summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/mem/cache
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2019-02-28mem-cache: Sandbox Based Optimal Offset ImplementationIvan Pizarro
Brown, N. T., & Sendag, R. Sandbox Based Optimal Offset Estimation. Change-Id: Ieb693b6b2c3d8bdfb6948389ca10e92c85454862 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15095 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-02-26mem-cache: Copy over flags to forwarded responseNikos Nikoleris
A cache that forwards a request to the memory below does not fill and forwards the response with the data to cache above. This change ensures that the flags of the original response are also preserved. Change-Id: I244b20b073c31b976358816c5b14bba413b8271f Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16182 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
2019-02-25mem-cache: added missing override specifier in BoPAndrea Mondelli
Added missing specifier for various virtual functions. Change-Id: I41aebb3b76bce6dd3bee21ac0e2b0e52cb90fc80 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16728 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-02-25mem-cache: A Best-Offset PrefetcherIvan Pizarro
Michaud, P. (2015, June). A best-offset prefetcher. In 2nd Data Prefetching Championship. Change-Id: I61bb89ca5639356d54aeb04e856d5bf6e8805c22 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14820 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-02-22mem-cache: Add a mechanism to iterate all entries of an AssociativeSetJavier Bueno
Added functions to obtain an iterator to access all entries of an AssociativeSet container. Change-Id: I1ec555bd97d97e3edaced2b8f61287e922279c26 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16582 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-02-21mem-cache: Added the Slim AMPM PrefetcherJavier Bueno
Reference: Towards Bandwidth-Efficient Prefetching with Slim AMPM. Young, V., & Krishna, A. (2015). The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship. Slim AMPM is composed of two prefetchers, the DPCT and the AMPM (both already in gem5). Change-Id: I6e868faf216e3e75231cf181d59884ed6f0d382a Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16383 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-02-12mem-cache: Irregular Stream Buffer PrefetcherJavier Bueno
Based in the description of the following publication: Akanksha Jain and Calvin Lin. 2013. Linearizing irregular memory accesses for improved correlated prefetching. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 247-259. Change-Id: Ibeb6abc93ca40ad634df6ed5cf8becb0a49d1165 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15215 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
2019-02-12mem-cache: Added the Delta Correlating Prediction Tables PrefetcherJavier Bueno
Reference: Multi-level hardware prefetching using low complexity delta correlating prediction tables with partial matching. Marius Grannaes, Magnus Jahre, and Lasse Natvig. 2010. In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC'10) Change-Id: I7b5d7ede9284862a427cfd5693a47652a69ed49d Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16062 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-02-12python: Don't assume SimObjects live in the global namespaceAndreas Sandberg
The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files consistent with configuration files. Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
2019-02-01mem-cache: Updated version of the Signature Path PrefetcherJavier Bueno
This implementation is based in the description available in: Jinchun Kim, Seth H. Pugsley, Paul V. Gratz, A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Chris Wilkerson, and Zeshan Chishti. 2016. Path confidence based lookahead prefetching. In The 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-49). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, Article 60, 12 pages. Change-Id: I4b8b54efef48ced7044bd535de9a69bca68d47d9 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14819 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-01-17mem: Determine if a packet queue forces ordering at constructionNikos Nikoleris
A packet queue is typically used to hold on to packets that are schedules to be sent in the future or when they need to queue behind younger packets that have been sent out yet. Due to memory order requirements, some MemObjects need to maintain the order for packet (mostly responses) that reference the same cache block. Prior to this patch the ordering requirements where determined when the packet was scheduled to be sent. This patch moves the parameter to the constructor. Change-Id: Ieb4d94e86bc7514f5036b313ec23ea47dd653164 Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15555 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2019-01-16mem-cache: Access Map Pattern Matching PrefetcherJavier Bueno
Implementation of the Access Map Pattern Matching prefetcher Based in the description of the following paper: Access map pattern matching for high performance data cache prefetch. Ishii, Y., Inaba, M., & Hiraki, K. (2011). Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, 13, 1-24. Change-Id: I0d4b7f7afc2ab4938bdd8755bfed26e26a28530c Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15096 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-01-16mem-cache: Signature Path PrefetcherJavier Bueno
Related paper: Lookahead Prefetching with Signature Path J Kim, PV Gratz, ALN Reddy The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC2), 2015 Change-Id: I2319be2fa409f955f65e1bf1e1bb2d6d9a4fea11 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14737 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-01-16mem-cache: allow prefetchers to emit page crossing referencesJavier Bueno
QueuedPrefetcher takes the responsability to check for page crossing references. Change-Id: I0ae6bf8be465118990d9ea1cac0da8f70e69aeb1 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14735 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-01-16mem-cache: virtual address support for prefetchersJavier Bueno
Prefetchers can be configured to operate with virtual or physical addreses. The option can be configured through the "use_virtual_addresses" parameter of the Prefetcher object. Change-Id: I4f8c3687988afecc8a91c3c5b2d44cc0580f72aa Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14416 Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-12-07mem-cache: Workaround for setWhenReady assertionDaniel R. Carvalho
Change 174da8e2da6a896d2e97bc264f9c827a0f4c35ac added an assert that is not satisfiable with current implementation, breaking some regression tests. Change-Id: Ibafaf0c51906384364f0b2a4b931f8ec6126d858 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14955 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-12-05mem-cache: Remove writebacks parameter from serviceMSHRTargetsDaniel R. Carvalho
Change 8ba77ae8fc98a355082da2bd9fdc6ecf4928f725 introduced the writebacks parameter, but it was never used. Change-Id: I225e5b399de42d77c72fc0012d3dc93ef39b8853 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14896 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-12-04mem-cache: Add getter and setter to CacheBlk::whenReadyDaniel R. Carvalho
Add a getter and a setter function to access CacheBlk::whenReady to encapsulate the variable and allow error checking. This error checking consists on verifying that writes to a block after it has been inserted follow a chronological order. As a side effect, tickInserted retain its value until updated, that is, it is not reset in invalidate(). Change-Id: Idc3c5a99c3f002ee9acc2424f00e554877fd3a69 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14715 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-12-03mem-cache: Optimize sector valid and secure checkDaniel R. Carvalho
Previously a loop was being done to check whether the block was valid/secure or not. Variables have been added to skip this loop and save and update sector block state when sub-blocks are validated, invalidated and secured. Change-Id: Ie1734f7dfda9698c7bf22a1fcbfc47ffb9239cea Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14363 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-11-27arch, base, cpu, gpu, mem: Replace assert(0 or false with panic.Gabe Black
Neither assert(0) nor assert(false) give any hint as to why control getting to them is bad, and their more descriptive versions, assert(0 && "description") and assert(false && "description"), jury rig assert to add an error message when the utility function panic() already does that directly with better formatting options. This change replaces that flavor of call to assert with panic, except in the actual code which processes the formatting that panic uses (to avoid infinitely recurring error handling), and in some *.sm files since I don't know what rules those have to follow and don't want to accidentaly break them. Change-Id: I8addfbfaf77eaed94ec8191f2ae4efb477cefdd0 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14636 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-11-26mem-cache: Add setters to validate and secure blockDaniel R. Carvalho
In order to allow polymorphism of the block these two functions have been added, and all direct status assignments to these bits have been substituted. We also assert that the block has been invalidated before insertion. Then the block is validated in the insertion. Change-Id: Ie7be42408721ad4c2c9dc880f82a62cb594f8668 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14362 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-18mem-cache: a missing cast was truncating addressesJavier Bueno
High bits were truncated when computing the block address Change-Id: Iab2a4c6063ece2d1d4c24ce5686045a6d6d35434 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14415 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: fix invalid iterator accessJavier Bueno
An iterator was assigned end() and then it was used to access its corresponding element. Change-Id: I87246cf56cbc694dd6b4e2cabbe84a08429d2ac3 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14361 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Make StridePrefetcher use Replacement PoliciesDaniel
Previously StridePrefetcher was only able to use random replacement policy. This change allows all replacement policies to be applied to the pc table. Change-Id: I8714e71a6a4c9c31fbca49a07a456dcacd3e402c Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14360 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Add invalidation function to StrideEntryDaniel
Add invalidation function to StrideEntry so that every entry can be invalidated appropriately. Change-Id: I38c42b7d7c93d839f797d116f1d2c88572123c0e Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14359 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Make PCTable context independentDaniel
Move the unordered_map outside of the PCTable, as it belongs to the StridePrefetcher. By doing so we are moving towards a table that ressembles the ones of the Tags classes. Some functions have been moved from the prefetcher to the PCTable, as they didn't belong there. As such, they have been renamed to remove the unnecessary prefix. Change-Id: I3e54bc7dee65e1f78d96b0d548ac8345b7bd4364 Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14358 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Vectorize StridePrefetcher's entries.Daniel
Turn StridePrefetcher::PCTable::entries into a vector of vectors. Change-Id: I2a4589a76eb205910c43723638b7989eddd5ca24 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14357 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Return entry in StridePrefetcher::pcTableHit()Daniel
Return a pointer to the entry instead of returning a boolean and passing a pointer reference. As a side effect, change the name of the function to be more descriptive of the functionality. Change-Id: Iad44979e98031754c1d0857b1790c0eaf77e9765 Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14356 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-15mem-cache: Cleanup prefetchersDaniel
Prefetcher code had extra variables, dependencies that could be removed, code duplication, and missing overrides. Change-Id: I6e9fbf67a0bdab7eb591893039e088261f52d31a Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14355 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-14mem-cache: Remove Cache dependency from TagsDaniel R. Carvalho
Tags do not need to be aware of caches. Change-Id: Ib6a082b74dcd9b2f10852651634b59512732fb2a Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14296 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-14mem-cache: Move access latency calculation to CacheDaniel R. Carvalho
Access latency was not being calculated properly, as it was always assuming that for hits reads take as long as writes, and that parallel accesses would produce the same latency for read and write misses. By moving the calculation to the Cache we can use the write/ read information, reduce latency variables duplication and remove Cache dependency from Tags. The tag lookup latency is still calculated by the Tags. Change-Id: I71bc68fb5c3515b372c3bf002d61b6f048a45540 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13697 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-14mem-cache: implement a probe-based interfaceJavier Bueno
The HW Prefetcher of a cache can now listen events from their associated CPUs and from its own cache. Change-Id: I28aecd8faf8ed44be94464d84485bd1cea2efae3 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14155 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-13mem-cache: Align how we handle requests in atomic with timingNikos Nikoleris
Requests, for which a cache has already committed to respond do not perform any lookups. Previously in atomic mode the packet would pay the lookup latency while in timing it wouldn't. This patch aligns recvAtomic with recvTimingReq and removes the lookup latency from the the handling of such requests. Change-Id: I50a0631f8058e5086d94d55af0e1788a60e2883f Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14175 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-11-05mem-cache: Rename the tag class init function to tagsInit.Gabe Black
Since the tag classes are subclasses of SimObject, they inherit an init function which does generic initialization at simulation startup and which doesn't take any parameters. A new function was added which does take a parameter, and which is just for doing tag specific initialization as triggered by the base cache. These two names clashed, and clang complained that the tag local name was hiding the SimObject name (which it was). Change-Id: I399775aceaf8f1a8e2646d434facef22e6d3e7d0 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13875 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-05mem: Use Packet writing functions instead of memcpyDaniel R. Carvalho
Classes were using memcpy instead of the Packet functions created for writing to/from the packet. This allows these writes to be better checked and tracked. This also fixes a bug in MemCheckerMonitor, which was using the incorrect type for the packet pointer. Change-Id: I5bbc8a24e59464e8219bb6d54af8209e6d4ee1af Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13695 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-11-05mem-cache: Fix double block invalidationDaniel R. Carvalho
Block was being invalidated twice when not a tempBlock. Make explicit that the else case is only to be applied when handling the tempBlock, as otherwise the Tags should be taking care of the invalidation. Change-Id: Ie7603fdbe156c54e94bbdc83541b55e66f8d250f Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13895 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-26arch-arm: We add PRFM PST instruction for armyuetsu.kodama
Note current PRFM supports only PLD, but PST (prefetch for store) is also important for latency hiding. We also bug fix in disassembler to display prfop correctly. Change-Id: I9144e7233900aa2d555e1c1a6a2c2e41d837aa13 Signed-off-by: Yuetsu Kodama <yuetsu.kodama@riken.jp> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13675 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-10-22mem-cache: Move evictBlock(CacheBlk*, PacketList&) to baseDaniel R. Carvalho
Move evictBlock(CacheBlk*, PacketList&) to base cache, as it is both sub-classes implementations are equal. Change-Id: I80fbd16813bfcc4938fb01ed76abe29b3f8b3018 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13656 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-18mem-cache: Fix unused variable warning in FALRU:invalidate()Nikos Nikoleris
Change-Id: I3b902045433ca56b3e62c251158e784b5fa9e4d7 Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13600 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
2018-10-18mem: Add write coalescing and write-no-allocate to the cachesNikos Nikoleris
Enable the cache to detect contiguous writes and hold on to the MSHR long enough to allow the entire line to be written. If the whole line is written, the MSHR will be sent out as an invalidation requests, as it is part of a whole-line write, i.e. no-fetch-on-write. The cache is also able to switch to a write-no-allocate policy on the actual completion of the writes, and instead use the tempBlock and turn the write operation into a writeback. These policies are all well-known, and described in works such as Jouppi, Cache Write Policies and Performance, vol 21, no 2, ACM, 1993. Change-Id: I19792f2970b3c6798c9b2b493acdd156897284ae Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12907 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-18mem: Delay servicing an MSHR after its allocationNikos Nikoleris
An MSHR is allocated and the computed latency determines when the MSHR will be ready and can be serviced by the cache. This patch adds a function that allows changing the time that an MSHR is ready and adjusts the queue such that other MSHRs can be serviced first if they are ready. Change-Id: Ie908191fcb3c2d84d4c6f855c8b1e41ca5881bff Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12906 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-18mem: Restructure whole-line writes to simplify write mergingNikos Nikoleris
This patch changes how we deal with whole-line writes their responses. With these changes, we use the MSHR tracking to determine if a whole-line is written, and on a fill we simply handle the invalidation response, with the actual writes taking place as part of satisfying the CPU-side hit. Change-Id: I9a18e41a95db3c20b97f8bca7d95ff33d35a578b Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12905 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-18mem: Determine if an MSHR does a whole-line writeNikos Nikoleris
This patch adds support for determining whether the targets in an MSHR are 1) only writes and 2) whether these writes are effectively a whole-line write. This patch adds the necessary functions in the MSHR to allow for write coalescing in the cache. Change-Id: I2c9a9a83d2d9b506a491ba5b0b9ac1054bdb31b4 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12904 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-13mem-cache: Add missing includes in TreePLRUDaniel
Add missing includes to TreePLRU files. Change-Id: Ia1e7b2aa91eec8a30b6dccf513cca37a3058b350 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13477 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-11mem-cache: Factor ReplaceableEntry outDaniel R. Carvalho
ReplaceableEntry is referenced by many classes that do not necessarily need access to the replacement policies. Therefore, in order to allow better compilation units, we factor it out to a new file. Change-Id: I0823567bf1ca336ffcdf783682ef473e8878d7fd Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13418 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-11mem-cache: Move sector_blks to tags folderDaniel R. Carvalho
Move sector_blks.hh and sector_blks.cc to the tags folder, as its usage scope is restricted to the tags, and caches should not be aware of them. Change-Id: Ia7a71f51ec251d827872daf108c87da543a0ba57 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13417 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-11mem-cache: Rename blk.cc/hh to cache_blk.cc/hhDaniel R. Carvalho
Rename the files blk.cc and blk.hh to cache_blk.cc and cache_blk.hh to comply with the usual file-class naming rules. Change-Id: I8af45df3e4b8dd934fd9929ec914fb230cb2cb09 Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13416 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-11mem-cache: Virtualize block printDaniel R. Carvalho
Encapsulate and virtualize block print, so that relevant information can be easily printed anywhere. Change-Id: I91109c29c126755183a0fd2b4446f5335e64076b Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13415 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-10-10mem-cache: Create Tree-PLRU replacement policyDaniel R. Carvalho
Implementation of a Tree-PLRU replacement policy. It is based on the assumption that a set associative cache is used. Change-Id: I74b227e88fd6c93aab5bb2cd0e8730376db28f52 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/11106 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-10-10mem-cache: Remove CacheSet.hhDaniel R. Carvalho
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>
generated by cgit v1.2.3 (git 2.25.1) at 2025-04-11 07:41:06 +0000