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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Emilio Castillo


On Oct. 30, 2013, 1:14 p.m., Emilio Castillo wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 30, 2013, 1:14 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> This patch fixes a problem where in Garnet, the enqueue time in the 
> VCallocator and the SWallocator
> which is of type Cycles was being stored inside a variable with int type.
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> This lead to a known problem restoring checkpoints with garnet & the fixed 
> pipeline enabled.
> That value was really big and didn't fit in the variable overflowing it, 
> therefore some conditions on the VC allocation stage & the SW allocation stage
> were not met and the packets didn't advance through the network, leading to a 
> deadlock panic right after the checkpoint was restored.
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> Diffs
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>   src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/SWallocator_d.cc cd0a9c975c8c 
>   src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/VCallocator_d.cc cd0a9c975c8c 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2074/diff/
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> Testing
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> Originally the checkpoint was obtained in the atomic mode by doing some like 
> this:
> build/X86/gem5.opt configs/example/fs.py -n 16 
> --script=canneal_16c_simsmall.rcS --kernel=x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.28.4-smp  
> --disk-image=x86root.img
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> The m5checkpoint instruction is somewhere the binary i'm executing.
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> The checkpoint was restored with:
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> build/X86_MESI_CMP_directory/gem5.opt configs/example/ruby_fs.py -n 16 
> --kernel=x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.28.4-smp  --disk-image=x86root.img -r1 
> --num-l2cache=16 --num-dir=16 --topo=Mesh --mesh-rows=4 --restore-with=timing 
> --garnet=fixed         
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> Thanks,
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> Emilio Castillo
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