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
>>
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