Rick,
do we want to create new SMT threads or do we want to create new
threads on a different O3 CPU?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you take a look at the flyspray bugs I posted based on this you'll see
> that they're still outstanding:
>
> http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/317
> http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/318
>
> As the comments on these bug reports show, I tried a simple fix but it
> didn't work.  The code for deciding when you can allocate new threads on the
> fly in O3 is basically broken (looks like it was never tested).  At the time
> a general fix by anyone other than Korey looked too complicated.  I don't
> know if Korey's looked into it or not (Korey?).
>
> It could be that if you don't want to use SMT then coming up with a fix that
> works only for the 0->1 transition might be easier, but of course a more
> general fix for N->N+1 would be better yet.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Rick Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So I tried to run splash benchmarks with more than 1 O3 cpu, and I get
>> the error message, "nxm_threade_create: no idle contexts available". It
>> appears that the O3CPU thread contexts are not being set to unallocated
>> according to some emails I saw involving Sujay Phadke. Did we ever
>> commit the fix to the O3CPU? If so, i don't see it.
>>
>> Best,
>> -Rick
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University of Michigan
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