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authorAndreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>2012-08-22 11:39:59 -0400
committerAndreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>2012-08-22 11:39:59 -0400
commitc60db56741631b03e3431d03c26c9114c27ba6c6 (patch)
tree646cb63e6a355ca2e61569c7e8ce150b7776f12e /src/arch/x86/x86_traits.hh
parenta6074016e211276e47238d0d708288527ace0aef (diff)
downloadgem5-c60db56741631b03e3431d03c26c9114c27ba6c6.tar.xz
Packet: Remove NACKs from packet and its use in endpoints
This patch removes the NACK frrom the packet as there is no longer any module in the system that issues them (the bridge was the only one and the previous patch removes that). The handling of NACKs was mostly avoided throughout the code base, by using e.g. panic or assert false, but in a few locations the NACKs were actually dealt with (although NACKs never occured in any of the regressions). Most notably, the DMA port will now never receive a NACK and the backoff time is thus never changed. As a consequence, the entire backoff mechanism (similar to a PCI bus) is now removed and the DMA port entirely relies on the bus performing the arbitration and issuing a retry when appropriate. This is more in line with e.g. PCIe. Surprisingly, this patch has no impact on any of the regressions. As mentioned in the patch that removes the NACK from the bridge, a follow-up patch should change the request and response buffer size for at least one regression to also verify that the system behaves as expected when the bridge fills up.
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