I haven't used it, but I believe you're right that the simpoint support in
the configuration scripts is designed to generate and restore from
checkpoints at known simpoints and nothing else.

Steve

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM, William George Beazley Jr <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Within m5 is simpoint (or can be) used apart from checkpointing?
>
> So far the only interesting uses of simpoint is from Simulation.py and
> it is tied to checkpointing:
>  checkpoint_inst = int(testsys.cpu[i].workload[0].simpoint) + offset
>
> and the related options file entry:
> parser.add_option("-S", "--simpoint", action="store_true",
> default=False,
>    help="""Use workload simpoints as an instruction offset for
> --checkpoint-restore or --take-checkpoint.""")
>
> And tons of settings for it with cpu2000.py
>
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