I think no.. You can check for yourself, i am not sure.
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Mukherjee, Somnath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hassan, > Thanks, I understand. > > Once the simpoint analysis output is generated, is there a way I can feed > that to "any" simulator? Is there a special feature that's required to be > implemented in simulator to handle the simpoint analyzed output? For example, > did gem5 need anything special apart from "checkpointing" to handle simpoint > analyzed output? > > Regards, > Somnath > > -----Original Message----- > From: gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hassan > yamin > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 12:03 PM > To: gem5 users mailing list > Subject: Re: [gem5-users] SimPoint with gem5 > > Actually *Simpoint* tells u the representative region of the program, lets > say the program has 100 billion instructions, so the simpoint analysis will > tell u the chunk (of lets say 50 Million) instructions from 15 billionth > instruction is a good representative of the program behaviour. You will then > fast forward to 15th billion instruction and simulate lets say 100M insts... > > See the pinpoint tool. Gem5 cannot generate simpoints, you will have to use > the simpoint tool from UCSD.. > Simpoint is basically a number... > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Mukherjee, Somnath <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Hassan, >> >> Thanks for the useful information. >> >> >> >> My intention is to get this working on ARM. >> >> >> >> I will go through the ppt you referred. >> >> One quick question: >> >> After the BBV is generated and SimPoint analysis is done, can I feed >> that output to “any” simulator? Or the simulator platform should have >> some specific intelligence to parse through the SimPoint output? How >> good is gem5 to handle the SimPoint outputs? I think you said it’s >> very slow. Will it be functionally okay for multi-core ARM platform? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Somnath >> >> >> >> From: gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> hassan yamin >> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 12:27 AM >> >> >> To: gem5 users mailing list >> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] SimPoint with gem5 >> >> >> >> I used it for x86. However, simpoints are platform independent, they >> just tell u about representative regions of the programs/ benchmarks. >> >> >> >> Look into pinpoints from Intel. Its a free tool. See their isca2014 ppt.. >> you will get started in just an hour. >> >> >> >> After getting bbv files u need to run simpoints tool from ucsd which i >> think is also old. >> >> >> >> Look into pinpoints isca2014 ppt... they have also given the command >> lines to generate whole programs pinballs, bbv file and simpoints.. >> >> >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> >> -hassan >> >> >> >> On Jul 6, 2017 2:00 AM, "Mukherjee, Somnath" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Hassan, >> >> Thanks for the information. >> >> >> >> So which processor you used it for – x86? >> >> >> >> When you said the following: >> >>> Its old and very very slow method and i am not sure that it works or not. >> >> Do you mean that BBV generation process is slow on gem5? >> >> Will it work okay, if I already have the BBV generated? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Somnath >> >> >> >> From: gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> hassan yamin >> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:07 PM >> >> >> To: gem5 users mailing list >> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] SimPoint with gem5 >> >> >> >> Hi. I have used simpoints with gem5. However i used pinplay to >> generate simpoints for the benchmarks. Gem5 is not recommended for >> generating simpoints. Its old and very very slow method and i am not >> sure that it works or not. >> >> >> >> -Hassan >> >> >> >> On Jul 5, 2017 8:59 PM, "Mukherjee, Somnath" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Mahmood, >> >> Thanks a lot for the link. No, I didn’t see it before. >> >> Just wanted to know have you used it before - what are the pros/cons? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Somnath >> >> >> >> From: gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Mahmood Naderan >> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 5:10 PM >> To: gem5 users mailing list >> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] SimPoint with gem5 >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Have you read http://gem5.org/Simpoints ? >> >> >> Regards, >> Mahmood >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Mukherjee, Somnath <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Friends, >> >> A rather short message – wanted to know if anyone has used SimPoint with >> gem5? J >> >> https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/research/simpoint.html >> >> >> >> If yes, can you share any links, documents, code snippets etc.? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Somnath Mukherjee >> >> Bangalore >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
