What version of gem5 and what architecture/benchmark/os are you running? You should be able to make a checkpoint with 1, 2, or 4 cores (or as many as the particular system/platform supports). Booting without caches should work just as well as booting with caches.
You should create a checkpoint with the number of cores you wish to restore from. Ali On Aug 31, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Xiangyang Guo <ece...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use the Simple CPU to boot up for FS. I also want to use 2 cores to > runt he simulation. When I use 2 cores to boot my system, it takes about 6 > hours and it still running. From the frame buffer, and I can see it stops at > some place. If I use 1 core to boot up, it will take about 1-2 hours. So > could I know if I can use 2 cores to make checkpoint? I guess if we want to > use 2 core , we should enable caches, but we should disable caches to make > checkpoint, that's why it cannot boot up successfully, please correct me if > I'm wrong. > > If we cannot make checkpoint with 2 cores, can we restart the simulation from > the checkpoint with 2 cores while we use 1 core to make checkpoint? I tried > this and it seems that there are inst to be executed, but the frame buffer > stay at the one pic and never change. > > Thanks for your time. > > Regards > > Xiangyang > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
