#include hdf5.h first.
Platforms tested:
eirene (parallel)
Bug fix
Description:
Included all those generated temporary files in the CLEAN target
so that they would be cleaned in "make clean".
Platforms tested:
eirene.
Bug fix/code cleanup
Description:
Was using old-style property list for dataset transfer.
Solution:
Switched to use generic property list code for dataset transfer proplist.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
New feature
Description:
Started this directory for performance measurement programs.
The programs here got compiled but not automatically run (just
like the examples direcotry.)
The programs have existed but now gathered to this one directory.
iopipe.c, chunk.c and overhead.c were from test. perf.c and mpi-perf.c
were from testpar.
Platforms tested:
eirene (serial and parallel).
overhead failed during run due to some property error. This is probably
due to the recent change of properties code.
perf and mpi-perf do not compile correctly for Parallel mode.
Checking them to make them available to others.
