I see... maybe we can add a flag to suppress that output, and then use that
flag in the switcheroo test?

Steve


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not really the switcher tests, is that simulation.py prints every
> time the CPU changes occurs. I'm not sure how to fix one without getting
> rid of that.
>
> Ali
>
> On Sep 28, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I noticed that *by far* the bulk of the changes (in terms of line count)
> > were in the simout files for the switcheroo tests, which print the cycle
> > number on every switch, and thus are sensitive to small changes in
> timing.
> > These files are very large in general... in fact, I had to temporarily
> > disable the 400K 'large file limit' on the server to be able to push
> these
> > changes.  So it would be really nice if someone would tweak the
> switcheroo
> > tests to not be so verbose by default, then update the reference outputs
> > with the (much smaller) resulting simout files.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> changeset afd9ea6101d9 in /z/repo/gem5
> >> details: http://repo.gem5.org/gem5?cmd=changeset;node=afd9ea6101d9
> >> description:
> >>        tests: update reference outputs
> >>
> >>        Apparently only stats.txt was updated the last time, so
> >>        this changeset updates other reference output files
> >>        (config.ini, simout, simerr, ruby.stats) so that
> >>        test output diffs should not be cluttered with irrelevant
> >>        changes.  There are a few stats.txt updates too, but
> >>        they are in the minority.
> >>
> >> diffstat:
> >>
> >>
> tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/alpha/linux/tsunami-switcheroo-full/simout
> >>                                 |  10752 ++--
> >>
> tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-full/simout
> >>                                  |   8198 +-
> >> tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-o3/simout
> >>                                  |   5212 +-
> >>
> tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-timing/simout
> >>                                |  21275 ++++-----
> >> tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-switcheroo-full/simout
> >>                                  |  17144 ++++++++-
> >>
> tests/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-atomic/simout
> >>                               |  18629 ++++----
> >>
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