Re: [Gems-users] Gems Questions

[Jayaram Bobba <bobba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need a  new simics command to ruby (similar to "dump-stats").
Quoting from our internal wiki (entry made by Dan Gibson)

  1.

     Decide name of command, arguments, etc.

  2.

     Add an entry for your command to module/commands.py.

  3.

     Add a RUBY_COMMAND([COMMAND_NAME]) macro in module/ruby.c.

  4.

     Update module/ruby.c's ruby_session_set() function to check for
     the new command.

  5.

     Add a declaration of [FUNCTION_NAME] to simics/commands.h.

  6.

     Implement [FUNCTION_NAME] in simics/commands.C.

Jayaram

Fuad Tabba wrote:
> Thanks Jayaram, that was informative.
>
> A (maybe trivial) question; how do I call SIMICS_remove_timing_model() 
> from inside a simics script?
> Cheers,
> /Fuad
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jayaram Bobba <bobba@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:bobba@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     Fuad Tabba wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Was wondering if anyone could help me with any of the following:-
>     >
>     > - Are SIMICS_BEGIN_BARRIER or SIMICS_END_BARRIER important for a
>     > simulation to run properly? Or are they just used for giving better
>     > tracing information. By inspecting commands.C it seems to me that
>     > they're only used for visualization, but without them LogTM acts up!
>     They are just used for collecting some stats/visualization. It is
>     strange that they impact your simulations.
>     > - I found that disabling interrupts on the running processors (using
>     > psrset -f) helps with the simulation running smoother.  Is there
>     good
>     > reason why I should *not* be doing that?
>     >
>     It might be ok to disable interrupts while you are running
>     microbenchmarks and small programs. For larger workloads and workloads
>     with system activity, the OS might freak out if some interrupts (like
>     TLB shootdowns) are not handled in a timely manner.
>     > - I couldn't find a difference between using processor_bind or
>     > pset_bind. Looking at the man pages they seem to do the same
>     thing. I
>     > prefer processor_bind because it doesn't require root access, so
>     I can
>     > use it on the real sparc machine I run the software benchmarks on
>     > without having to go through the hassle of asking for the right
>     > privileges. Is there a reason why creating cabinets and binding them
>     > with pset_bind is preferable?
>     http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_processor.html
>     I think pset_bind gives stronger guarantees about non-interference
>     from
>     OS threads...
>     >
>     > - Is there a way to unload ruby? Or at least speed it up (while
>     > sacrificing statistics or something)? The reason I'm asking is that
>     > after running the benchmarks I normally like to run some sanity
>     checks
>     > and collect statistics from the data structures. This step takes
>     place
>     > on only one processor, and I don't have any need for the ruby
>     features
>     > at that point. Currently this step takes a lot of time (almost 25%).
>     > Is there a way I could speed it up?
>     https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/gems-users/2006-September/msg00008.shtml
>
>     Jayaram
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