Thanks for the reply. Furthermore, if I want to use other interconnection network topologies in M5, is there a quick way to get start?
Thanks, Yu On Jan 11, 2008 3:15 PM, Geoffrey Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The interconnection between cpus that M5 currently uses is a snoopy bus. > Unfortunately, there is no other way to interconnect CPUs. Though as of > M52.0b4, you can construct a hierarchal bus structure, ie: 4 CPUs, each > pair of cpus shares an L2, and coherence is done among the local and remote > pair, similar to how an Intel quad core is setup. (Someone please correct > me if this not correct.) > > > > Geoff > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Zhang Yu > *Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2008 4:08 PM > *To:* m5-users@m5sim.org > *Subject:* [m5-users] Interconnection between multiple processors > > > > Hi, > > I want use the full system mode booting with multiple processors to run > some MPI programs. I was wondering how the processors are connected to each > other. Since in the configuration, the only thing I could do is to set the > number of cpus. Is there a default interconnection network between these > cpus? Or there is no interconnection at all but only a shared memory? I want > to know how the cpus communicate with each other and how I can get control > of the communication. > > Thanks, > Yu > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.0/1216 - Release Date: 1/9/2008 > 10:16 AM > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.0/1216 - Release Date: 1/9/2008 > 10:16 AM > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > m5-users@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >
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