Monthly gem5 Developers' Meeting - November 9th 5pm (UTC)

[ivanaamit]

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If you would like to add anything to the agenda please create a comment below or reach out to Jason (@powerjg; jason@lowepower.com).

Date and time: November 9th, 9am Pacific standard time (note: this is the week after the time change in the US)

Agenda:

• gem5 status over the past month
  • Update on CI testing infrastructure
• Ongoing work (probably no need for discussion)
  • Classic prefetchers in Ruby Support for classic prefetchers in Ruby #502
  • Improvements to workloads/resources stdlib, resources: Update JSON data in workload #532 util: Added script to copy resources from mongodb #510
  • Kconfig scons: Change to Kconfig build system #69
• Specific discussions
  • x86 performance issues basic bitwise operations (and/xor in particular) be dependent on CCRegClass (condition code) registers in x86 (alongside src1, src2, etc). #398 @bgodala
  • Memory leak in Ruby gpu-compute: Fix for failing assertion in GPUCoalescer #518 mem-ruby, stdlib: Far atomics fix #514 m_atomicLog not getting cleared #508 @giactra @mysoreanoop @mattsinc
  • Failing weekly and compiler tests @BobbyRBruce
  • Status of branch predictor updates @andysan @dhschall @bgodala
• Plans for gem5 v23.1
• Other items from the floor

If you're tagged on the agenda, your input would be appreciated during the meeting. Apologies if you get emails each time the agenda is updated.

[BobbyRBruce]

Here are copies of the slides shown during this meeting:

• 2023-11-08-monthly-meeting.pdf
• 2023-11-08-monthly-meeting.pptx

[BobbyRBruce]

A recording of this meeting has been uploaded to the gem5 YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/ZzCJdtr1mv0?si=xijIMYQ2n2tUqwqf.