No, but there are things connected to the simple cpu that you might not be scaling. There's the memory system, the devices, the frequency of various interrupts, etc. In syscall emulation mode, there's not much that needs to be scaled, but in full system, there's a whole lot.
Nate On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Paul Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just wondering if there is some performance degradation modeled for > the SimpleCPU as you keep increasing the clk frequency. I'm noticing in my > simulations that after 16GHz, it seems that performance starts to decrease. > > > > Thanks, > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > 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
