I think option number two would be trivial. The new traffic generator could easily get another state for what ever behaviour we want. I also think the states that are already there provide a very good starting point.
If everyone agrees with this I'd be happy to transition things over to the new traffic gen. Andreas On 24/08/2012 23:28, "nathan binkert" <[email protected]> wrote: >I think the concern is of having a collection of similar, but slightly >different testers. Something that focuses on doing say coherence >protocol testing is different, but it seems odd to have more than one >traffic generator that generates random traffic is not a good choice. >Can you add your functionality to the existing one or add the existing > one's functionality to yours and just delete it? > > Nate > >On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Andreas Hansson ><[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Nilay, >> >> Ok. Could you perhaps show how to make a traffic generator that would >> create something along the lines of an HDLCD controller: >> >> 850 Mbyte/s read to a specific address range for time T1, then idling >>for >> T2. Repeat the above. >> >> The whole point is to mimic the traffic of real IP components that we do >> not yet have models for. >> >> I am not sure I understand how to do something like this with what is >> there at the moment. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andreas >> >> >> On 24/08/2012 22:21, "Nilay Vaish" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Andreas Hansson wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Nilay, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the clarification. I am sure these testers could be useful >>>>for >>>> the classic memory system, but they do not provide the functionality >>>>of >>>> the current traffic generator. >>>> >>>> Agreed? >>>> >>> >>>Nope, I disagree. Ruby testers do support testing with random addresses, >>>linear address sweeping. And I have a patch for testing with traces. >>> >>>-- >>>Nilay >>>_______________________________________________ >>>gem5-dev mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >>> >> >> >> -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are >>confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >>recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the >>contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy >>the information in any medium. Thank you. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >_______________________________________________ >gem5-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
