Bus: Split the bus into a non-coherent and coherent bus

This patch introduces a class hierarchy of buses, a non-coherent one,
and a coherent one, splitting the existing bus functionality. By doing
so it also enables further specialisation of the two types of buses.

A non-coherent bus connects a number of non-snooping masters and
slaves, and routes the request and response packets based on the
address. The request packets issued by the master connected to a
non-coherent bus could still snoop in caches attached to a coherent
bus, as is the case with the I/O bus and memory bus in most system
configurations. No snoops will, however, reach any master on the
non-coherent bus itself. The non-coherent bus can be used as a
template for modelling PCI, PCIe, and non-coherent AMBA and OCP buses,
and is typically used for the I/O buses.

A coherent bus connects a number of (potentially) snooping masters and
slaves, and routes the request and response packets based on the
address, and also forwards all requests to the snoopers and deals with
the snoop responses. The coherent bus can be used as a template for
modelling QPI, HyperTransport, ACE and coherent OCP buses, and is
typically used for the L1-to-L2 buses and as the main system
interconnect.

The configuration scripts are updated to use a NoncoherentBus for all
peripheral and I/O buses.

A bit of minor tidying up has also been done.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/bus.cc => src/mem/coherent_bus.cc
rename : src/mem/bus.hh => src/mem/coherent_bus.hh
rename : src/mem/bus.cc => src/mem/noncoherent_bus.cc
rename : src/mem/bus.hh => src/mem/noncoherent_bus.hh

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/cpu/BaseCPU.py b/src/cpu/BaseCPU.py
index 60d06b209..9ed2cb789 100644
--- a/src/cpu/BaseCPU.py
+++ b/src/cpu/BaseCPU.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ from m5.defines import buildEnv
 from m5.params import *
 from m5.proxy import *
 
-from Bus import Bus
+from Bus import CoherentBus
 from InstTracer import InstTracer
 from ExeTracer import ExeTracer
 from MemObject import MemObject
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ class BaseCPU(MemObject):
 
     def addTwoLevelCacheHierarchy(self, ic, dc, l2c, iwc = None, dwc = None):
         self.addPrivateSplitL1Caches(ic, dc, iwc, dwc)
-        self.toL2Bus = Bus()
+        self.toL2Bus = CoherentBus()
         self.connectCachedPorts(self.toL2Bus)
         self.l2cache = l2c
         self.toL2Bus.master = self.l2cache.cpu_side