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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Jason Lowe-Power
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+ * met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer;
+ * redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution;
+ * neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its
+ * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
+ * this software without specific prior written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+ * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+ * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+ * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+ * OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+ * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+ * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+ * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+ * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+ * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+ * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This file contains the messages and other types for a simple MSI protocol.
+ *
+ * The protocol in this file is based off of the MSI protocol found in
+ * A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence
+ * Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood
+ * Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture 2011 6:3, 141-149
+ *
+ * See Learning gem5 Part 3: Ruby for more details.
+ *
+ * Authors: Jason Lowe-Power
+ */
+
+enumeration(CoherenceRequestType, desc="Types of request messages") {
+ GetS, desc="Request from cache for a block with read permission";
+ GetM, desc="Request from cache for a block with write permission";
+ PutS, desc="Sent to directory when evicting a block in S (clean WB)";
+ PutM, desc="Sent to directory when evicting a block in M";
+
+ // "Requests" from the directory to the caches on the fwd network
+ Inv, desc="Probe the cache and invalidate any matching blocks";
+ PutAck, desc="The put request has been processed.";
+}
+
+enumeration(CoherenceResponseType, desc="Types of response messages") {
+ Data, desc="Contains the most up-to-date data";
+ InvAck, desc="Message from another cache that they have inv. the blk";
+}
+
+structure(RequestMsg, desc="Used for Cache->Dir and Fwd messages",
+ interface="Message") {
+ // NOTE: You can't name addr "Addr" because it would conflict with the
+ // Addr *type*.
+ Addr addr, desc="Physical address for this request";
+ CoherenceRequestType Type, desc="Type of request";
+ MachineID Requestor, desc="Node who initiated the request";
+ NetDest Destination, desc="Multicast destination mask";
+ DataBlock DataBlk, desc="data for the cache line";
+ // NOTE: You *must* use MessageSize as the name of this variable, and it's
+ // required that you have a MessageSize for each type of message. You will
+ // the the error "panic: MessageSizeType() called on wrong message!"
+ MessageSizeType MessageSize, desc="size category of the message";
+
+ // This must be overridden here to support functional accesses
+ bool functionalRead(Packet *pkt) {
+ // Requests should never have the only copy of the most up-to-date data
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ bool functionalWrite(Packet *pkt) {
+ // No check on message type required since the protocol should read
+ // data block from only those messages that contain valid data
+ return testAndWrite(addr, DataBlk, pkt);
+ }
+}
+
+structure(ResponseMsg, desc="Used for Cache->Dir and Fwd messages",
+ interface="Message") {
+ Addr addr, desc="Physical address for this response";
+ CoherenceResponseType Type, desc="Type of response";
+ MachineID Sender, desc="Node who is responding to the request";
+ NetDest Destination, desc="Multicast destination mask";
+ DataBlock DataBlk, desc="data for the cache line";
+ MessageSizeType MessageSize, desc="size category of the message";
+ int Acks, desc="Number of acks required from others";
+
+ // This must be overridden here to support functional accesses
+ bool functionalRead(Packet *pkt) {
+ if (Type == CoherenceResponseType:Data) {
+ return testAndRead(addr, DataBlk, pkt);
+ }
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ bool functionalWrite(Packet *pkt) {
+ // No check on message type required since the protocol should read
+ // data block from only those messages that contain valid data
+ return testAndWrite(addr, DataBlk, pkt);
+ }
+}