Hi all,

I'm currently new to the gem5 standard library, and I've used old scripts
for a while which works fine for me. I'd like to know if it is possible to
run a multithreaded program in SE mode with the gem5 standard library. It
seems like the SE workload is not compatible with multithreaded binaries.
def set_se_binary_workload(
self,
binary: BinaryResource,
exit_on_work_items: bool = True,
stdin_file: Optional[FileResource] = None,
stdout_file: Optional[Path] = None,
stderr_file: Optional[Path] = None,
env_list: Optional[List[str]] = None,
arguments: List[str] = [],
checkpoint: Optional[Union[Path, CheckpointResource]] = None,
) -> None:
"""Set up the system to run a specific binary.

    **Limitations**
    * Only supports single threaded applications.

Thanks,
Ziyao

Hey Ziyao,

Thank you for pointing this out. This comment is wrong. This was a restriction at some time, and even then only in the standard library. Right now you can run multi-threaded applications in se-mode via the `set_se_binary_workload` function. It’s supported.

I’ve submitted a pull-request here to remove this comment: https://github.com/gem5/gem5/pull/402.

Kind regards,

Bobby