Thanks Paul for the quick response! I am new to using SPEC. I just tried to put some ptlcalls in the bzip2 source, but the compilation framework of SPEC (using runspec) seems to be checking for checksums. Any easy way to work around this ?
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Paul Rosenfeld <[email protected]>wrote: > If you can build your workload from source, the easiest approach to doing > this would be to add some region of interest hooks in the form of ptlcalls > to the source code. This way, you can create the checkpoint right at the > point of interest instead of running simulation execution from a checkpoint > of the shell. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Ankita (Garg) Goel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way I could fast-forward the execution of a benchmark for a >> few million of instructions before switching into the simulation mode ? For >> instance, I create the checkpoint like below: >> >> # ./create_checkpoint bb; ./bzip2 <param>; ./stop_sim; >> >> Now, once I start marss again, from the above checkpoint 'bb', I want to >> fast-forward about 1million user instructions and then run simulation for >> the next few million instructions. Can I do this ? I did look around in the >> archives, but did not find the answer there. Any suggestions/thoughts on >> this will greatly help me! >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Ankita >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://www.marss86.org >> Marss86-Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/marss86-devel >> >> > -- Regards, Ankita Graduate Student Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Austin
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