Most?

Ali

On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Strong wrote:

> Updating gem5 to the current version appears to have removed most of the 
> errors. Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Best,
> -Rick
> 
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> 
> I just committed a fix that addresses an issue I found with newer kernels and 
> our ide disk, but I haven't seen this one. It's possible that they're 
> related, so you might want to try it. 
> 
> Ali
> 
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> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:03:39 -0700, Richard Strong <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I was doing an experiment with the Berkeley DB benchmark ex_tpc. What I 
>> notice is that increasing the disk latency from 1us to 10us causes the 
>> following: panic in a vanilla kernel:
>> 
>> panic: Inconsistent DMA transfer state: dmaState = 2 devState = 0
>> 
>> In addition, I notice that if I bind network and disk interrupts to a core, 
>> this error occurs in twice as many cases. The tested simulation featured two 
>> m5 default setting O3 cores (I have also seen the same DMA problem with 
>> simpler O3 models and the TimingSimpleCPU), the vanilla 2.6.27 m5 kernel  
>> and a 3 level cache (using the MESI express snoop protocol). I am currently 
>> running gem5-changeset:8339. 
>> 
>> I have also found this thread which seems to have a similar problem, but 
>> considers the x86 ISA and mentions that the APIC is the heart of the problem.
>> 
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03192.html
>> 
>> If anyone happens to know how to fix the problem or efficient documentation 
>> on how Ide works, your thoughts and words would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Rick
>> 
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