Thank you for your time and for your assistance, I'll check it out.

Best Regards,
*Eng. Karim Soliman*
Teaching Assistant
Computer Engineering Department
Pharos University in Alexandria (P.U.A)


On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:13 AM Krishna, Tushar <tus...@ece.gatech.edu>
wrote:

> 0.02 flits/node/cycle is too low an injection rate for deadlocks. Try
> higher rates.
>
> I had created some labs in my NoC class in the past on deadlocks. It might
> be useful to take a look, esp Lab 3 on deadlocks.
> https://tusharkrishna.ece.gatech.edu/teaching/icn_s20/
>
> Some of the garnet repos from past papers from my group might be useful as
> well :
> https://github.com/noc-deadlock
>
> Cheers,
> Tushar
> On Apr 1, 2023, 12:12 AM -0400, Karim Soliman via gem5-users <
> gem5-users@gem5.org>, wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
> My research field is about NoC and I'm working on gem5/garnet 3.0
> standalone.
> For research purposes, I'm trying to push Garnet standalone protocol into
> deadlock or traffic congestion during the simulation of Mesh_XY topology.
> So, that's what i have done so far:
>  • topologies/Mesh_XY.py ==> I changed the weight of all the internal
> links to be 1, to allow the routing to select random output.
>  • mem/ruby/network/garnet/flitBuffer.cc ==> I reduced the max_size of the
> flit buffer to 2 instead of using INFINITE_ constant, by using
> setMaxSize(int size); method to apply this.
>  • cpu/testers/garnet_synthetic_traffic/GarnetSyntheticTraffic.py ==> I
> reduced response_limit to be 1000.
>  • cpu/testers/garnet_synthetic_traffic/GarnetSyntheticTraffic.cc ==> I
> used std::cout in the function doRetry() in order to check if there was any
> traffic congestion.
>  • I'm using only two virtual channels by setting the option of
> --vcs-per-vnet=2
> I rebuild gem5 using
> *sudo scons build/NULL/gem5.debug PROTOCOL=Garnet_standalone -j13*My
> simulation command is
> *sudo build/NULL/gem5.debug configs/example/garnet_synth_traffic.py
> --synthetic=uniform_random --network=garnet --num-cpus=16 --num-dirs=16
> --mesh-rows=4 --topology=Mesh_XY --sim-cycles=50000000
> --routing-algorithm=1 --vcs-per-vnet=2 --injectionrate=0.02*
> I re-simulated using higher injection rates with no output from the
> doRetry() method, and no deadlock happened, are there any parameters I
> should change?
>
>
>
> Best Regards,*Eng. Karim Soliman*Teaching AssistantComputer Engineering
> DepartmentPharos University in Alexandria (P.U.A)
>
>
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