I think the OS scheduler tries to balance the cpu's load avoiding that ipc difference.
Rodrigo Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:48:55 +0530 From: biswa....@gmail.com To: gem5-users@gem5.org Subject: Re: [gem5-users] Parsec and Alpha why would the ipc be same? On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Rodrigo Reynolds Ramírez <rodrigo.r...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone I am currently working with parsec+alpha, I have executed some tests using the small inputs using two cpus, is it normal to get a very unbalanced ipc? These are my results: Bench / IPC CPU0 CPU1 blackscholes 1.659 0.338138 bodytrack 0.374274 0.319496 canneal 0.108077 0.529619 dedup 0.585347 0.292882 ferret 0.71402 0.337503 fluidanimate 1.493102 0.297794 freqmine 0.596511 0.305602 streamcluster 0.243343 0.303156 swaptions 0.24285 0.331316 vips 0.280734 0.403565 x264 0.491017 0.314645 For most benchmarks there is a big difference in the ipc between cpus, I would think the ipc should be almost the same. I am using the alpha image provided here http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~parsec_m5/, I am using the memory classic model, checkpoints and the launcher scripts generated with .rcS Run Script Generator. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users -- thanks®ards BISWABANDAN http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/ “We might fall down, but we will never lay down. We might not be the best, but we will beat the best! We might not be at the top, but we will rise.” _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
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