gem5 运行测试程序时如何设置cache的大小

L1, L2, L3 cache sizes notbeing used?

Payne, Benjamin <bpayne <at> lps.umd.edu>
2012-11-01 19:36:18 GMT

Hello,I am running gem5 in syscall emulation mode and specifying the cache sizes. This appears to work as desired. bpayne <at> bpayne-VirtualBox64:~/gem5$ build/X86/gem5.opt configs/example/se.py --clock=2.8GHz--l1d_size=32K --l1i_size=32K --l2_size=256K --l3_size=8192K -c tests/test-progs/hello/bin/x86/linux/hellogem5 Simulator System.

 

这句话的大体意思是，gem5在运行测试程序时，虽然通过参数设置了L1，L2，L3的大小，但是L1，L2，L3没有被用到

 

Re: L1, L2, L3 cache sizes not being used?

Andreas Hansson <Andreas.Hansson <at> arm.com>
2012-11-01 19:43:38 GMT

You seem to be running without caches.

Try --caches and --l2cache

回复的解决方法是，L1cache 前加上 “--caches”，在l2cache前加上 “--l2cache“

按照此种方法，我在我的机器上测试,命令如下：

 build/X86/gem5.opt configs/example/se.py --caches --l1d_size=32kB --l1i_size=32kB --l2cache --l2_size=256kB --l3_size=8192kB  -c tests/test-progs/hello/bin/x86/linux/hello 

查看 ./m5out/stats.txt,运行结果如下：

---------- Begin Simulation Statistics ----------
sim_seconds                                  0.000006                       # Number of seconds simulated
sim_ticks                                     5950500                       # Number of ticks simulated
final_tick                                    5950500                       # Number of ticks from beginning of simulation (restored from checkpoints and never reset)
sim_freq                                 1000000000000                       # Frequency of simulated ticks
host_inst_rate                                 493559                       # Simulator instruction rate (inst/s)
host_op_rate                                   889540                       # Simulator op (including micro ops) rate (op/s)
host_tick_rate                              511707881                       # Simulator tick rate (ticks/s)
host_mem_usage                                 621232                       # Number of bytes of host memory used
host_seconds                                     0.01                       # Real time elapsed on the host
sim_insts                                        5721                       # Number of instructions simulated
sim_ops                                         10328                       # Number of ops (including micro ops) simulated
system.physmem.bytes_read::cpu.inst             14656                       # Number of bytes read from this memory
system.physmem.bytes_read::cpu.data              8640                       # Number of bytes read from this memory
system.physmem.bytes_read::total                23296                       # Number of bytes read from this memory
system.physmem.bytes_inst_read::cpu.inst        14656                       # Number of instructions bytes read from this memory
system.physmem.bytes_inst_read::total           14656                       # Number of instructions bytes read from this memory
system.physmem.num_reads::cpu.inst                229                       # Number of read requests responded to by this memory
system.physmem.num_reads::cpu.data                135                       # Number of read requests responded to by this memory
system.physmem.num_reads::total                   364                       # Number of read requests responded to by this memory
system.physmem.bw_read::cpu.inst           2462986304                       # Total read bandwidth from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_read::cpu.data           1451978825                       # Total read bandwidth from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_read::total              3914965129                       # Total read bandwidth from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_inst_read::cpu.inst      2462986304                       # Instruction read bandwidth from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_inst_read::total         2462986304                       # Instruction read bandwidth from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_total::cpu.inst          2462986304                       # Total bandwidth to/from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_total::cpu.data          1451978825                       # Total bandwidth to/from this memory (bytes/s)
system.physmem.bw_total::total             3914965129                       # Total bandwidth to/from this memory (bytes/s)
system.l2.replacements                              0                       # number of replacements
system.l2.tagsinuse                        144.093545                       # Cycle average of tags in use
system.l2.total_refs                                1                       # Total