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2019-05-08	mem-cache: Add compression and decompression calls	Daniel R. Carvalho
	Add a compressor to the base cache class and compress within block allocation and decompress on writebacks. This change does not implement data expansion (fat writes) yet, nor it adds the compression latency to the block write time. Change-Id: Ie36db65f7487c9b05ec4aedebc2c7651b4cb4821 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11410 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-05-08	mem-cache: Add compression stats	Daniel R. Carvalho
	Add compression statistics to the compressors. It tracks the number of blocks that can fit into a certain power of two size, and the number of decompressions. For example, if a block is compressed to 100 bits, it will belong to the 128-bits compression size. Although it could also fit bigger sizes, they are not taken into account for the stats (i.e., the 100-bit compression will fit only the 128-bits size, not 256 or higher). We save stats for compressions that fail (i.e., compressed size is bigger than original cache line size). Change-Id: Idab71a40a660e33259908ccd880e42a880b5ee06 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11103 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-05-08	mem-cache: Create cache compressor	Daniel R. Carvalho
	Create basic template for cache compressors. A basic compressor must implement a compression and a decompression method. Change-Id: I83dc4d2b8d2bc5ed9f760c938edfa4ebdd6b8583 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11100 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>