> On 2011-03-18 18:30:07, Gabe Black wrote:
> > configs/example/se.py, line 83
> > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/598/diff/1/?file=11044#file11044line83>
> >
> >     Splitting on "," would be a little more standard.
> 
> Lisa Hsu wrote:
>     True.  I have a moderately good reason for this.  When creating an 
> aggregated checkpoint, the aggregate script makes cpt.b1-b2-b3.XXXXX.  So, if 
> you hand your argument over as --bench b1-b2-b3, no finagling is necessary to 
> be able to find the appropriate checkpoint, it just takes the options.bench 
> string and looks for it, exactly the same as a uniprocessor checkpoint 
> restore situation.  Splitting on commas would mean later overwriting the 
> options.bench param to hand over to Simulation.py to find an aggregated 
> checkpoint or doing some other such thing to make things understood.  This 
> just seemed easier, even if it is a little non-traditional.  I'd prefer to 
> keep it this way.

Eh, this seems like optimizing for a coincidence instead of making things work 
like people expect (and other parts of M5 already do). It would also be 
ambiguous if a benchmark had a "-" as part of its name some day.


- Gabe


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On 2011-03-18 16:06:02, Lisa Hsu wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-03-18 16:06:02)
> 
> 
> Review request for Default, Ali Saidi, Gabe Black, Steve Reinhardt, and 
> Nathan Binkert.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> se.py: Modify script to make multiprogramming much easier.
> Now, instead of --bench benchname, you can do --bench bench1-bench2-bench3 
> and it will
> set up a simulation that instantiates those three workloads.  Only caveat is 
> that now,
> for sanity checking, your -n X must match the number of benches in the list.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   configs/example/se.py b0ecadb07742 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/598/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lisa
> 
>

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