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So would this replace memtest.py?  If so, then factoring out the common code 
would not be an issue.  If not, why not?

- Steve Reinhardt


On Feb. 3, 2015, 11:57 a.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 3, 2015, 11:57 a.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 10692:f0a93f672561
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> config: Add memcheck stress test
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> This is a rather unfortunate copy of the memtest.py example script,
> that actually stresses the system with true sharing as opposed to the
> false sharing of the MemTest. To do so it uses TrafficGen instances to
> generate the reads/writes, and MemCheckerMonitor combined with the
> MemChecker to check the validity of the read/written values.
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> As a bonus, this script also enables the addition of prefetchers, and
> the traffic is created to have a mix of random addresses and linear
> strides. We use the TaggedPrefetcher since the packets do not have a
> request with a PC.
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> At the moment the code is almost identical to the memtest.py script,
> and no effort has been made to factor out the construction of the
> tree. The challenge is that the instantiation and connection of the
> testers and monitors is done as part of the tree building.
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> Diffs
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>   configs/example/memcheck.py PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2626/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Hansson
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