[gem5-users] Re: How event affect curTick?

2020-06-15 Thread Gabe Black via gem5-users
Conceptually yes. There is usually an event or something an event causes which tells gem5 to exit, like the last thread of a process exiting, or the m5 utility running inside a full system simulation telling the simulator it wants to exit. That will make gem5 return to the config script where it wi

[gem5-users] Re: How event affect curTick?

2020-06-15 Thread Taiyu Zhou via gem5-users
Thank you so much,Gabe. So the total time gem5 runs is depending on the final event? ___ gem5-users mailing list -- gem5-users@gem5.org To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-users-le...@gem5.org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_nam

[gem5-users] Re: How event affect curTick?

2020-06-15 Thread Gabe Black via gem5-users
Events are scheduled for a specific time, and it's the event queues job to go through them in chronological order and call them to do whatever they're supposed to do. Events happen instantly, in the sense that time does not pass or change while they're running. They also can't normally affect what