Hello Andreas,

I ran the tests again and they result in similar errors (magnitude error %)
in stats. When I don't specify the paths to system files, tests fail
complaining about system files path. I ran tests on my local Ubuntu (14.04)
as well as on a CentOS 5 server, both result in similar errors. Though none
of the tests fail, I don't have clean regression tests (I only tried quick
ones). I have following gem5 commit:

*changeset:   10667:e17949745150*
*tag:         tip*
*user:        Malek Musleh <[email protected]
<[email protected]>>*
*date:        Fri Jan 30 15:49:34 2015 -0600*
*summary:     config: arm: fix os_flags*

All I did was cloned gem5-dev repository, compiled ARM opt binary (scons
build/ARM/gem5.opt), downloaded system files, placed the binaries and disks
folder in *system* folder, pointed to the *system* folder in SysPaths.py,
and then ran quick regressions (scons build/ARM/tests/opt/quick).

Any help to resolve this issue would be great.

Thank you,
-Rizwana

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Andreas,
>
> I ran tests on clean repo (without any source code modifications),
> however, I had modified SysPaths.py to point to binaries, disks downloaded
> from gem5 download page (ARM Full-System Files
> <http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz>). I am
> not sure, if that caused the tests to use different kernel/disk image than
> the default ones. I compiled opt binary and ran quick tests on opt (scons
> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick).
>
> I am running tests now without modifications to SysPaths.py. I will let
> you know if my results would change.
>
> Thank you,
> -Rizwana
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>
>>  There should be no stats changes at all on the trunk. The regression
>> runs from yesterday confirms this as well. Are you sure you ran with a
>> clean repo?
>>
>>  Andreas
>>
>>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:44
>> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>
>>  Hello Andreas,
>>
>>  Yes, the condition will still consider bank conflicts for open-adaptive
>> policy.
>>
>>  I made the fix and ran quick regression tests for ARM. All of the tests
>> passed, however there are some errors(in % difference) in results. Here is
>> the output before and after the fix (grep for error):
>>
>>  *gem5-dev tip (before fix):*
>>  Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +89.743590%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>
>>  *With fix:*
>>  Maximum error magnitude: +6.666667%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +38.862333%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +89.743590%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>
>>  Is this a concern? or can I ignore these errors?
>>
>>  PS: Attached full output of quick regression tests.
>>
>>  Thank you,
>> -Rizwana
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>>
>>>  I look forward to see the patch.
>>>
>>>  Note that open-adaptive and closed-adaptive behave differently. In the
>>> open case we only close if there is no hit, and there is a bank conflict.
>>> For the closed one we close if there are no hits (ignoring if there are
>>> conflicts or not). If this is till captured then by all means go ahead and
>>> simplify the code. Perhaps add some more comments to make this more clear.
>>>
>>>  Andreas
>>>
>>>   From: Rizwana Begum via gem5-users <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>, gem5 users mailing
>>> list <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 05:01
>>> To: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>>
>>>  Hello All,
>>>
>>>  I think the if condition that's checking to find the right condition
>>> for auto-precharge in doDRAMAccess() can be simplified
>>>
>>>  Original :
>>>        while (!(got_more_hits &&
>>>                   (got_bank_conflict || pageMgmt ==
>>> Enums::close_adaptive)) &&
>>>                p != queue.end()) {
>>>
>>>  Simplified:
>>>         while (!got_more_hits && p != queue.end()) {
>>>
>>>  The above simplification comes as both close-adaptive and
>>> open-adaptive policies keep row open if a hit is found. Otherwise the
>>> search for a hit continues until the end of the queue and during the search
>>> got_bank_conflict gets updated anyways.
>>>
>>>  I am planning to put this simplification on reviewboard (along with
>>> another bug fix that I have). I would appreciate it if anyone using DRAM
>>> controller has any comments regarding this simplification.
>>>
>>>  Thank you,
>>> -Rizwana
>>>
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