On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Eduardo Olmedo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Meng-Ju thanks for your answer, is that all?, it's very easy, when I saw > the example I thought that if I put 8, 16 or whatever in the > options.num_cpus what I'm doing is adding more cpus to the system not > cores., so just changing that variable do I change the cores?.
"cores" is marketing terminology for CPUs that happen to be on the same chip. The only architectural difference (relevant to simulation) from CPUs on separate dies is relative speed of communication (e.g. a shared L2 bus can run at an on-chip speed). -- Philip Machanick (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland) 39 Cunningham Street, Taringa, Qld 4068, Australia http://opinion-nation.blogspot.com/ +61-7-3871-0963 office +61 7 3346 2641 skype philipmach _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
