I'm not necessarily opposed, it just seems somewhat arbitrary to single out gzip when the same logic could probably be applied to other tests. I don't run the long tests directly very much anyway, so the runtime doesn't bother me.
Eventually we should have a more flexible regression system anyway... we have a prototype internally at AMD but need to get some more experience with it ourselves before releasing it. Steve On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>wrote: > It's one of the slower ones (1 - 1.5 CPU hours for each ISA, so x4). I > have nothing against gzip in particular, I just do not see what it adds > compared to e.g. bzip2. Do we believe that this test actually adds any > value? > > The broader question would be: which of the tests actually add coverage > and not just CPU hours? > > Another reason for pruning the regressions is the size of the stats > updates. For some of the bus/memory related patches, each bump is 10MB+ > (only stats.txt). > > Andreas > > > > On 27/05/2013 15:27, "Steve Reinhardt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Is there something that bothers you particularly about 00.gzip? It's > >already in the 'long' set, correct? Aren't there some other equally > >long-running tests? > > > >I don't have any particular attachment to gzip, but I don't want to see it > >unfairly singled out... it seems no less valuable than many of our other > >tests. > > > >Steve > > > > > >On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Andreas Hansson > ><[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Let me ask the same question in a different way: > >> > >> Could those that want to keep 00.gzip voice their opinion :-) > >> > >> I will create a patch to prune it in the meanwhile. > >> > >> Andreas > >> > >> > >> On 22/05/2013 17:03, "Andreas Hansson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >Hi everyone, > >> > > >> >How do people feel about pruning 00.gzip from the regressions? It takes > >> >quite some time to run (1+ hour for each arch), and I struggle to > >>justify > >> >the time/energy spent. Does anyone think it adds value? > >> > > >> >Thanks, > >> > > >> >Andreas > >> > > >> >-- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > >> >confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > >> >recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > >> >contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy > >> >the information in any medium. Thank you. > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >gem5-dev mailing list > >> >[email protected] > >> >http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > >> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > >> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > >> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy > >>the > >> information in any medium. Thank you. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gem5-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >gem5-dev mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > > > > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
