Hi Gabe, are we talking about seconds or minutes (per run)? In the latter case I agree we could reduce the max_number to 3.
If it is just saving us few seconds then it is probably not worth it IMHO Kind Regards Giacomo > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabe Black via gem5-dev <[email protected]> > Sent: 12 October 2021 09:18 > To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]> > Cc: Gabe Black <[email protected]> > Subject: [gem5-dev] reduce the number of checkpoints in the ARM > checkpoint test? > > I notice that the long pole in running the quick regressions seems to be the > tests/gem5/configs/realview64-simple-atomic-checkpoint.py test which > does some sort of ARM linux boot (I assume) and checkpoints 5 times as it > comes up. Would it make sense to reduce that down to 3 or even 2? I think > that would get largely the same test coverage but hopefully take > substantially less time to run. > > Alternatively we could increase the interval and decrease the max number of > checkpoints to get more separate (and more different?) state for > checkpoints. > > Longer term, we should look at why taking (and restoring?) checkpoints is so > slow and try to fix that, but nearer term, when I have to run lots of these > in a > row, it would be really nice to trim them down by a good number of minutes > a time. > > Gabe 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] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
