Re: [Gems-users] LogTM 32 Processor Limit

[Luke Yen <lyen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   It should be safe to remove this assertion.  I assume if we had a limit
and depended on it it would've been #defined.

  Luke

On Thu, 24 May 2007, James Poe wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew the reason that the current implementation
> of:
>
> void TransactionManager::commitTransaction(int xid)
>
> has an assertion that limits the maximum number of processors that can be
> simulated with LogTM to 32?
>
> Within that function we have,
>
>     if(g_SIMICS){
>       NodeID id =
> m_chip_ptr->getID()*RubyConfig::numberOfProcsPerChip()+m_version;
>       ASSERT(id < 32);
>       m_registers.enableInterrupts(id);
>     }
>
>
> I have done a quick, naive search and I'm not sure why this limitation is in
> place.  Is it still necessary, or would I be OK to remove this so that I
> could simulate a 64 processor system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James
>