First cut at dynamic events. Current status is this:
1. The tevc client can run on either a client node or on users. The command line syntax is like this: Usage: ./tevc [-s server] [-c] event ./tevc [-s server] -e pid/eid time objname event [args ...] time: 'now' or '+seconds' or [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MMss Examples: ./tevc -e pid/eid now cbr0 set interval_=0.2 ./tevc -e pid/eid +10 cbr0 start ./tevc -e pid/eid +20 cbr0 stop The -s arg defaults to BOSSNODE when not given. Only root can send TBCONTROL events (-c), but that part of tevc is probably going to be killed off when we convert to sending TBCONTROL via tmcc/tmcd (Rob is working on that). The -e option is required for dynamic events, and is not defaulted yet. 2. There is no real checking of arguments. The event is sent over to the scheduler, which tries to map it into an agent running on a node. If the map fails (say, no such trafgen, or no delay node on that link), or if the event makes no sense for that agent, the event fails and the user never hears about it. The solution for this is a back channel so that the scheduler can generate an error condition that the user sees. 3. To facilitate better checking, I think we need to change the DB tables so that there is a mapping between the type of agent (object) and the kinds of events it can take. This would replace the flat event_eventtypes table. The event_scheduler could load this table at init time so that it can do a quick check on dynamic events when they arrive and return an error when we support error values. 4. The scheduler initialization phase tries to determine what agents are valid for an experiment (thats where you can send events) so that when a user sends an event to cbr3, the event scheduler can determine what/where that is. My method for determining this is totally ad-hoc right now; read the virt_trafgens and delays table. These are the only two types of configurable agents we support. This is rather bogus! I think assign_wrapper or some other script in the front end needs to collect this data into a single table for the scheduler to read. Not sure yet; needs more thought. Anyway, I build a mapping table that can be searched when a dynamic event comes in; this avoids a DB table lookup in the critical path.
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