Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu as a System Simulator

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Andrea Pellegrini <address@hidden> wrote:
> for my research in Computer Architecture I need to build a full
> multiprocessor system simulator where I can modify the interconnect between
> the CPUs and evaluate its performance.
> I saw that many cycle accurate simulators are based on Qemu and I was
> wondering if anyone has experience and thinks that is possible to modify
> Qemu to support multiple interconnect (such as bus, mesh, NoC).

qemu is not the right simulator to evaluate most kind of performance
metrics (the only thing you can do is instruction set usage, instruction
counts, memory traces, and the likes).  I wonder where you saw
cycle accurate simulators using qemu :-)


Laurent