gem5-resources-launch

This repo contains a set of scripts to set up and launch/test all full system resources. The scripts are capable of filtering out runs of specific characteristics (e.g. only run with kvm, etc.).

Cloning the repo

This repo contains a submodule, so the repo should be cloned recursively.

git clone https://github.com/darchr/gem5-resources-launch --recursive

Set up the repo

./setup.sh

Note: In the setup.sh script, SPEC2006_ISO_PATH and SPEC2017_ISO_PATH variables specify the paths to SPEC 2006 ISO file and SPEC 2017 ISO file respectively. Those ISO files are required build the SPEC disk images for gem5. Those variables should be before running setup.sh.

Set up the run script

In the launch_test.py file, there are global variables should be set,

Variable name	Meaning
`OUTPUT_FOLDER`	path to the folder containing the outputs of the gem5 runs
`ERR_FOLDER`	path to the folder containing the error caused by gem5art if a full system run runs into such an error
`GEM5_FOLDER`	path to the gem5 folder
`GEM5_RESOURCES_FOLDER`	path to the gem5-resources folder
`DISK_IMAGES_FOLDER`	path to the folder containing disk images
`LINUX_KERNELS_FOLDER`	path to the folder containing Linux kernels
`RUN_NAME_SUFFIX`	unique name for the experiment, this makes querying for the result of those runs easier

Setting up the gem5art in a virtual Python environment

virtualenv -p python3 gem5art-env
source gem5art-env/bin/activate
pip install gem5art-artifact gem5art-run gem5art-tasks

Running the experiments

python3 ./launch_test.py

Exiting the virtual Python environment

deactivate