Re: [gem5-users] Restore from checkpoint and disable cores

2016-10-17 Thread Jason Lowe-Power
Hi Ardash, I'm not sure if it ever makes sense to disable a core coming out of a checkpoint. What would happen to all of the architectural state of that core? Would the process that's running on the core just die? I haven't ever tried this, but you may be able to emulate this by using the

[gem5-users] Restore from checkpoint and disable cores

2016-10-16 Thread Adarsh Patil
Hi, I am running gem5 in SE mode and have checkpointed multi-programmed workloads at a specific region of interest. When I restore from the checkpoint i would like to "shut-off"/disable 1 or more cores? Alternatively, run no-ops on these cores or perhaps turn off fetching instructions for this