[Disksim-users] time scale negative value

[Shahrukh Rohinton Tarapore]

Sorry for my late reply Steve, I've had a procmail bug which has been 
redirecting all my disksim mail to the wrong directory. To answer your 
questions:

I've tested disksim using a negative time scale value and it never seems 
to break. As far as it making sense... I don't think it does. My 
original problem was the traffic in my traces were time stamped so close 
together (on the order of 1000th of a millisecond) that disksim could 
not handle it. Making the time stamp negative has been the only way to 
get disksim to run to completion on these particular fine-grain traces.

I am using disksim in two ways: 1) as a slave to a system level 
simulator 2) as a validator to the storage simulation in 1. This problem 
I'm having only occur when validating via traces.

In the past week I've gone very in depth to manually calculate the 
request latencies disksim provides when the time stamp is negative. 
There seems to be no problem in running disksim this way, but I agree it 
doesn't make sense to do so. I'll just say it works and it is something 
to try if you ever have to run fine-grain time stamped traces in disksim.

-- shahrukh

Steve wrote:
> Hello,Shahrukh,
> First,what I wonder is that even if the negative value makes disksim 
> work well, does it make sense to you?
> Second, I advise you to make smooth the trace file (out of time 
> order)by writing a toolkit. It is not hard.
> Third, I don't know the way you use disksim. Do you use disksim as a 
> slave module or play the trace with disksim itself? If the latter, I 
> have no idea. If the former, I have a thread that the syssim.c has a 
> little bug with respect to calculatiing time.
> I hope it is useful to you.
> All the best.
> 　　　　　　　　Steve
> 　　　　　　　　zgy04 at 126.com
> 　　　　　　　　2006-09-17
> ======= 2006-09-17 09:35:05 Shahrukh Rohinton Tarapore Written: =======
> >Can anyone tell me what happens if I set the time scale parameter to a
> >negative value? I tried running a trace with disk requests spaced very
> >closely together (with respect to time). When I used positive values
> >for the time scale I would get errors that requests in the trace file
> >were out of time order. Only when I set the time scale parameter
> >negative did disksim run through the entire trace without interruption.
> >
> >I want to be sure that using a negative value doesn't some how skew my
> >results. Thanks.
> >
> >-- shahrukh
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