I'm going to be gone starting on Wednesday until Sept. 6th, so I won't have a chance to take a look at the regression errors before hand. I'll try to take a look when I come back.
Kevin Quoting Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From the release notes the following are still outstanding for a 2.0 > release. I don't really care about the Cygwin problems and I'm not > sure that anyone else does, so I move to strike those. Additionally, > we made the repository public so that one is gone. > > I think the three things that need to be fixed are: > O3 CPU -- SMT SE regression hits an assert; bug causing perlbmk to > fail (Gabe reported this in April 2007 and I don't know if it's still > a problem http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/221); NACKs/coherence > messages > > Statistics -- The CPU statistics are confusing. I think the idle time > in the simple CPU can still be wrong after a CPU switch and it's at > least not clear to me which idles mean quiesced time or idle because > of other things (blocked in the O3 case, not switched out in the > simple case); The bus needs statistics; I don't know if the cache > statistics are reasonable. > > Testing -- I've at least done a fair amount of testing over the last > month or two, so I'm pretty happy with that. I think some validation > needs to be done on an statistics changes though. > > Ali > > > > 1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails > 2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages > 3. Better statistics for the caches. > 4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin > 5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin > 6. Make repository public > 7. Testing > 8. Validation > > > On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ali Saidi wrote: > >> Everyone should hold off pushing patches to the dev tree for the next >> two weeks so we can create a new stable release. Please only push >> fixes to known problems and test the repository in the next two weeks. >> >> Thanks, >> Ali >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
