On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 14:39 +0800, Pi-Cheng Chen wrote:
> On 2 December 2014 at 19:02, Ivan T. Ivanov <iiva...@mm-sol.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 15:21 +0800, pi-cheng.chen wrote:
> > > Add 2 new kind of event for running a memory or a io bounded load.
> > > "mem" name for a load is memory bounded, and "iorun" name for a load is io
> > > bounded. The default file to be written to create the load is /dev/null
> > > and
> > > the device/file could be specified with "io_device" key in "global"
> > > section.
> > >
> > > E.g.
> > > "tasks" : {
> > > "thread0" :
> > > { "sleep" : 1000, "run" : 100, "mem" : 1000, "sleep" 10000, "iorun" :
> > > 1000 }
> > > },
> > > "global" : { "io_device" : "/dev/ttyS0" }
> > >
> >
> > Wouldn't be better if we can specify size of the accessed
> > memory region, instead of iteration count? We can use phases
> > to create arbitrary number of iterations for memory access.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ivan
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> I think the value of "mem" key we specify here is taken as the size of
> the memory
> to be memcpy() in the patch, not as iteration count.
> Did I misunderstand what you mean?
No. I have missed that count is used to specify memory chunk size, sorry.
Thank you.
Ivan
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