I agree there are a lot of good reasons why we should eventually move all ruby stats to gem5 stats. I just want to make sure we provide the same information in the same concise format. When doing protocol performance debugging, we really depend on those stats.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Nilay Vaish [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:48 AM > To: Beckmann, Brad > Cc: Default > Subject: Re: Review Request: Ruby: convert cache memory stats to gem5's > style > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Brad Beckmann wrote: > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > > http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1293/#review3076 > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Nilay, can you hold off checking this patch in until I commit my > > changes. We have a lot of internal code that uses the current Cache > > Profiler that I'll need to change. I'd rather not do that in the next > > few weeks. > > > > This patch reminds me of a larger question that is worth revisiting. > > Is now the time to convert Ruby stats to gem5 stats, since gem5 stats > > are now python objects and can potentially be outputted in any format. > > The last half of that statement may be a streach, so please correct me > > if that's untrue. As you know, I've been relucant to convert Ruby > > stats to gem5 stats because many Ruby stats are useful in the > > debugging process, and Ruby's more condense format is much more > readable. > > Meanwhile, the default gem5 stats format is optimized for data > > extraction. If we could use the new python support to generate an > > output file that looks a lot like the current ruby.stats file, then > > now maybe a good time to switch. This is probably a better topic for > > a separate thread, but I wanted to mention that thought before I forgot. > > > > - Brad Beckmann > > > > > > One reason why I would like to convert to gem5' style statistics is the > inability > of reset ruby' statistics as of now. This is something that several users have > reported in recent past. > > -- > Nilay > > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
