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M5 skips over any simulated time where it doesn't have any work to do. When
the simulation is active, the time skipped is short and the work done at any
point in time is relatively substantial. If the time between events is long
and/or the work to do at each event is small, it's possible for simulated time
to pass faster than real time. When running a benchmark that can be good
because it means the simulation will finish sooner in real time. When
interacting with the real world through, for instance, a serial terminal or
bridge to a real network, this can be a problem. Human or network response time
could be greatly exagerated from the perspective of the simulation and make
simulated events happen "too soon" from an external perspective.
This change adds the capability to force the simulation to run no faster than
real time. It does so by scheduling a periodic event that checks to see if
its simulated period is shorter than its real period. If it is, it stalls the
simulation until they're equal. This is called time syncing.
A future change could add pseudo instructions which turn time syncing on and
off from within the simulation. That would allow time syncing to be used for
the interactive parts of a session but then turned off when running a
benchmark using the m5 utility program inside a script. Time syncing would
probably not happen anyway while running a benchmark because there would be
plenty of work for M5 to do, but the event overhead could be avoided.
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Use the actual fanouts in the tree specification to scale
cache associativity and mshrs instead of dumb constants.
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Since ruby only works in timing mode, explicitly requiring the timing cmd line
param to be specified is not necessary.
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This patch moves the testers to a new subdirectory under src/cpu and includes
the necessary fixes to work with latest m5 initialization patches.
--HG--
rename : configs/example/determ_test.py => configs/example/ruby_direct_test.py
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.cc => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.cc
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.hh => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.hh
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.cc => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.cc
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.hh => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.hh
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.cc => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.cc
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.hh => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.hh
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.py => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.py
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/SConscript => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/SConscript
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.cc => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.cc
rename : src/cpu/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.hh => src/cpu/testers/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.hh
rename : src/cpu/memtest/MemTest.py => src/cpu/testers/memtest/MemTest.py
rename : src/cpu/memtest/SConscript => src/cpu/testers/memtest/SConscript
rename : src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc => src/cpu/testers/memtest/memtest.cc
rename : src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh => src/cpu/testers/memtest/memtest.hh
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/Check.cc => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/Check.cc
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/Check.hh => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/Check.hh
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/CheckTable.cc => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/CheckTable.cc
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/CheckTable.hh => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/CheckTable.hh
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/RubyTester.cc => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/RubyTester.cc
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/RubyTester.hh => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/RubyTester.hh
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/RubyTester.py => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/RubyTester.py
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/SConscript => src/cpu/testers/rubytest/SConscript
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Added the request series and invalidate deterministic tests as new cpu models
and removed the no longer needed ruby tests
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rename : configs/example/rubytest.py => configs/example/determ_test.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.cc => src/cpu/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.hh => src/cpu/directedtest/DirectedGenerator.hh
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.cc => src/cpu/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.hh => src/cpu/directedtest/InvalidateGenerator.hh
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/RubyTester.cc => src/cpu/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.cc
rename : src/cpu/rubytest/RubyTester.hh => src/cpu/directedtest/RubyDirectedTester.hh
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.cc => src/cpu/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/tester/DetermGETXGenerator.hh => src/cpu/directedtest/SeriesRequestGenerator.hh
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The previous slower ruby latencies created a mismatch between the faster M5
cpu models and the much slower ruby memory system. Specifically smp
interrupts were much slower and infrequent, as well as cpus moving in and out
of spin locks. The result was many cpus were idle for large periods of time.
These changes fix the latency mismatch.
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This patch adds DMA testing to the Memtester and is inherits many changes from
Polina's old tester_dma_extension patch. Since Ruby does not work in atomic
mode, the atomic mode options are removed.
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This patch attaches ruby objects to the system before the topology is
created so that their simobject names read their meaningful variable
names instead of their topology name.
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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.
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Now ruby_fs creates physical memory of the right size.
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Most of these frontend configurations share cache configuration code, pull it out so that
changes to caches don't have to require changing multiple config files.
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On the config end, if a shared L2 is created for the system, it is
parameterized to have n sharers as defined by option.num_cpus. In addition to
making the cache sharing aware so that discriminating tag policies can make use
of context_ids to make decisions, I added an occupancy AverageStat and an occ %
stat to each cache so that you could know which contexts are occupying how much
cache on average, both in terms of blocks and percentage. Note that since
devices have context_id -1, having an array of occ stats that correspond to
each context_id will break here, so in FS mode I add an extra bucket for device
blocks. This bucket is explicitly not added in SE mode in order to not only
avoid ugliness in the stats.txt file, but to avoid broken stats (some formulas
break when a bucket is 0).
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Converted both ruby caches and directory memory to use the M5 MemorySize python
type.
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Reorganized ruby python configuration so that protocol and ruby memory system
configuration code can be shared by multiple front-end configuration files
(i.e. memory tester, full system, and hopefully the regression tester). This
code works for memory tester, but have not tested fs mode.
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This patch includes a rather substantial change to the memory controller
profiler in order to work with the new configuration system. Most
noteably, the mem_cntrl_profiler no longer uses a string map, but instead
a vector. Eventually this support should be removed from the main
profiler and go into a separate object. Each memory controller should have
a pointer to that new mem_cntrl profile object.
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As a first step to migrate ruby to the M5 eventqueue, added a clock
variable to the ruby system.
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This patch includes the necessary changes to connect ruby objects using
the python configuration system. Mainly it consists of removing
unnecessary ruby object pointers and connecting the necessary object
pointers using the generated param objects. This patch includes the
slicc changes necessary to connect generated ruby objects together using
the python configuraiton system.
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rather than in RubySystem object.
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The necessary companion conversion of Ruby objects generated by SLICC
are converted to M5 SimObjects in the following patch, so this patch
alone does not compile.
Conversion of Garnet network models is also handled in a separate
patch; that code is temporarily disabled from compiling to allow
testing of interim code.
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Slightly improved the major hack need to correctly assign the number of ports
per core. CPUs have two ports: icache + dcache. MemTester has one port.
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Connects M5 cpu and dma ports directly to ruby sequencers and dma
sequencers. Rubymem also includes a pio port so that pio requests
and be forwarded to a special pio bus connecting to device pio
ports.
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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
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fix bug with 'numThreads=len(workloads)' which was counting characters of command-line not counting threads as intended.
Update numThreads for inorder/o3 cases and default to 1 for all other cases.
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This changeset also includes a lot of work from Derek Hower <drh5@cs.wisc.edu>
RubyMemory is now both a driver for Ruby and a port for M5. Changed
makeRequest/hitCallback interface. Brought packets (superficially)
into the sequencer. Modified tester infrastructure to be packet based.
and Ruby can be used together through the example ruby_se.py
script. SPARC parallel applications work, and the timing *seems* right
from combined M5/Ruby debug traces. To run,
% build/ALPHA_SE/m5.debug configs/example/ruby_se.py -c
tests/test-progs/hello/bin/alpha/linux/hello -n 4 -t
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interrupt assignment.
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Previously there was one per bus, which caused some coherence problems
when more than one decided to respond. Now there is just one on
the main memory bus. The default bus responder on all other buses
is now the downstream cache's cpu_side port. Caches no longer need
to do address range filtering; instead, we just have a simple flag
to prevent snoops from propagating to the I/O bus.
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information about an error.
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- Add the option of redirecting stderr to a file. With the old
behaviour, stderr would follow stdout if stdout was to a file, but
stderr went to the host stderr if stdout went to the host stdout. The
new default maintains stdout and stderr going to the host. Now the
two can specify different files, but they will share a file descriptor
if the name of the files is the same.
- Add --output and --errout options to se.py to go with --input.
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