Re: [m5-dev] memtest.cc

2009-08-31 Thread Steve Reinhardt
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Polina Dudnik wrote: > I see. It seems like it would be more appropriate to have tester test larger > requests because we are getting a false sense of correctness by running the > test. It tests the protocol logic well but not the data correctness. It's a "false sh

Re: [m5-dev] memtest.cc

2009-08-31 Thread Polina Dudnik
I see. It seems like it would be more appropriate to have tester test larger requests because we are getting a false sense of correctness by running the test. It tests the protocol logic well but not the data correctness. Also, is there a maximum on the size of the m5 request? I would like to test

Re: [m5-dev] memtest.cc

2009-08-31 Thread Steve Reinhardt
Good question. Looks like historical cruft to me. I think there used to be a mode that tested variable-size accesses but that mode got ripped out. Note that access_size is log2 of the access size, so setting it to 0 means byte accesses. Steve On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Polina Dudnik wrot

[m5-dev] memtest.cc

2009-08-31 Thread Polina Dudnik
Hi, I have a question: why is it that the access_size is first calculated as random() % 4 and then reset to zero before issuing the request in MemTest::tick? Thank you. Polina ___ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m