Re: [Gems-users] 0 L2 misses (MESI_SCMP_directory)


Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:07:53 -0600
From: Dan Gibson <degibson@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Gems-users] 0 L2 misses (MESI_SCMP_directory)
What commands do you issue to Simics before you load ruby?

Also, what versions of GEMS and Simics are you using?

wangzuo wrote:
> gems-users,您好!
>
> 	   I have run apache benmark using MESI_SCMP_directory protocol, and get such dump status information:
>
>
> ================ Begin System Configuration Print ================
>
> ......
>
> ================ End System Configuration Print ================
>
> Real time: Jan/17/2008 10:32:01
>
> Profiler Stats
> --------------
> Elapsed_time_in_seconds: 25
> Elapsed_time_in_minutes: 0.416667
> Elapsed_time_in_hours: 0.00694444
> Elapsed_time_in_days: 0.000289352
>
> Virtual_time_in_seconds: 12.25
> Virtual_time_in_minutes: 0.204167
> Virtual_time_in_hours:   0.00340278
> Virtual_time_in_days:    0.00340278
>
> Ruby_current_time: 193530
> Ruby_start_time: 1
> Ruby_cycles: 193529
>
> mbytes_resident: 348.613
> mbytes_total: 348.633
> resident_ratio: 1
>
> Total_misses: 0
> total_misses: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> user_misses: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> supervisor_misses: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
>
> instruction_executed: 2598495 [ 242009 13500 441166 738084 20083 9062 396331 738260 ]
> simics_cycles_executed: 6198160 [ 774119 774119 774332 775118 775118 775118 775118 775118 ]
> cycles_per_instruction: 0.595819 [ 0.799677 14.3355 0.438676 0.262205 9.63646 21.3561 0.488301 0.262142 ]
> misses_per_thousand_instructions: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
>
> transactions_started: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> transactions_ended: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> instructions_per_transaction: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> cycles_per_transaction: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
> misses_per_transaction: 0 [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
>
> L1D_cache cache stats: 
>   L1D_cache_total_misses: 8566
>   L1D_cache_total_demand_misses: 8566
>   L1D_cache_total_prefetches: 0
>   L1D_cache_total_sw_prefetches: 0
>   L1D_cache_total_hw_prefetches: 0
>   L1D_cache_misses_per_transaction: 8566
>   L1D_cache_misses_per_instruction: 0.00329653
>   L1D_cache_instructions_per_misses: 303.349
>
>   L1D_cache_request_type_LD:   68.3633%
>   L1D_cache_request_type_ST:   6.12888%
>   L1D_cache_request_type_ATOMIC:   25.5078%
>
>   L1D_cache_access_mode_type_SupervisorMode:   8039    93.8478%
>   L1D_cache_access_mode_type_UserMode:   527    6.15223%
>   L1D_cache_request_size: [binsize: log2 max: 64 count: 8566 average: 4.45646 | standard deviation: 2.99039 | 0 68 2869 3278 2343 0 0 8 ]
>
> L1I_cache cache stats: 
>   L1I_cache_total_misses: 2074
>   L1I_cache_total_demand_misses: 2074
>   L1I_cache_total_prefetches: 0
>   L1I_cache_total_sw_prefetches: 0
>   L1I_cache_total_hw_prefetches: 0
>   L1I_cache_misses_per_transaction: 2074
>   L1I_cache_misses_per_instruction: 0.000798156
>   L1I_cache_instructions_per_misses: 1252.89
>
>   L1I_cache_request_type_IFETCH:   100%
>
>   L1I_cache_access_mode_type_SupervisorMode:   1012    48.7946%
>   L1I_cache_access_mode_type_UserMode:   1062    51.2054%
>   L1I_cache_request_size: [binsize: log2 max: 4 count: 2074 average:     4 | standard deviation: 0 | 0 0 0 2074 ]
>
> L2_cache cache stats: 
>   L2_cache_total_misses: 0
>   L2_cache_total_demand_misses: 0
>   L2_cache_total_prefetches: 0
>   L2_cache_total_sw_prefetches: 0
>   L2_cache_total_hw_prefetches: 0
>   L2_cache_misses_per_transaction: 0
>   L2_cache_misses_per_instruction: 0
>   L2_cache_instructions_per_misses: NaN
>
>   L2_cache_request_size: [binsize: log2 max: 0 count: 0 average: NaN |standard deviation: NaN | 0 ]
>
> 		The L2 misses information is zero? what is wrong?
>
> 		I use tester.exec to trace how two simple instructions (load 0x400 by processor 4 and load 0x400 by processor1) excute under :
>
> Testing clear stats...Done.
> Reading trace from file 'little.trace'...
>       1   4  -1        Seq               Begin       >       [0x400, line 0x400] LD
>       4   0   4    L1Cache                Load     NP>IS     [0x400, line 0x400] 
>     136   0   0    L2Cache             L1_GETS     NP>ISS    [0x400, line 0x400] [NetDest (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0  - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - ]
>     261   0   0  Directory               Fetch      I>I      [0x400, line 0x400] 
>     503   0   0    L2Cache            Mem_Data    ISS>MT_MB  [0x400, line 0x400] 
>     737   4  -1        Seq                Done       >       [0x400, line 0x400] 736 cycles NULL LD Yes
>     737   0   4    L1Cache      Data_Exclusive     IS>E      [0x400, line 0x400] 
>     763   0   0    L2Cache   Exclusive_Unblock  MT_MB>MT     [0x400, line 0x400] 
>     801   1  -1        Seq               Begin       >       [0x300, line 0x300] LD
>     803   0   1    L1Cache                Load     NP>IS     [0x300, line 0x300] 
>     917   0   0    L2Cache             L1_GETS     NP>ISS    [0x300, line 0x300] [NetDest (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0  - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - ]
>    1042   0   4  Directory               Fetch      I>I      [0x300, line 0x300] 
>    1381   0   0    L2Cache            Mem_Data    ISS>MT_MB  [0x300, line 0x300] 
>    1496   1  -1        Seq                Done       >       [0x322, line 0x300] 695 cycles NULL LD Yes
>    1496   0   1    L1Cache      Data_Exclusive     IS>E      [0x300, line 0x300] 
>    1504   0   0    L2Cache   Exclusive_Unblock  MT_MB>MT     [0x300, line 0x300]
>
> 		I find somethings are not normal.L2 seems do not carry  L1_GETS action but send it to others "[NetDest (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0  - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  - ]". Can anyone tell me why? The following is what I get from the MOESI_CMP_directoy protocal by excuting the same two instructions.
>    
> 136   0   0    L2Cache             L1_GETS     NP>IGS    [0x400, line 0x400] 
> 261   0   0  Directory                GETS      I>IS     [0x400, line 0x400] 
>   
>
>         致
> 礼!
>  				
>
>         wangzuo
>         qiushui@xxxxxxxxxx
>           2008-01-17
>
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