I am trying to run the PARSEC workloads with the Garnet network model.
However, when I do, I get extremely low IPC. Could someone point out
what I'm doing wrong? Below are the steps I took

1) I am using the latest stable build (gem5-stable-549b72de8f72), as I
experienced problems with ruby_fs.py with the merged SE/FS development
build.
2) I built with command: scons build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt
PROTOCOL=MESI_CMP_directory RUBY=True
3) I changed the paths for files to ones provided on the PARSEC M5
site: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~parsec_m5/
3a) Changed linux-bigswap2,vmlinux, and the pal file paths in
configs/common/FSConfig.py
3b) Changed linux-latest path and memsize to 512MB in
configs/common/Benchmarks.py
4) Created .rcS scripts: "./writescripts.pl blackscholes 16 --ckpts"
5) Created initial checkpoint: "./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt
./configs/example/fs.py
--script=runscripts/blackscholes_16c_simlarge_ckpts.rcS -n 16
--checkpoint-dir=checkpoints --max-checkpoints=1"
6) Created additional checkpoints: "./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt -d
checkpoints ./configs/example/fs.py -n 16 --checkpoint-dir=checkpoints
--max-checkpoints=10 -r 1 --take-checkpoints=1B,1B"
7) Run with Ruby: "./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt --remote-gdb-port=0
./configs/example/ruby_fs.py -n 16 --checkpoint-dir=checkpoints
--l1i_size=32kB --l1d_size=32kB --l2_size=8MB --topology=Mesh --timing
--num-dirs=16 --mesh-rows=4 --num-l2caches=16  --garnet-network=fixed
-r 2 -m 10B"

I get statistics like:
system.cpu00.numCycles                     5498815881
   # number of cpu cycles simulated
system.cpu00.numWorkItemsStarted                    0
   # number of work items this cpu started
system.cpu00.numWorkItemsCompleted                  0
   # number of work items this cpu completed
system.cpu00.num_insts                        3714897
     # Number of instructions executed

This occurs no matter which checkpoint I load from, and for all the
PARSEC benchmarks I've tried (Blackscholes, Canneal, Fluidanimate,
Ferret, Streamcluster).

Any help is much appreciated
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