On Sat, June 23, 2012 10:21 am, Anouk wrote: > Dear, > > I have a question about the relationship between a Ruby cycle and it's > equivalent in 'real time' seconds. Could somebody please tell me whether I > am > right in what I am thinking? > > In the default case, 1 Ruby cycle is equal to 500 ticks, which makes 1 > Ruby > cycle equal to 0.5 ns. So is correct to say then when you call the Ruby > event > queue to schedule the next event, that that event will take place 0.5 ns > later, > in 'real life'?
The use of the word 'real' seems dubious to me, but you are correct. > > The reason for this question is that I want to write a time division > multiplexed > network in which cores can only communicate during certain time slots and > therefore I need to relate a Ruby cycle to a number of ns. > I don't see why you need to know the length of a cycle in terms of how much time passed in 'real life'. -- Nilay _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
