Re: [Gems-users] Interaction between Ruby and benchmarks

[Kevin Moore <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,
	You're looking in the wrong place.  Those functions have 
nothing to do with magic instructions.  Check out 
ruby/simics/commands.C.
--Kevin	

Dave Z. wrote:
> I've looked at the LogTM release (ruby/log_tm), and
> I've found some functions (addMagicEntry,
> undoMagicEntry) that might be related with magic
> instructions in TransactionLog.[Ch], but I couldn't
> find any files including "magic_instruction". Am I
> looking at the wrong place?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Dan Gibson <degibson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dave,
> > Have a look at how the LogTM release handles
> > begin/end transaction 
> > instructions. It uses the simics "magic instruction"
> > hap, which can be 
> > passed a parameter through the value used by the
> > sethi instruction. You 
> > might be able to leverage this functionality for
> > your prefetching hints.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
> > Dave Z. wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm looking into ways to establish interaction
> > between
> > > Ruby and benchmarks. For example, a data-intensive
> > > benchmark would provide hints to Ruby, such as
> > when it
> > > would request data or modify it. This hint would
> > be
> > > recognized by Ruby as an event, and would result
> > in
> > > some actions. So, these hints would be
> > predetermined
> > > and the programmer would insert them while coding
> > > benchmarks. Is it possible to implement such
> > > interaction in GEMS? If so, could you please give
> > me
> > > some pointers.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
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