Re: [Gems-users] Reg. RUBY randomization

[Arkaprava Basu <basu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Niranjan,

               There is a dynamically configurable parameter called 
"g_RANDOM_SEED" . For different values of this parameter ruby will 
produce slightly different timing for the accesses. For same values of 
"g_RANDOM_SEED" ruby will generate exactly same timings for all the 
accesses ( i.e. you will see same Ruby_cycles etc) . So to get an effect 
of randomization of access latencies across different runs, set 
g_RANDOM_SEED to different integral values.
By un-setting MEM_FIXED_DELAY you just tell ruby to properly model the 
DRAM latencies instead of returning exact same delay  for each DRAM 
accesses ( it models things like bank contention etc , when 
MEM_FIXED_DELAY is not set ) .  But this does NOT buy you any 
randomization across different runs of the simulation.

I hope this helps,

Thanks
Arka

niranjan soundararajan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On GEMS 2.1, does setting MEM_FIXED_DELAY = 0 alone take care of randomizing
> the memory hierarchy. Is there additional variables that need to be set?
>
> Thank you,
> Niranjan
>
>
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