Single core checkpoints does not work with multicore configuration.
You will need to re-create a checkpoint with 2 core configuration for 2-core
simulation because if Checkpoint was running single core OS then there is no
way for QEMU/Marss to run 2 core from that checkpoint because that
Checkpoint has information about only 1 CPU.

To setup multicore simulations, you will need to setup multicore benchmarks
and their checkpoints. I know this is a tedious process but its the only way
to simulate multicore systems.

If you want to run multiple processes of same SPEC benchmark on each core
make sure you use 'taskset' to run each process on different CPU otherwise
OS will not always load-balance the system and your results won't be
accurate.

- Avadh

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Zhe Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have problem about running marss by  using multi-core configuration.
>
> I can run Marss quite well when using single core configuration.  When I
> run marss on 2-core configuration, I first compile it use scons -Q c=2;
> then  start the QEMU like
>
> qemu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048m -hda [path to disk image]
>
> Then I load the 429.mcf  checkpoint  which I already made on disk image by
> using
>
> loadvm 429.mcf
>
> Then there is an error :
> insns/sec: rip 00000000000fc10b 00000000000118d0qemu-system-x86_64:
> ptlsim/build/core/ooopipe.cpp:2124: int
> OutOfOrderModel::ReorderBufferEntry::commit(): Assertion `ctx.get_cs_eip()
> == uop.rip' failed.
>
> This load check point command can load checkpoint successfully when using
> single core configuration but failed on 2-core configuration.
> I am wondering how to run marss by using multi-core configuration ?  For
> example, I would like to run two benchmarks on two different cores, how
> should
> I load the checkpoint for each benchmark  and run them on two different
> cores?   Thank you for your help.
>
>
> Best
> zhe
>
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