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(Updated June 24, 2015, 11:56 p.m.)


Review request for Default.


Repository: gem5


Description
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Multi gem5 is an extension to gem5 to enable parallel simulation of a
distributed system (e.g. simulation of a pool of machines
connected by Ethernet links). A multi gem5 run consists of seperate gem5
processes running in parallel (potentially on different hosts/slots on
a cluster). Each gem5 process executes the simulation of a component of the
simulated distributed system (e.g. a multi-core board with an Ethernet NIC).

The patch implements the "distributed" Ethernet link device
(dev/src/multi_etherlink.[hh.cc]). This device will send/receive
(simulated) Ethernet packets to/from peer gem5 processes. The interface
to talk to the peer gem5 processes is defined in dev/src/multi_iface.hh and
in tcp_iface.hh.

There is also a central message server process (util/multi/tcp_server.[hh,cc])
which acts like an Ethernet switch and transfers messages among the gem5 peers.

A multi gem5 simulations can be kicked off by the util/multi/gem5-multi.sh
wrapper script.

Checkpoint support will follow in a subsequent patch.


Diffs (updated)
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  src/dev/Ethernet.py d02b45a554b52c68cce41e1b3895fb8582a639dd 
  src/dev/SConscript d02b45a554b52c68cce41e1b3895fb8582a639dd 
  src/dev/etherpkt.hh d02b45a554b52c68cce41e1b3895fb8582a639dd 
  src/dev/etherpkt.cc d02b45a554b52c68cce41e1b3895fb8582a639dd 
  src/dev/multi_etherlink.hh PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/multi_etherlink.cc PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/multi_iface.hh PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/multi_iface.cc PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/multi_packet.hh PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/multi_packet.cc PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/tcp_iface.hh PRE-CREATION 
  src/dev/tcp_iface.cc PRE-CREATION 
  util/multi/Makefile PRE-CREATION 
  util/multi/bootscript.rcS PRE-CREATION 
  util/multi/gem5-multi.sh PRE-CREATION 
  util/multi/tcp_server.hh PRE-CREATION 
  util/multi/tcp_server.cc PRE-CREATION 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2826/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Curtis Dunham

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