There is no thread scheduler in SE mode, so you can't have more threads than
cores.

For a little more information, see this wiki page:
http://m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Splash_benchmarks

Steve

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Bob Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Nate thanks for your answer, what do you mean with very limited, for
> example I got a program with 8 threads and I want two threads per core, is
> it possible do that?. And if does can you post some sample code about
> managing threads in the simulator, or where I can find that info, thank you
> so much again.
>
> 2008/10/10 nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Yes, this is true.  Just so you know though, currently we only support
>> a very limited form of threading in SE mode right now to support
>> splash.  I have lofty goals of getting pthreads working, but it will
>> be a few months.  If you want to help, let me know.  There is an
>> existing user level pthreads implementation that we can leverage to
>> make it work.
>>
>>  Nate
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Bob Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hello:
>> >
>> > I got a couple of questions about the collaboration of different cores
>> in
>> > the same program:
>> >
>> > If I write the code like this for a Hello World program:
>> >
>> >     MyOwnProcess = process()
>> >     system.cpu[i].workload = MyOwnProcess
>> >
>> > Then I get one output per core, so does this code mean that each core
>> has
>> > its own copy of the program?
>> >
>> >
>> > And If i write the code like this:
>> >
>> >    system.cpu[i].workload = process
>> >
>> > Then I get only one Hello World, so I understand that all the cores are
>> > collaborating in the same copy of the program?.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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