Hi all I am trying to understand the output that M5 produces. I am running my program with m5 (v2.05) in x86 Syscall emulation mode. At the end of the simulation M5 writes a line that says that 'Target exited at cycle xyz since it called exit()'. The value xyz reported corresponds to the sim_ticks value in m5stats.txt. What I noticed is a 1-1 correlation between CPU frequency / CPU width and the sim_ticks value.
What I mean is this: For a fixed workload, if I double the frequency or width values, the sim_ticks value reported at the end of the simulation is reduced by half. Which stat should I be using it as a measure of performance? Is there a page on the m5 wiki that gives details on the output stats and the way to interpret it? I wasn't able to locate any. -- Ananth Narayan S _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
