[m5-dev] Fixing MESI CMP directory protocol

2011-01-04 Thread Nilay Vaish
What threshold do you use? On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Arkaprava Basu wrote: Hi Nilay, On deadlock issue with MESI_CMP_directory : Yes, this can happen as ruby_tester or Sequencer only reports *possible* deadlocks. With higher number of processors there is more contention (and thus latency)

Re: [m5-dev] Fixing MESI CMP directory protocol

2011-01-04 Thread Arkaprava Basu
These are the following step I use: 1. First run with whatever default values of threshold are. 2. If deadlocked, take trace and try to find out is there evident reason for deadlock or not. 3. If no, double the default threshold value and run again. 4. If the same test passes with larger