Fwd: [Disksim-users] Invoking several copies of disksim simultaneously

[Xiaoyu Yao]

Can you open an account for public CVS access to the latest source so 
that more developers interested in disksim can learn and contribute?

Xiaoyu

John Bucy wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Bucy <bucy at gloop.org>
> Date: Aug 29, 2006 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Disksim-users] Invoking several copies of disksim 
> simultaneously
> To: haya shem tov <hayashemtov at yahoo.com>
> Cc: disksim-users at ece.cmu.edu
>
>
> On 8/29/06, haya shem tov <hayashemtov at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Disksim users,I intend to use several copies of disksim 
>> simultaneously,
>> using disksim_interface.c. I think I can init several disksim copies,
>> even using the same parameter file (?).
>> Then I can activate each disksim copy separately,
>> while they are all synchronized with the system time.
>> The functions syssim_schedule_callback, syssim_deschedule_callback,
>> syssim_report_completion will be invoked only by the disksim copy
>> currently performs an internal event.
>> Am I correct? Is the something I should note?
>
> I would be shocked if this actually worked correctly;  there is a huge
> amount of global state inside disksim; multiple instances will corrupt
> each other.  If you really need to do this, you can probably fork off
> processes and do the synchronization with some kind of ipc.
>
>
>> I would also like to join a question previously ask in the forum -
>> Does anybody have disk specification files newer then those published?
>> This could really be a great help, since I feel my research may be much
>> stronger using up-to-date disk specification.
>
> I've been working on this in my (limited) spare time and I wish it was
> done 9 months ago but there are only so many hours in the day :(
>
>
>
> john
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