Try this patch. I never got around to testing it properly. It it
highly likely that would have to make the changes manually. But it is
a pretty small patch.

-Soumyaroop

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Maximilien Breughe
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Soumyaroop,
>
> I'm afraid that the dev branch gives me the same results.. (I've pulled
> everything with Mercurial from http://repo.m5sim.org/m5/ and it gives me
> the same error).
> I'll try to gdb it a little bit more. You were talking about a patch? Or
> is it already in the dev branch?
>
> You might be right about the L1 hit latency. But for an inorder cpu this
> would mean that the front end could be a bottleneck since we would only
> have a front end fill rate of 1 instruction each 2 cycles.
>
> best regards,
> Max
>
> On 01/19/2010 03:17 PM, soumyaroop roy wrote:
>> Hi Max,
>>
>> Please see if the problem persists with the dev branch. There is a bug
>> with recvRetry() which is causing applu, gcc, and perlbmk to fail
>> (ref.  inorder test status page through the inorder documentation
>> page: http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/InOrder) even in the default
>> configuration (i.e. L1 hit latency 2 cycles, etc.). Korey has a patch
>> to fix it but it is currently untested.
>>
>> Btw, a best case L1 hit latency of 2 cycles is not unrealistic for
>> high perf. processors (e.g. PowerPC MPC7450 family). Perhaps, somebody
>> else can comment on this for inorder processors.
>>
>> regards,
>> Soumyaroop
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Maximilien Breughe
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem to use the InOrderCPU core with an L2 cache when
>>> adjusting the I-L1-latency.
>>> Is there anyone else who countered the same problem?
>>> I use ALPHA_SE and the latest stable M5-version.
>>>
>>> Description:
>>> -----------------
>>> I configured my CPU to run at 2GHz. The default value of the Instruction
>>> L1-latency is 1 ns. This means that it would take 2 clock-cycles of the
>>> CPU to get something from the instruction L1 cache, which is unrealistic.
>>> Therefore I can either adjust the CPU's clock frequency to 1GHz or
>>> adjust the latency of the L1 cache to 0.5ns. When using the second
>>> option I get the following error when I also add an L2-cache:
>>>
>>> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
>>> m5.opt: build/ALPHA_SE/cpu/inorder/resources/cache_unit.cc:722: void
>>> CacheUnit::recvRetry(): Assertion `cacheBlocked' failed.
>>> Program aborted at cycle 39145001
>>>
>>>
>>> ./run-max.sh: line 48:  1406 Aborted                 ./${binary} -d
>>> "${outputdir}" --trace-flags="Exec" --trace-file="tracedmp" "${script}"
>>> --output "${benchout}" --bench "${1}" ${cpumodel} --caches --l2cache
>>>
>>> When I only use an L1 cache no error occurs. Also for other L1-latencies
>>> everything works fine when I do attach an L2 cache.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> ------------
>>> Unfortunately I do not get this error for the hello-benchmark, but I do
>>> get it for simple code-fragments like this one:
>>>
>>> #include<iostream>
>>> using namespace std;
>>>
>>> int main(){
>>>          double result=1;
>>>          double x;
>>>          while(cin>>x){
>>>                  result*=x;
>>>          }
>>>          cout<<"The result of the multiplication session is"<<result<<endl;
>>> }
>>>
>>> To run this program you need to provide an inputfile that contains
>>> numbers seperated by spaces:
>>> ./a.out<  inputfile
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Soumyaroop Roy
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida, Tampa
http://www.csee.usf.edu/~sroy

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