Hi, paul, Yes, it just set up a second hard drive image with a checkpoint just launches milc alone, the difference from bootup is nondeterministic and definitely mess up the result. So I have to figure out how to kill thread right after it starts to run.
Thanks zhe On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, DRAM Ninjas <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think you're going to be able to do this very easily since by > definition the checkpoint will always have identical state between boot ups, > so I'm not sure how you'd send a message to the machine to tell it you want > to kill the thread. Perhaps if you rigged up some crazy network code like > "query the host machine and see if I need to abort", though getting that to > work with QEMU networking would probably be a fun fun task (and would also > pollute your results, probably). > > Why don't you just setup a second hard drive image with a checkpoint that > just launches milc alone? Are you worried about the differences from the > bootup being nondeterministic and messing up your results? > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Zhe Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question about how to kill a thread after marss load a >> checkpoint. I made a checkpoint for multiprogram application. Such as I >> have two benchmark mcf and milc. I set them on two different cores and run >> them by using marss. After I load the checkpoint , I would like to kill >> benchmark mcf, just left milc running. Then reason I want to do this is I >> would like to compare the performance difference between benchmark milc >> running alone with milc running with other benchmarks. Any idea about how >> to kill a thread after load the checkpoint? >> >> Thanks >> zhe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://www.marss86.org >> Marss86-Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/marss86-devel >> >> >
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