Hi, Udit You might use a too big number of fast forwarding(-F 50000000000). Try to use -F 50000000.
Regards, Zhiguo -----Original Message----- From: gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org [mailto:gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org] On Behalf Of Udit Kumar Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 2:31 PM To: gem5 users mailing list Subject: [gem5-users] GEM5 run with PARSEC blackscholes - Seems to be early termination Hello Users, I am trying to run PARSEC benchmark "blackscholes", I used following command ./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt ./configs/example/fs.py -n 64 --script=/design/hegcad/users/udit/MS/common/project/general/multi_core/PARSEC/blackscholes_2c_simsmall.rcS --detailed --caches --l2cache -F 50000000000 blackscholes_2c_simsmall.rcS content is following, In this file I disabled switchcpu to avoid unwanted termination during cpu switching time. #!/bin/sh # File to run the blackscholes benchmark cd /parsec/install/bin #/sbin/m5 switchcpu /sbin/m5 dumpstats /sbin/m5 resetstats ./blackscholes 64 /parsec/install/inputs/blackscholes/in_4K.txt /parsec/install/inputs/blackscholes/prices.txt echo "Done :D" /sbin/m5 exit /sbin/m5 exit As per Joel http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.m5.users/3931, this benchmark takes around 5 hours to complete the run but for me run is completed with-in 15-20 minutes, I am not able to understand reason for early termination of the run,. On screen-output, it is showing me termination as follows gem5 Simulator System. http://gem5.org gem5 is copyrighted software; use the --copyright option for details. gem5 compiled Jun 3 2012 17:03:09 gem5 started Jun 5 2012 10:49:37 gem5 executing on dlhl0836 command line: ./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt ./configs/example/fs.py -n 64 --script=/design/hegcad/users/udit/MS/common/project/general/multi_core/PARSEC/blackscholes_2c_simsmall.rcS --detailed --caches --l2cache -F 50000000000 Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second info: kernel located at: /design/dsmcad2/users/udit/learning/gem5/binary_PARSEC/m5_system_2.0b3/binaries/vmlinux Listening for system connection on port 3456 0: system.tsunami.io.rtc: Real-time clock set to Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 2009 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7001 --- [ Similar message for 64 ports..] ----- Switch at instruction count:50000000000 info: Entering event queue @ 0. Starting simulation... info: Launching CPU 1 @ 258121500 --- [ Launching all 64 CPU..] ----- warn: Prefetch instructions in Alpha do not do anything warn: Prefetch instructions in Alpha do not do anything warn: Prefetch instructions in Alpha do not do anything warn: subs/sud f11,f10,f14: non-standard trapping mode not supported warn: muls/sud f11,f10,f0: non-standard trapping mode not supported -- multipe message like [ non-standard trapping mode not supported ] ------- warn: cvtts/sud f0,f3: non-standard trapping mode not supported hack: be nice to actually delete the event here Switched CPUS @ tick 2347967372000 Changing memory mode to timing switching cpus **** REAL SIMULATION **** info: Entering event queue @ 2347967372000. Starting simulation... warn: Prefetch instructions in Alpha do not do anything warn: Prefetch instructions in Alpha do not do anything warn: allocating bonus target for snoop .... multiple message [warn: allocating bonus target for snoop ] ---- Exiting @ tick 2348590560500 because m5_exit instruction encountered Thanks & Regards, Udit Kumar _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users