Hi Andreas,

Here are the ones that changed:

*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-atomic
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-atomic-dual
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-timing
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-timing-dual
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-atomic
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-atomic
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-atomic-dual
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-timing
CHANGED!
*****
build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-timing-dual
CHANGED!
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build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-switcheroo-atomic
CHANGED!

Thank you,
-Rizwana

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Hi Rizwana,
>
>  That doesn’t sound good. Let me double check the system files.
>
>  Which regressions are “changed"?
>
>  Andreas
>
>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:01
>
> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>
>  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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