It can be a significant effort to correlate a set of gem5 configurations to
a specific target, the following work did for a A-15 based platform,
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier/papers/ispass_2014.pdf

Jack

Jack Harvard


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Stian Hvatum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to model a single Cortex-A9 as featured in the Exynos4412
> using this configuration: http://pastebin.com/t1AU4D7H
>
> I wonder if someone else has modelled a similar processor or has any
> knowledge about the parameters, and is able to help me with the
> configuration. Using the current configuration I get some performance
> discepancy compared to the real hardware. The configuration string used to
> run gem5 (stable) is the following:
>
> {..}gem5.opt --debug-flags=Cache,MemoryAccess,Exec,-ExecSymbol
> --remote-gdb-port=0 --debug-file=trace.out -d m5out/add-adc
> {..}configs/example/se.py -c bin/binary --cpu-type=exynos_4412p
> --mem-type=LPDDR2_S4_1066_x32 --sys-clock=400MHz --cpu-clock=1700MHz
> --num-l3caches=0 --caches --l2cache --l2_assoc=16 --l1d_size=32kB
> --l2_size=1MB --mem-size=2048MB
>
> Small loops with integer operations are slightly faster on hardware (~
> 25%), while general benchmarks are slightly faster in the simulator (~
> 25%). I wonder if this might be due to memory misconfiguration and that the
> Fast-loop-mode featured in the Cortex-A9 seems to be missing from gem5?
>
> Best regards,
> Stian Hvatum
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