What are you implementing that needs to run over and over so often? Gabe
Veydan Wu wrote: > Hi, Steve. Thank you for your reply. As there is no direct way to > implement a Verilog 'always' loop in M5, could I use the simulate() > function and insert an event in every cycle? This event process will > invoke the process function in my I/O device thus my I/O device can > run every cycle in parallel with the CPUs. Is that possible? I need to > define a new event and insert to the mainEventQueue every cycle. Thank > you! > > Weidan > > 在 2010年3月11日 上午9:49，Steve Reinhardt <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>写道： > > There's no facility in m5 for anything other than event-driven > modeling... to do something like a Verilog 'always' loop, you > effectively need to implement a thread package that would let you > suspend the loop, go process events for other objects, then return to > the loop. I agree there are times it would be convenient, but it's > also relatively expensive in terms of performance. You basically have > to code the object as a state machine, and use events to drive it > forward. > > Steve > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
