Re: [Gems-users] SimicsDriver

[Kevin Moore <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

On Apr 11, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Dave Z. wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> As I understand Simics delivers data/instruction
> fetches to Ruby and these data/instruction fetches are
> recorded by SimicsDriver, right? Could you please
> clarify the following?
>
> - Do these requests recorded by SimicsDriver only come
> from Simics? Or are there some Ruby requests which
> might get recorded by SimicsDriver as well?
I'm not sure what you mean here, but I believe all memory requests come  
from Simics if ruby is run without opal.  Otherwise, the requests come  
from opal.
> - When sending data from one processor to another
> (e_sendData), does it involve SimicsDriver?
No.

> - When Ruby models the data allocation and data
> movement behaviors such as cache line allocation,
> L1_to_L2, L2_replacement, etc., are these requests
> sent back to Simics? Or recorded by SimicsDriver?
No.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

> Thank you.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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