Since you're running full system, it's probably because those processors are in an idle loop. Check the user/kernel time stats. However, why 5/8 would be high is unclear, I don't know why the last 3 wouldnt' also have a high count..
Lisa On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Amir Hossein Hormati < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I setup a new benchmark by copying the related alpha binary to the disk > image and setting up the related scripts. This benchmark is a single > threaded benchmark which does some very trivial math operations and repeat > for 1000 times. I ran m5 with 8 processors to see how this benchmark > performs. After simulation was done, I looked at the stats file generated by > m5. I expected to see one (or maybe two) cpu with high instruction count and > the rest kind of idle, but out of the 8 processors 5 of them had very high > instruction count. Can someone explain to me why this happened for a single > thread program? > > Thanks, > Amir > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >
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