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2012-03-09cache: Allow main memory to be at disjoint address ranges.Ali Saidi
2012-02-13MEM: Introduce the master/slave port roles in the Python classesAndreas Hansson
This patch classifies all ports in Python as either Master or Slave and enforces a binding of master to slave. Conceptually, a master (such as a CPU or DMA port) issues requests, and receives responses, and conversely, a slave (such as a memory or a PIO device) receives requests and sends back responses. Currently there is no differentiation between coherent and non-coherent masters and slaves. The classification as master/slave also involves splitting the dual role port of the bus into a master and slave port and updating all the system assembly scripts to use the appropriate port. Similarly, the interrupt devices have to have their int_port split into a master and slave port. The intdev and its children have minimal changes to facilitate the extra port. Note that this patch does not enforce any port typing in the C++ world, it merely ensures that the Python objects have a notion of the port roles and are connected in an appropriate manner. This check is carried when two ports are connected, e.g. bus.master = memory.port. The following patches will make use of the classifications and specialise the C++ ports into masters and slaves.
2012-02-12mem: fix cache stats to use request ids correctlyDam Sunwoo
This patch fixes the cache stats to use the new request ids. Cache stats also display the requestor names in the vector subnames. Most cache stats now include "nozero" and "nonan" flags to reduce the amount of excessive cache stat dump. Also, simplified incMissCount()/incHitCount() functions.
2012-02-12prefetcher: Make prefetcher a sim object instead of it being a parameter on ↵Mrinmoy Ghosh
cache
2011-03-17Mem: Fix issue with dirty block being lost when entire block transferred to ↵Ali Saidi
non-cache. This change fixes the problem for all the cases we actively use. If you want to try more creative I/O device attachments (E.g. sharing an L2), this won't work. You would need another level of caching between the I/O device and the cache (which you actually need anyway with our current code to make sure writes propagate). This is required so that you can mark the cache in between as top level and it won't try to send ownership of a block to the I/O device. Asserts have been added that should catch any issues.
2010-02-23cache: Make caches sharing aware and add occupancy stats.Lisa Hsu
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).
2009-09-26Force prefetches to check cache and MSHRs immediately prior to issue.Steve Reinhardt
This prevents redundant prefetches from being issued, solving the occasional 'needsExclusive && !blk->isWritable()' assertion failure in cache_impl.hh that several people have run into. Eliminates "prefetch_cache_check_push" flag, neither setting of which really solved the problem.
2008-07-16mem: use single BadAddr responder per system.Steve Reinhardt
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.
2009-02-16Fixes to get prefetching working again.Steve Reinhardt
Apparently we broke it with the cache rewrite and never noticed. Thanks to Bao Yungang <baoyungang@gmail.com> for a significant part of these changes (and for inspiring me to work on the rest). Some other overdue cleanup on the prefetch code too.
2008-10-23remove the totally obsolete split cacheLisa Hsu
2007-08-10DMA: Add IOCache and fix bus bridge to optionally only send requests oneAli Saidi
way so a cache can handle partial block requests for i/o devices. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : a68b5ae826731bc87ed93eb7ef326a2393053964
2007-08-03cache: get rid of obsolete params from python.Steve Reinhardt
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2007-06-30Get rid of remaining traces of obsolete CoherenceProtocol object.Steve Reinhardt
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2007-06-20Make sure all parameters have default values if they'reNathan Binkert
supposed to and make sure parameters have the right type. Also make sure that any object that should be an intermediate type has the right options set. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : d56910628d9a067699827adbc0a26ab629d11e93
2007-06-09More realistic parametersNathan Binkert
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2007-05-27Move SimObject python files alongside the C++ and fixNathan Binkert
the SConscript files so that only the objects that are actually available in a given build are compiled in. Remove a bunch of files that aren't used anymore. --HG-- rename : src/python/m5/objects/AlphaTLB.py => src/arch/alpha/AlphaTLB.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/SparcTLB.py => src/arch/sparc/SparcTLB.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/BaseCPU.py => src/cpu/BaseCPU.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/FuncUnit.py => src/cpu/FuncUnit.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/IntrControl.py => src/cpu/IntrControl.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/MemTest.py => src/cpu/memtest/MemTest.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/FUPool.py => src/cpu/o3/FUPool.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/FuncUnitConfig.py => src/cpu/o3/FuncUnitConfig.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/O3CPU.py => src/cpu/o3/O3CPU.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/OzoneCPU.py => src/cpu/ozone/OzoneCPU.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/SimpleOzoneCPU.py => src/cpu/ozone/SimpleOzoneCPU.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/BadDevice.py => src/dev/BadDevice.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Device.py => src/dev/Device.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/DiskImage.py => src/dev/DiskImage.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Ethernet.py => src/dev/Ethernet.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Ide.py => src/dev/Ide.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Pci.py => src/dev/Pci.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Platform.py => src/dev/Platform.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/SimConsole.py => src/dev/SimConsole.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/SimpleDisk.py => src/dev/SimpleDisk.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Uart.py => src/dev/Uart.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/AlphaConsole.py => src/dev/alpha/AlphaConsole.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Tsunami.py => src/dev/alpha/Tsunami.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/T1000.py => src/dev/sparc/T1000.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Bridge.py => src/mem/Bridge.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Bus.py => src/mem/Bus.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/MemObject.py => src/mem/MemObject.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/BaseCache.py => src/mem/cache/BaseCache.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/CoherenceProtocol.py => src/mem/cache/coherence/CoherenceProtocol.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Repl.py => src/mem/cache/tags/Repl.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Process.py => src/sim/Process.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/Root.py => src/sim/Root.py rename : src/python/m5/objects/System.py => src/sim/System.py extra : convert_revision : 173f8764bafa8ef899198438fa5573874e407321