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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > -- ---------- Korey L Sewell Graduate Student - PhD Candidate Computer Science & Engineering University of Michigan _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
