I'm actually using SE mode, so the only process running is this small program.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Prathap Kolakkampadath <kvprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you provide more details about your system configuration? How are > you making sure that no other process or kernel accessing the memory. > > Thanks, > Prathap > > On Sep 8, 2017 7:54 AM, "Jackie Chan" <chanjackie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey guys! > > I'm running a small program on gem5 to test data cache. The cache size is > 32kB (assoc: 8 and block size: 64 bytes). The program loads independent > data values from an array with an offset of 64 bytes (the cache block > size), such that the total size of array is 32kB, and the accesses keep on > happening in a loop. Theoretically the number of data cache misses should > be very low in this case. However I am noticing 72 million data cache > misses for a total of 520 million accesses. I reduced the size of the > array to 30kB rather than 32kB ( using the same size of data cache) and the > number of misses reduced to less than a thousand. I am not sure what I > might be missing here? Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >
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