On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, wael Amr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Really Great Thanks for your reply and support.
> Actually i have a confusion .
> Is the linux kernel is represented by certain class in the Marss
> simulator ?
> or
> Do you mean the real linux kernel of the used linux platform (e.g. ubantu
> ,fedora,...) as i am using MAC OS?
>
> Yes its a real linux kernel.  Because Marss boots a Virtual Machine that
contains a full linux distribution including a kernel.
If you are not much familiar with Qemu and VM, then checkout how Qemu
works.  That will give an idea what Marss simulates.

- Avadh


> Thank you in advance for your time.
> Thanks
> Best Regards
> Wael Amr
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:01 PM, avadh patel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:28 AM, wael Amr <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am a master student and working on a research for scheduling tasks
>>> among multicore platforms to decrease miss rate among second level shared
>>> cache.
>>> So i am investigating in Marss to check if i can use Marss to implement
>>> the scheduling algorithm for arranging the tasks or not.
>>>
>>> Marss can be suitable simulator environment for your project.  You can
>> easily setup custom linux kernel in Marss.
>> Checkout this wiki page on using Marss with modified linux kernel:
>> http://marss86.org/~marss86/index.php/Linux_Kernel_Development
>>
>> There is one catch that currently Marss doesn't implement MSR counters.
>>  So if you are looking to use those in your project you might have to
>> implement them or use ptlcall interface to communicate between Marss and
>> kernel.
>>
>> - Avadh
>>
>> So please would anyone help me or give me any opinion/hint in this point ?
>>>
>>> Any help will be really highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for time and cooperation.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Wael Amr
>>>
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