On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Ali Saidi wrote:
Hi Nilay,
I think the point that Andreas is trying to make is that traffic
generators are useful for more than testing and people want to to use
traffic generators to inject traffic into the systems (many systems have
lots of other traffic going through them, not just CPU traffic). The
traffic generator we posted lets the user specifies a configuration file
that describes what kind of traffic that generator will generate. You
can create infinite different configurations including one that emulates
an hdlcd controller, video encoders or decoders, etc. Anyone who is
interested in a client system should be interested in traffic from other
components in the system and this traffic generator is a good way to
produce some traffic for that purpose. It's far more configurable than
the testers that currently are in gem5.
The meta-question I have is, why do you care that much? It's a
reasonably small piece of code that is well documented and comes with a
set of regression tests. It seems like exactly the thing we want in the
repository.
Since we already have some traffic generators in place, we should be
upgrading those if possible. I would prefer if we have only a single way
to generate a given type of traffic.
--
Nilay
_______________________________________________
gem5-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
