mem-cache: Split array indexing and replacement policies.

Replacement policies (LRU, Random) are currently considered as array
indexing methods, but have completely different functionalities:

- Array indexers determine the possible locations for block allocation.
  This information is used to generate replacement candidates when
  conflicts happen.
- Replacement policies determine which of the replacement candidates
  should be evicted to make room for new allocations.

For this reason, they were split into different classes. Advantages:

- Easier and more straightforward to implement other replacement
  policies (RRIP, LFU, ARC, ...)
- Allow easier future implementation of cache organization schemes

As now we can't assure the use of sets, the previous way to create a
true LRU is not viable. Now a timestamp_bits parameter controls how
many bits are dedicated for the timestamp, and a true LRU can be
achieved through an infinite number of bits (although a few bits suffice
in practice).

Change-Id: I23750db121f1474d17831137e6ff618beb2b3eda
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8501
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/cache/base.cc b/src/mem/cache/base.cc
index 6f2532371..2c7d9fb68 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/base.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/base.cc
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@
 #include "mem/cache/cache.hh"
 #include "mem/cache/mshr.hh"
 #include "mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh"
-#include "mem/cache/tags/lru.hh"
-#include "mem/cache/tags/random_repl.hh"
 #include "sim/full_system.hh"
 
 using namespace std;