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authorNilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>2011-02-14 16:14:54 -0600
committerNilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>2011-02-14 16:14:54 -0600
commit343e94a257baa94575adf0d0def18ffe8da0c4f8 (patch)
tree8c6561d9307cd0b44b47b4afb61e62613ac9ec68 /src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Message.hh
parent5ec579445661ac66fe1add7251ab8d75d766b031 (diff)
downloadgem5-343e94a257baa94575adf0d0def18ffe8da0c4f8.tar.xz
Ruby: Improve Change PerfectSwitch's wakeup function
Currently the wakeup function for the PerfectSwitch contains three loops - loop on number of virtual networks loop on number of incoming links loop till all messages for this (link, network) have been routed With an 8 processor mesh network and Hammer protocol, about 11-12% of the was observed to have been spent in this function, which is the highest amongst all the functions. It was found that the innermost loop is executed about 45 times per invocation of the wakeup function, when each invocation of the wakeup function processes just about one message. The patch tries to do away with the redundant executions of the innermost loop. Counters have been added for each virtual network that record the number of messages that need to be routed for that virtual network. The inner loops are only executed when the number of messages for that particular virtual network > 0. This does away with almost 80% of the executions of the innermost loop. The function now consumes about 5-6% of the total execution time.
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diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Message.hh b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Message.hh
index ff94fdd40..7fcfabe9c 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Message.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Message.hh
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ class Message : public RefCounted
virtual Message* clone() const = 0;
virtual void print(std::ostream& out) const = 0;
+ virtual void setIncomingLink(int) {}
+ virtual void setVnet(int) {}
void setDelayedCycles(const int& cycles) { m_DelayedCycles = cycles; }
const int& getDelayedCycles() const {return m_DelayedCycles;}