Hi all, Hopefully everyone is enjoying the new-and-improved in-order ‘minor’ CPU model. As you may have noticed, at the moment both of the in-order CPU models are used in the regression flow. The old ‘inorder’ is primarily used for alpha (and the odd mips and sparc regression), with the new ‘minor’ model used far more extensively for both arm and alpha. As we run both ‘inorder' and ‘minor’, a full regression has increased from a total of 13 - 14 hours to 17 - 18 hours. In practical terms that means that a regression run started in the evening (when leaving work) is no longer finished the morning after. To remedy the regression run-time issue, and also focus our development efforts on the ‘minor’ model, I propose the following time table:
August (now) Remove ‘inorder' regressions and add deprecation warning when instantiating ‘in order’ CPUs instructing the user to shift to using ‘minor'. Send out e-mail to user list. September Remove the ‘inorder' code from the repository. Another e-mail announcement to both user and dev list. October Rename ‘minor' to ‘inorder'. What are your thoughts on this timeline? Does it all sounds reasonable? Thanks, Andreas -- 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. ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590 ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782 _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
