Re: [Gems-users] Processor binding for LogTM

[Jayaram Bobba <bobba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The distributed version of LogTM does not handle thread switching and 
paging.
Hence thread binding is recommended.

Jayaram

Shantanu Gupta wrote:
> For correct execution of a multithreaded benchmarks using logTM protocol, 
> is processor binding (pset_bind) necessary ?
> If yes, then why does the deque benchmark not have it ?
>
> If no, then how is it guaranteed that a thread will be not be shuffled out 
> of a processor while it is running under a transaction ? What is 
> responsible for ensuring this :
>    - logtm coherence protocol
>    - logtm transaction manager
>    - simics interface, etc..
>
>
> -Shantanu
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