There was a change that Ke Meng sent that fixed some problems with O3 in Alpha deadlocking. That fixed quite possibly fixed this as well.
Ali On Aug 24, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Gabe Black wrote: > I'm pretty sure that perlbmk bug is still there and we just got rid of > the regression. It might have gone away on it's own, but I don't think > anyone actively tried to fix it. > > Gabe > > Ali Saidi wrote: >> From the release notes the following are still outstanding for a 2.0 >> release. I don't really care about the Cygwin problems and I'm not >> sure that anyone else does, so I move to strike those. Additionally, >> we made the repository public so that one is gone. >> >> I think the three things that need to be fixed are: >> O3 CPU -- SMT SE regression hits an assert; bug causing perlbmk to >> fail (Gabe reported this in April 2007 and I don't know if it's still >> a problem http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/221); NACKs/coherence >> messages >> >> Statistics -- The CPU statistics are confusing. I think the idle time >> in the simple CPU can still be wrong after a CPU switch and it's at >> least not clear to me which idles mean quiesced time or idle because >> of other things (blocked in the O3 case, not switched out in the >> simple case); The bus needs statistics; I don't know if the cache >> statistics are reasonable. >> >> Testing -- I've at least done a fair amount of testing over the last >> month or two, so I'm pretty happy with that. I think some validation >> needs to be done on an statistics changes though. >> >> Ali >> >> >> >> 1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails >> 2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages >> 3. Better statistics for the caches. >> 4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin >> 5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin >> 6. Make repository public >> 7. Testing >> 8. Validation >> >> >> On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ali Saidi wrote: >> >> >>> Everyone should hold off pushing patches to the dev tree for the >>> next >>> two weeks so we can create a new stable release. Please only push >>> fixes to known problems and test the repository in the next two >>> weeks. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ali >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> m5-dev mailing list >>> m5-dev@m5sim.org >>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> m5-dev@m5sim.org >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
