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Simulation of a last level cache (LLC) for ECE 585 final project
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Create a few basic test trace files #22

Closed nkanderson closed 3 days ago

nkanderson commented 3 weeks ago

When we understand the trace events well enough, we should come up with a handful of event sequences (maybe 2-4 to start with) to test with. They should probably focus on the simplest cases to begin with.

d-engler commented 2 weeks ago

Not to give ourselves more work... but a script to generate random test files would be pretty easy.

nkanderson commented 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I think some randomly generated patterns would be great. I also think we should try to identify any specific patterns that represent some particular functionality we need to test. I'm not sure I understand the events well enough yet to come up with an example relevant to our context, but more generally, thinking about whether there are sequences of states we go through that lead to a bad or hung state if they're not handled properly. If we have some named test cases to run through, we can probably identify the issue more quickly if they fail.

d-engler commented 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they might actually need to be random with some constraints to be realistic/useful. Again, something I think will come into focus in the coming days.

nkanderson commented 3 days ago

Superseded by #42