Thanks Nilay! I will try out gem5.fast. Also, is it expected to not find the ACPI System Description tables? I do see some code in x86 that does add the acpi tables ?
Regards, Ankita On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: > I think two hours is resonable amount of time with gem5.opt. You can use > gem5.fast to go faster. Since gem5 is currently a single threaded process, > so the number of cores on the machine on which you running gem5, does not > matter as such. > > -- > Nilay > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Ankita (Garg) Goel wrote: > > Sorry for the bump up, but could someone please help me regarding the >> large >> boot-up time in X86_FS mode ? The place where it seems to get stuck for a >> long time is: >> >> ACPI: Core revision 20070126 >> ACPI Exception (tbxface-0618): AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES, While loading namespace >> from ACPI tables [20070126] >> ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables >> .. followed by another long wait time after this line: Using local APIC >> timer interrupts. >> >> Any thoughts ? >> >> Regards, >> Ankita >> >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Ankita (Garg) Goel <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> Anyone has any thoughts on the time taken to boot X86_FS with detailed >>> mode ? It is currently taking me almost 2 hours. Whereas, alpha_fs is >>> much >>> faster.. about 10 minutes. Is this the expected behavior ? Also, as >>> mentioned in my previous email, I am running the simulation on a server >>> that has over 32GB RAM and about 24 cores. >>> >>> Any ideas on how I could improve the boot time ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ankita >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Ankita (Garg) Goel < >>> [email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> I did try to increase the size of RAM as well. Also, I am running the >>>> simulation on a server machine that has around 24 cores and a large >>>> amount >>>> of RAM. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Ankita (Garg) Goel < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to boot the pre-built 2.6.22.9 linux binary available from >>>>> the download page with X86_FS in detailed mode using the following >>>>> commandline: >>>>> >>>>> # build/X86_FS/gem5.opt config/example/fs.py -d --caches --l2cache >>>>> >>>>> It takes about 2hrs for the system to boot-up ? Is this expected with >>>>> x86_fs ? However, the non-detailed boot is pretty fast. With ALPHA_FS, >>>>> even >>>>> the detailed mode boot is quite fast. Anything I need to change in my >>>>> configuration ? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your help! >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Ankita >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Ankita >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Ankita >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Ankita >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/gem5-users<http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users> > -- Regards, Ankita
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