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Currently the wakeup function for the PerfectSwitch contains three loops - loop on number of virtual networks loop on number of incoming links loop till all messages for this (link, network) have been routed With an 8 processor mesh network and Hammer protocol, about 11-12% of the was observed to have been spent in this function, which is the highest amongst all the functions. It was found that the innermost loop is executed about 45 times per invocation of the wakeup function, when each invocation of the wakeup function processes just about one message. The patch tries to do away with the redundant executions of the innermost loop. Counters have been added for each virtual network that record the number of messages that need to be routed for that virtual network. The inner loops are only executed when the number of messages for that particular virtual network > 0. This does away with almost 80% of the executions of the innermost loop. The function now consumes about 5-6% of the total execution time.
This is release 2.0_beta6 of the M5 simulator. For detailed information about building the simulator and getting started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org. Specific pages of interest are: http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5 http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5 Short version: 1. If you don't have SCons version 0.96.91 or newer, get it from http://wwww.scons.org. 2. If you don't have SWIG version 1.3.28 or newer, get it from http://wwww.swig.org. 3. In this directory, type 'scons build/ALPHA_SE/tests/debug/quick'. This will build the debug version of the m5 binary (m5.debug) for the Alpha syscall emulation target, and run the quick regression tests on it. If you have questions, please send mail to m5-users@m5sim.org WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) ------------------------- The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - m5: - src: source code of the m5 simulator - tests: regression tests - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console, PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files are collected in a separate archive, m5_system.tar.bz2. This file can he downloaded separately. M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-users@m5sim.org