Hello,

Setting the required frequency in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed should not be in gem5
sources files. It can be done in a program (written in C, shell script or
any other language)
and running under Linux  in FS mode.

Regards
Yahia

2015-04-15 16:55 GMT+02:00 Nimish Girdhar <nimi...@tamu.edu>:

> Thanks Yahia for sharing that.
>
> Can you explain a bit more as I don't have much experience with that.
>
> Let's say I have some algo to decide the cpu freq in gem5
> SRC/CPU/O3/commit_impl.hh... How can I set the file you mentioned to that
> freq from here??
>
> Thanks,
> On Apr 15, 2015 2:53 AM, "Yahia Benmoussa" <yahia.benmou...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> You have to enable userspace governor in your kernel then you can scale
>> the CPU frequency by setting
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed file. It should work.
>>
>> Regards.
>> Yahia
>>
>>
>> 2015-04-15 4:00 GMT+02:00 Nimish Girdhar <nimi...@tamu.edu>:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am working on a project where I have to use DVFS to change the
>>> frequency of cores based on my evaluation of some counters that I inserted
>>> in the gem5 o3 cpu src code.
>>>
>>> I followed the guidelines given on
>>> http://www.m5sim.org/Running_gem5#Experimenting_with_DVFS .
>>> But with these steps, the kernel will be the one who decides the
>>> performance levels of the cores at different point of time. But in my case
>>> I want to decide the levels based on some counters as mentioned above.
>>>
>>> Has anybody tried anything similar to that? I want to know how can I
>>> access and update the dvfs handler registers from within the cpu src code.
>>>
>>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Warm regards
>>> Nimish Girdhar
>>> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>> Texas A&M University
>>>
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