ruby: message buffers: significant changes

This patch is the final patch in a series of patches.  The aim of the series
is to make ruby more configurable than it was.  More specifically, the
connections between controllers are not at all possible (unless one is ready
to make significant changes to the coherence protocol).  Moreover the buffers
themselves are magically connected to the network inside the slicc code.
These connections are not part of the configuration file.

This patch makes changes so that these connections will now be made in the
python configuration files associated with the protocols.  This requires
each state machine to expose the message buffers it uses for input and output.
So, the patch makes these buffers configurable members of the machines.

The patch drops the slicc code that usd to connect these buffers to the
network.  Now these buffers are exposed to the python configuration system
as Master and Slave ports.  In the configuration files, any master port
can be connected any slave port.  The file pyobject.cc has been modified to
take care of allocating the actual message buffer.  This is inline with how
other port connections work.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/AbstractController.hh b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/AbstractController.hh
index 36b4665c3..42d158653 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/AbstractController.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/AbstractController.hh
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ class AbstractController : public ClockedObject, public Consumer
     virtual void collateStats()
     {fatal("collateStats() should be overridden!");}
 
+    //! Set the message buffer with given name.
+    virtual void setNetQueue(const std::string& name, MessageBuffer *b) = 0;
+
   public:
     MachineID getMachineID() const { return m_machineID; }
 
@@ -103,25 +106,12 @@ class AbstractController : public ClockedObject, public Consumer
     Stats::Histogram& getDelayVCHist(uint32_t index)
     { return *(m_delayVCHistogram[index]); }
 
-    MessageBuffer *getPeerQueue(uint32_t pid)
-    {
-        std::map<uint32_t, MessageBuffer *>::iterator it =
-                                        peerQueueMap.find(pid);
-        assert(it != peerQueueMap.end());
-        return (*it).second;
-    }
-
   protected:
     //! Profiles original cache requests including PUTs
     void profileRequest(const std::string &request);
     //! Profiles the delay associated with messages.
     void profileMsgDelay(uint32_t virtualNetwork, Cycles delay);
 
-    //! Function for connecting peer controllers
-    void connectWithPeer(AbstractController *);
-    virtual void getQueuesFromPeer(AbstractController *)
-    { fatal("getQueuesFromPeer() should be called only if implemented!"); }
-
     void stallBuffer(MessageBuffer* buf, Address addr);
     void wakeUpBuffers(Address addr);
     void wakeUpAllBuffers(Address addr);
@@ -147,9 +137,6 @@ class AbstractController : public ClockedObject, public Consumer
     unsigned int m_buffer_size;
     Cycles m_recycle_latency;
 
-    //! Map from physical network number to the Message Buffer.
-    std::map<uint32_t, MessageBuffer*> peerQueueMap;
-
     //! Counter for the number of cycles when the transitions carried out
     //! were equal to the maximum allowed
     Stats::Scalar m_fully_busy_cycles;