[Gems-users] Support for XactRequestGenerator in Ruby tester

["Rubén Titos" <rtitos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear list,

In Gems 2.0, is there any support for debugging a transactional memory protocol using the tester? I've been trying to get XactRequestGenerator to work with the tester, but I can't get it to compile. It seems that it was programmed while the interface of log_tm/TransactionInterfaceManager and system/Sequencer.C was still changing (from version 
1.4 to 2.0), and so there are many function calls that are not matched, and most of all, different functionality (such is the way retries/aborts are handled) that was present in gems 1.4 but is gone in 2.0. Can anybody confirm this?  I've tried to "update" it to the new interface of the xact manager, it seems to me that getting it to work with 
2.0 is not straightforward. Actually, the first thing I noticed is that XactRequestGenerator was commented out in ruby's Makefile, as well as some code in tester/RequestGenerator.C. And what about XactAbortRequestGenerator? 
Any comments on this will be appreciated,

Cheers,

Rubén


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Ruben Titos
Parallel Computing and Architecture Group (GACOP)
Computer Engineering Dept.
University of Murcia