Simics ensures that CPUs simulated in parallel within a particular cell never has virtual time differences that exceed this setting. The setting is only applicable if Simics is running in the subsystem or the multicore threading mode.
Setting a too large interval may introduce too much latency in the simulation. On the other hand, setting a too small value may increase the synchronization overhead and limit the parallelism, leading to degraded simulation performance.
The special value 0 means that the time-quantum value should be used as the max-time-span parameter.
NOTE: The parameter resembles the time-quantum parameter, which is used by Simics when CPUs are simulated in sequences from a single thread.
NOTE: CPUs belonging to different cells will also be kept synchronized, but in this case the maximal virtual time difference is controlled by the set-min-latency command.