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Replacement policies aren't aware of cache sets and do not
organize blocks based on replacement data. Block search is
independent of block placement.
Besides, indexing policies have their own way of addressing
the sets, therefore there is no need to use this class anymore.
BlkType has been removed, as it wasn't being used.
Change-Id: Ia79c2a491e59f295c8d60a0466c317eb0e2bdab9
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/9782
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Split indexing functionality from tags, so that code duplication
is reduced when adding new classes that use different indexing
policies, such as set associative, skewed associative or other
hash-based policies.
An indexing policy defines the mapping between an address' set
and its physical location. For example, a conventional set assoc
cache maps an address to all ways in a set using an immutable
function, that is, a set x is always mapped to set x. However,
skewed assoc caches map an address to a different set for each way,
using a skewing function.
FALRU has been left unmodified as it is a specialization with its
own complexity.
Change-Id: I0838b41663f21eba0aeab7aeb7839e3703ca3324
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8885
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Replaceable entries belong to table-like structures, and therefore
they should be indexable by combining a row and a column. These,
using conventional cache nomenclature translate to sets and ways.
Make these entries aware of their sets and ways. The idea is to
make indexing policies usable by other table-like structures. In
order to do so we move sets and ways to ReplaceableEntry, which
will be the common base among table entries.
Change-Id: If0e3dacf9ea2f523af9cface067469ccecf82648
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12764
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Use possible locations to find block to make it placement policy
independent.
Change-Id: I4c9d9e1e1ff91ce12e85ca1970f927d8f4f5a93b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8884
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Having the blocks initialized in the constructor makes it harder
to apply inheritance in the tags classes. This patch decouples
the block initialization functionality from the constructor by
using an init() function. It also sets the parent cache.
Change-Id: I0da7fdaae492b1177c7cc3bda8639f79921fbbeb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/11509
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Move tagsInUse to children, as sector caches have different
tag invalidation and insertion, and thus they must handle
updating this variable.
Change-Id: I875c9b7364a909c76daf610d1e226c4e82063870
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10721
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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With a sector cache you can't find a block using only its set
and way, as there is the sector offset to take into account. As
all of these blocks inherit from ReplaceableEntry, the return
type of this function has been updated.
This function has also been declared closer to findBlock() due
to their similar functionality.
Change-Id: I4730a2b4ebb5738f7fc118201e208a1b9c3ba8e8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10141
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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This change modifies forEachBlk tags function to accept std::function
as parameter. It also adds an anyBlk tags function that given a
condition, it iterates through the blocks and returns whether the
condition is met.
Finally, it uses forEachBlk to implement the print, computeStats and
cleanupRefs functions that also work for the FALRU class.
Change-Id: I2f75f4baa1fdd5a1d343a63ecace3eb9458fbf03
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10621
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I111b0f662897c43974aadb08da1ed85c7542585c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10433
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Replacement data is specific for each replacement policy, and thus
should be instantiated differently by each policy.
Touch() and reset() do not need to be aware of CacheBlk, as they
only update its ReplacementData.
Invalidate() makes replacement policies independent of cache blocks,
by removing the awareness of the valid state.
An inheritable base ReplaceableEntry class was created to allow usage
of replacement policies with any table-like structure.
Change-Id: I998917d800fa48504ed95abffa2f1b7bfd68522b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9421
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Use block iteration instead of numSets and assoc in print(),
cleanupRefs() and computeStats().
This makes these functions rely solely on what they are used for:
printing and calculating stats of blocks. With the addition of
Sectors an extra indirection level is added, and thus these
functions would be skipping blocks.
Change-Id: I0006f82736cce02ba3e501ffafe9236f748daf32
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10143
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Removal of unused/barely used 'using namespace' from C++ files.
Change-Id: I66dc548c04506db2e41180b9ea7ab5abd7d5375a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9601
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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FALRU didn't initialize the blocks' data, causing seg faults.
This patch does not make FALRU functional yet.
Change-Id: I10cbcf5afc3f8bc357eeb8b7cb46789dec47ba8b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9302
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Replacement policies (LRU, Random) are currently considered as array
indexing methods, but have completely different functionalities:
- Array indexers determine the possible locations for block allocation.
This information is used to generate replacement candidates when
conflicts happen.
- Replacement policies determine which of the replacement candidates
should be evicted to make room for new allocations.
For this reason, they were split into different classes. Advantages:
- Easier and more straightforward to implement other replacement
policies (RRIP, LFU, ARC, ...)
- Allow easier future implementation of cache organization schemes
As now we can't assure the use of sets, the previous way to create a
true LRU is not viable. Now a timestamp_bits parameter controls how
many bits are dedicated for the timestamp, and a true LRU can be
achieved through an infinite number of bits (although a few bits suffice
in practice).
Change-Id: I23750db121f1474d17831137e6ff618beb2b3eda
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8501
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Removed extra initialization of cache block just after they have been
created and organized the comments.
Change-Id: I75c1beaf0489e3e530fd8cbff2739dc7593e3e6f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8661
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Transform BaseSetAssoc's arrays into C++ vectors to avoid unnecessary
resource management.
Change-Id: I656f42f29e5f9589eba491b410ca1df5a64f2f34
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8621
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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CacheSet blocks were being allocated but never freed.
Used vector to avoid using pure C array.
Change-Id: I6f32fa5a305ff4e1d7602535026c1396764102ed
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8603
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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The warmupPercentage is the percentage of different tags (based on the
cache size) that need to be touched in order to warm up the cache.
If Warmup failed (i.e., not enough tags were touched), warmup_cycle = 0.
The warmup is not being taken into account to calculate the stats (i.e.,
stats acquisition starts before cache is warmed up). Maybe in the future
this functionality should be added.
Change-Id: I2b93a99c19fddb99a4c60e6d4293fa355744d05e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8061
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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numSets is unsigned, so it cannot be lower than 0. Besides, isPowerOf2(0)
is false by definition (and implemmentation*), so there is no need for the
double check.
* As presented in base/intmath.hh
Change-Id: I3f6296694a937434feddc7ed21f11c2a6fdfc5a9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7901
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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blkAlign was defined as a separate function in the base associative
and fully-associative tags classes although both functions implemented
identical functionality. This patch moves the blkAlign in the base
tags class.
Change-Id: I3d415d0e62bddeec7ce0d559667e40a8c5fdc2d4
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I6149290d6d2ac1a4bd6165871c93d7b7d6a980ad
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: Ia57cc104978861ab342720654e408dbbfcbe4b69
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Cleaning up dead code. The CLREX stores zero directly to
MISCREG_LOCKFLAG and so the request flag is no longer needed. The
corresponding functionality in the cache tags is also removed.
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This patch makes cache sets aware of the way number. This enables
some nice features such as the ablity to restrict way allocation. The
implemented mechanism allows to set a maximum way number to be
allocated 'k' which must fulfill 0 < k <= N (where N is the number of
ways). In the future more sophisticated mechasims can be implemented.
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This patch changes the cache implementation to rely on virtual methods
rather than using the replacement policy as a template argument.
There is no impact on the simulation performance, and overall the
changes make it easier to modify (and subclass) the cache and/or
replacement policy.
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This patch adds some much-needed clarity in the specification of the
cache timing. For now, hit_latency and response_latency are kept as
top-level parameters, but the cache itself has a number of local
variables to better map the individual timing variables to different
behaviours (and sub-components).
The introduced variables are:
- lookupLatency: latency of tag lookup, occuring on any access
- forwardLatency: latency that occurs in case of outbound miss
- fillLatency: latency to fill a cache block
We keep the existing responseLatency
The forwardLatency is used by allocateInternalBuffer() for:
- MSHR allocateWriteBuffer (unchached write forwarded to WriteBuffer);
- MSHR allocateMissBuffer (cacheable miss in MSHR queue);
- MSHR allocateUncachedReadBuffer (unchached read allocated in MSHR
queue)
It is our assumption that the time for the above three buffers is the
same. Similarly, for snoop responses passing through the cache we use
forwardLatency.
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Static analysis unearther a bunch of uninitialised variables and
members, and this patch addresses the problem. In all cases these
omissions seem benign in the end, but at least fixing them means less
false positives next time round.
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this patch implements a new tags class that uses a random replacement policy.
these tags prefer to evict invalid blocks first, if none are available a
replacement candidate is chosen at random.
this patch factors out the common code in the LRU class and creates a new
abstract class: the BaseSetAssoc class. any set associative tag class must
implement the functionality related to the actual replacement policy in the
following methods:
accessBlock()
findVictim()
insertBlock()
invalidate()
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