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2016-11-30mem: Split the hit_latency into tag_latency and data_latencySophiane Senni
If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore, the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True", tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency. Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-02-10mem: Move the point of coherency to the coherent crossbarAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces the ability of making the coherent crossbar the point of coherency. If so, the crossbar does not forward packets where a cache with ownership has already committed to responding, and also does not forward any coherency-related packets that are not intended for a downstream memory controller. Thus, invalidations and upgrades are turned around in the crossbar, and the memory controller only sees normal reads and writes. In addition this patch moves the express snoop promotion of a packet to the crossbar, thus allowing the downstream cache to check the express snoop flag (as it should) for bypassing any blocking, rather than relying on whether a cache is responding or not.
2015-12-17configs: Make the default memtest behaviour more complexAndreas Hansson
Add functional and uncacheable accesses by default.
2015-11-06config: Update memtest to stress test clean writebacksAndreas Hansson
This patch adds yet another twist to the memtest cache hierarchy, in that the writeback_clean option is toggled at every level to match the clusivity of the downstream cache.
2015-11-06config: Update memtest to stress test cache clusivityAndreas Hansson
This patch adds an new twist to the memtest cache hierarchy, in that it switches from mostly inclusive to mostly exclusive at every level in the tree. This has helped weed out plenty issues, and serves as a good stress tests.
2015-08-21mem: Add explicit Cache subclass and make BaseCache abstractAndreas Hansson
Open up for other subclasses to BaseCache and transition to using the explicit Cache subclass. --HG-- rename : src/mem/cache/BaseCache.py => src/mem/cache/Cache.py
2015-07-03mem: Remove redundant is_top_level cache parameterAndreas Hansson
This patch takes the final step in removing the is_top_level parameter from the cache. With the recent changes to read requests and write invalidations, the parameter is no longer needed, and consequently removed. This also means that asymmetric cache hierarchies are now fully supported (and we are actually using them already with L1 caches, but no table-walker caches, connected to a shared L2).
2015-03-19config: Add soak test for memtest.pyAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a random option to memtest.py which allows the user to easily test valid random tree topologies. The patch also adds a wrapper script to run soak tests using the newly introduced option. We also adjust the progress interval and progress limit check to make the output less noisy, and avoid false positives. Bring on the pain.
2015-03-02mem: Move crossbar default latencies to subclassesAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces a few subclasses to the CoherentXBar and NoncoherentXBar to distinguish the different uses in the system. We use the crossbar in a wide range of places: interfacing cores to the L2, as a system interconnect, connecting I/O and peripherals, etc. Needless to say, these crossbars have very different performance, and the clock frequency alone is not enough to distinguish these scenarios. Instead of trying to capture every possible case, this patch introduces dedicated subclasses for the three primary use-cases: L2XBar, SystemXBar and IOXbar. More can be added if needed, and the defaults can be overridden.
2015-02-16config: Add memcheck stress testAndreas Hansson
This is a rather unfortunate copy of the memtest.py example script, that actually stresses the system with true sharing as opposed to the false sharing of the MemTest. To do so it uses TrafficGen instances to generate the reads/writes, and MemCheckerMonitor combined with the MemChecker to check the validity of the read/written values. As a bonus, this script also enables the addition of prefetchers, and the traffic is created to have a mix of random addresses and linear strides. We use the TaggedPrefetcher since the packets do not have a request with a PC. At the moment the code is almost identical to the memtest.py script, and no effort has been made to factor out the construction of the tree. The challenge is that the instantiation and connection of the testers and monitors is done as part of the tree building.
2015-02-11config: Revamp memtest to allow testers on any levelAndreas Hansson
This patch revamps the memtest example script and allows for the insertion of testers at any level in the cache hierarchy. Previously all created topologies placed testers only at the very top, and the tree was thus entirely symmetric. With the changes made, it is possible to not only place testers at the leaf caches (L1), but also to connect testers at the L2, L3 etc. As part of the changes the object hierarchy is also simplified to ensure that the visual representation from the DOT printing looks sensible. Using SubSystems to group the objects is one of the key features.
2015-02-11cpu: Tidy up the MemTest and make false sharing more obviousAndreas Hansson
The MemTest class really only tests false sharing, and as such there was a lot of old cruft that could be removed. This patch cleans up the tester, and also makes it more clear what the assumptions are. As part of this simplification the reference functional memory is also removed. The regression configs using MemTest are updated to reflect the changes, and the stats will be bumped in a separate patch. The example config will be updated in a separate patch due to more extensive re-work. In a follow-on patch a new tester will be introduced that uses the MemChecker to implement true sharing.
2014-09-20mem: Rename Bus to XBar to better reflect its behaviourAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the name of the Bus classes to XBar to better reflect the actual timing behaviour. The actual instances in the config scripts are not renamed, and remain as e.g. iobus or membus. As part of this renaming, the code has also been clean up slightly, making use of range-based for loops and tidying up some comments. The only changes outside the bus/crossbar code is due to the delay variables in the packet. --HG-- rename : src/mem/Bus.py => src/mem/XBar.py rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.cc => src/mem/coherent_xbar.cc rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.hh => src/mem/coherent_xbar.hh rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.cc => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.cc rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.hh => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.hh rename : src/mem/bus.cc => src/mem/xbar.cc rename : src/mem/bus.hh => src/mem/xbar.hh
2014-08-10config: Fix cache latency param in mem testRadhika Jagtap
This patch fixes the cache latency in mem test which is split into two params, hit and response latency as per BaseCache.
2013-10-17config: Fix memtest example scriptAli Saidi
2013-07-18config: Update script to set cache line size on systemAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the config scripts such that they do not set the cache line size per cache instance, but rather for the system as a whole.
2013-06-27sim: Add the notion of clock domains to all ClockedObjectsAkash Bagdia
This patch adds the notion of source- and derived-clock domains to the ClockedObjects. As such, all clock information is moved to the clock domain, and the ClockedObjects are grouped into domains. The clock domains are either source domains, with a specific clock period, or derived domains that have a parent domain and a divider (potentially chained). For piece of logic that runs at a derived clock (a ratio of the clock its parent is running at) the necessary derived clock domain is created from its corresponding parent clock domain. For now, the derived clock domain only supports a divider, thus ensuring a lower speed compared to its parent. Multiplier functionality implies a PLL logic that has not been modelled yet (create a separate clock instead). The clock domains should be used as a mechanism to provide a controllable clock source that affects clock for every clocked object lying beneath it. The clock of the domain can (in a future patch) be controlled by a handler responsible for dynamic frequency scaling of the respective clock domains. All the config scripts have been retro-fitted with clock domains. For the System a default SrcClockDomain is created. For CPUs that run at a different speed than the system, there is a seperate clock domain created. This domain incorporates the CPU and the associated caches. As before, Ruby runs under its own clock domain. The clock period of all domains are pre-computed, such that no virtual functions or multiplications are needed when calling clockPeriod. Instead, the clock period is pre-computed when any changes occur. For this to be possible, each clock domain tracks its children.
2013-06-27config: Add a system clock command-line optionAkash Bagdia
This patch adds a 'sys_clock' command-line option and use it to assign clocks to the system during instantiation. As part of this change, the default clock in the System class is removed and whenever a system is instantiated a system clock value must be set. A default value is provided for the command-line option. The configs and tests are updated accordingly.
2012-09-27Configs: Fix memtest cache latency to match new parametersAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the memtest config to use the new response latency of the cache model.
2012-09-27Configs: Fix memtest.py by moving the system portAndreas Hansson
The memtest.py script used to connect the system port directly to the SimpleMemory, but the latter is now single ported. Since the system port is not used for anything in this particular example, a quick fix is to attach it to the functional bus instead.
2012-07-12Mem: Make SimpleMemory single portedAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the simple memory to have a single slave port rather than a vector port. The simple memory makes no attempts at modelling the contention between multiple ports, and any such multiplexing and demultiplexing could be done in a bus (or crossbar) outside the memory controller. This scenario also matches with the ongoing work on a SimpleDRAM model, which will be a single-ported single-channel controller that can be used in conjunction with a bus (or crossbar) to create a multi-port multi-channel controller. There are only very few regressions that make use of the vector port, and these are all for functional accesses only. To facilitate these cases, memtest and memtest-ruby have been updated to also have a "functional" bus to perform the (de)multiplexing of the functional memory accesses.
2012-05-31Bus: Split the bus into a non-coherent and coherent busAndreas Hansson
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
2012-04-06MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memoriesAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous address range. All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory. To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut" accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and any potential ACPI tables. Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible re-organisation. --HG-- rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/AbstractMemory.py rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/SimpleMemory.py rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/abstract_mem.cc rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/abstract_mem.hh rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/simple_mem.cc rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/simple_mem.hh
2012-02-14MEM: Fix residual bus ports and make them master/slaveAndreas Hansson
This patch cleans up a number of remaining uses of bus.port which is now split into bus.master and bus.slave. The only non-trivial change is the memtest where the level building now has to be aware of the role of the ports used in the previous level.
2012-01-28SE/FS: Make SE vs. FS mode a runtime parameter.Gabe Black
2010-08-25memtest: scale associativity and mshrs according to configSteve Reinhardt
Use the actual fanouts in the tree specification to scale cache associativity and mshrs instead of dumb constants.
2010-08-17sim: make Python Root object a singletonSteve Reinhardt
Enforce that the Python Root SimObject is instantiated only once. The C++ Root object already panics if more than one is created. This change avoids the need to track what the root object is, since it's available from Root.getInstance() (if it exists). It's now redundant to have the user pass the root object to functions like instantiate(), checkpoint(), and restoreCheckpoint(), so that arg is gone. Users who use configs/common/Simulate.py should not notice.
2009-09-22python: Move more code into m5.util allow SCons to use that code.Nathan Binkert
Get rid of misc.py and just stick misc things in __init__.py Move utility functions out of SCons files and into m5.util Move utility type stuff from m5/__init__.py to m5/util/__init__.py Remove buildEnv from m5 and allow access only from m5.defines Rename AddToPath to addToPath while we're moving it to m5.util Rename read_command to readCommand while we're moving it Rename compare_versions to compareVersions while we're moving it. --HG-- rename : src/python/m5/convert.py => src/python/m5/util/convert.py rename : src/python/m5/smartdict.py => src/python/m5/util/smartdict.py
2007-07-15Fix up a bunch of multilevel coherence issues.Steve Reinhardt
Atomic mode seems to work. Timing is closer but not there yet. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 0dea5c3d4b973d009e9d4a4c21b9cad15961d56f
2007-07-15Fix problem with unset max_loads in memtest.Steve Reinhardt
Also make default 0, and make that mean run forever. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 3e60a52b1c5e334a9ef3d744cf7ee1d851ba4aa9
2007-07-15Punt on old -n/-c memtest args.Steve Reinhardt
Also added comments to document treespec format. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : fa9e8f66b68b96a4efca8a7fe6e7c37367382d9d
2007-07-15Add --force-bus option to memtest.py.Steve Reinhardt
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 101735cca426903704ff2edaff051fa7c5bfc46c
2007-07-14New tree-based algorithm for creating more complex cache hierarchies.Steve Reinhardt
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : de8dd4ef5dae0f3e084461e8ef7c549653e61d3f
2007-06-27Get rid of coherence protocol object.Steve Reinhardt
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2007-06-21Getting closer...Steve Reinhardt
configs/example/memtest.py: Add progress interval option. src/base/traceflags.py: Add MemTest flag. src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc: Clean up tracing. src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh: Get rid of unused code. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 92bd8241a6c90bfb6d908e5a5132cbdb500cbb87
2007-06-17More major reorg of cache. Seems to work for atomic mode now,Steve Reinhardt
timing mode still broken. configs/example/memtest.py: Revamp options. src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc: No need for memory initialization. No need to make atomic response... memory system should do that now. src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh: MemTest really doesn't want to snoop. src/mem/bridge.cc: checkFunctional() cleanup. src/mem/bus.cc: src/mem/bus.hh: src/mem/cache/base_cache.cc: src/mem/cache/base_cache.hh: src/mem/cache/cache.cc: src/mem/cache/cache.hh: src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh: src/mem/cache/cache_builder.cc: src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh: src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.cc: src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.hh: src/mem/cache/coherence/simple_coherence.hh: src/mem/cache/miss/SConscript: src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc: src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh: src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc: src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh: src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh: src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/iic.hh: src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh: src/mem/cache/tags/split.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh: src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh: src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc: src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh: src/mem/packet.cc: src/mem/packet.hh: src/mem/physical.cc: src/mem/physical.hh: src/mem/tport.cc: More major reorg. Seems to work for atomic mode now, timing mode still broken. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 7e70dfc4a752393b911880ff028271433855ae87
2007-05-22memtest.py:Steve Reinhardt
Make clocks more reasonable. Fix bug in sense of options.timing flag. configs/example/memtest.py: Fix bug in sense of options.timing flag. configs/example/memtest.py: Make clocks more reasonable. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 3715697988c56e92a4da129b42026d0623f5e85e
2007-05-19PhysicalMemory has vector of uniform ports instead of one special one.Steve Reinhardt
configs/example/memtest.py: PhysicalMemory has vector of uniform ports instead of one special one. Other updates to fix obsolete brokenness. src/mem/physical.cc: src/mem/physical.hh: src/python/m5/objects/PhysicalMemory.py: Have vector of uniform ports instead of one special one. src/python/swig/pyobject.cc: Add comment. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : a4a764dcdcd9720bcd07c979d0ece311fc8cb4f1
2006-11-12Update for maxtick in splash2/memtest configsRon Dreslinski
configs/example/memtest.py: configs/splash2/run.py: Update for maxtick --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 94106625be1ebc2b614db16720a4861e47222c0b
2006-10-20Give physical memory some latency to stress the systemRon Dreslinski
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 3ca32ff9140770d0774cac5e82807a0574db09dd
2006-10-20Add a config file in the example with the memtester and some parser options.Ron Dreslinski
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