My point is that you -don't- have it without the reference outputs. The
reference outputs are how you make it exist in this case.

Gabe

On 02/05/11 10:00, Steve Reinhardt wrote:
> So what's the point in having it without reference outputs?  Sure you
> could run it, but as a regression it wouldn't be very valuable since
> you wouldn't know if anything changed or not.  I guess you could run
> it to see if it completed, but I'm not sure how much value is in that
> (or whether anyone would ever do it).
>
> I think some of the existing long regressions are already too long,
> and I don't really want to see us add regressions that are any longer.
>  The goal of regressions is to make sure you didn't break anything, so
> you want to maximize the variety of things you test.  It's not clear
> that (once you get above some threshold) running a test for longer is
> going to exercise new code interactions that might actually expose
> bugs... as Ali said, it's not clear that running 20 hours of bzip2 is
> a more stressful test than 10 or 5 or even 2 hours of running bzip2
> (unless you're looking for a slow memory leak, but there are better
> ways of catching that).
>
> Steve
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     That's actually what we're talking about. All the script bits are
>     already there, I'd just be adding reference outputs.
>
>     Gabe
>
>
>     On 02/04/11 23:49, nathan binkert wrote:
>>     Can't he commit the regression without any reference stats?  I
>>     thought it wouldn't run if there were no refs.  Perhaps the
>>     script is so simple as to be not worth it?
>>
>>       Nate
>>
>>     On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         My opinion is that I've never had bzip find a bug that some
>>         other spec test hasn't. I think 20 hours is way too long for
>>         a regression test. We should either shrink the input size or
>>         just not have it. 
>>
>>          
>>
>>         Ali
>>
>>          
>>
>>         On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:35:29 -0800, Gabe Black wrote:
>>
>>             So how do people feel about this? bzip2 in x86 on O3
>>             takes more than 20 hours to run. Should that be part of
>>             the regressions or not? I have it ready to go if that's
>>             acceptable, but to me it seems too long.
>>
>>             Gabe
>>
>>             On 02/01/11 17:30, Gabe Black wrote:
>>
>>                 Normally I wouldn't send stats updates out for
>>                 review. I'm adding new regressions here, though, and
>>                 I think people may be interested in the run time,
>>                 especially for bzip2. I think it was about 20+ hours
>>                 on opt on a big machine from HP. This may be trimmed
>>                 down if/when performance bottlenecks get fixed since
>>                 O3 will have to do less work, but cutting it in half
>>                 is still a long, long time for a regression. I notice
>>                 that the number of ticks for the benchmarks that are
>>                 in common with Alpha is about 4 times higher,
>>                 suggesting a performance bug of some sort (I doubt
>>                 x86 gcc is 4X worse).
>>
>>                 Gabe
>>
>>                 On 02/01/11 17:23, Gabe Black wrote:
>>
>>                     This is an automatically generated e-mail. To
>>                     reply, visit: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/463/
>>
>>
>>                     Review request for Default, Ali Saidi, Gabe
>>                     Black, Steve Reinhardt, and Nathan Binkert.
>>                     By Gabe Black.
>>
>>
>>                       Description
>>
>>                     X86: Add o3 regressions in SE mode.
>>
>>
>>                       Diffs
>>
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/mcf.out
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/60.bzip2/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/60.bzip2/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/60.bzip2/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/60.bzip2/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.out
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.pin
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.pl1
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.pl2
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.sav
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.sv2
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/smred.twf
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simerr
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>                         * 
>> tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
>>                           (PRE-CREATION)
>>
>>                     View Diff <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/463/diff/>
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