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2016-10-06ruby: rename ALPHA_Network_test protocol to Garnet_standalone.Tushar Krishna
Over the past 6 years, we realized that the protocol is essentially used to run the garnet network in a standalone manner, and feed standard synthetic traffic patterns through it.
2015-07-20ruby: slicc: have a static MachineTypeTony Gutierrez
This patch is imported from reviewboard patch 2551 by Nilay. This patch moves from a dynamically defined MachineType to a statically defined one. The need for this patch was felt since a dynamically defined type prevents us from having types for which no machine definition may exist. The following changes have been made: i. each machine definition now uses a type from the MachineType enumeration instead of any random identifier. This required changing the grammar and the *.sm files. ii. MachineType enumeration defined statically in RubySlicc_Exports.sm. * * * normal protocol fixes for nilay's parser machine type fix
2015-09-16ruby: message buffer, timer table: significant changesNilay Vaish
This patch changes MessageBuffer and TimerTable, two structures used for buffering messages by components in ruby. These structures would no longer maintain pointers to clock objects. Functions in these structures have been changed to take as input current time in Tick. Similarly, these structures will not operate on Cycle valued latencies for different operations. The corresponding functions would need to be provided with these latencies by components invoking the relevant functions. These latencies should also be in Ticks. I felt the need for these changes while trying to speed up ruby. The ultimate aim is to eliminate Consumer class and replace it with an EventManager object in the MessageBuffer and TimerTable classes. This object would be used for scheduling events. The event itself would contain information on the object and function to be invoked. In hindsight, it seems I should have done this while I was moving away from use of a single global clock in the memory system. That change led to introduction of clock objects that replaced the global clock object. It never crossed my mind that having clock object pointers is not a good design. And now I really don't like the fact that we have separate consumer, receiver and sender pointers in message buffers.
2015-08-14ruby: replace Address by AddrNilay Vaish
This patch eliminates the type Address defined by the ruby memory system. This memory system would now use the type Addr that is in use by the rest of the system.
2015-08-14ruby: rename variables Addr to addrNilay Vaish
Avoid clash between type Addr and variable name Addr.
2015-08-14ruby: Protocol changes for SimObject MessageBuffersJoel Hestness
2014-11-06ruby: coherence protocols: remove data block from dirctory entryNilay Vaish
This patch removes the data block present in the directory entry structure of each protocol in gem5's mainline. Firstly, this is required for moving towards common set of memory controllers for classic and ruby memory systems. Secondly, the data block was being misused in several places. It was being used for having free access to the physical memory instead of calling on the memory controller. From now on, the directory controller will not have a direct visibility into the physical memory. The Memory Vector object now resides in the Memory Controller class. This also means that some significant changes are being made to the functional accesses in ruby.
2014-09-01ruby: message buffers: significant changesNilay Vaish
This patch is the final patch in a series of patches. The aim of the series is to make ruby more configurable than it was. More specifically, the connections between controllers are not at all possible (unless one is ready to make significant changes to the coherence protocol). Moreover the buffers themselves are magically connected to the network inside the slicc code. These connections are not part of the configuration file. This patch makes changes so that these connections will now be made in the python configuration files associated with the protocols. This requires each state machine to expose the message buffers it uses for input and output. So, the patch makes these buffers configurable members of the machines. The patch drops the slicc code that usd to connect these buffers to the network. Now these buffers are exposed to the python configuration system as Master and Slave ports. In the configuration files, any master port can be connected any slave port. The file pyobject.cc has been modified to take care of allocating the actual message buffer. This is inline with how other port connections work.
2013-06-18ruby: restrict Address to being a type and not a variable nameLena Olson
Change all occurrances of Address as a variable name to instead use Addr. Address is an allowed name in slicc even when Address is also being used as a type, leading to declarations of "Address Address". While this works, it prevents adding another field of type Address because the compiler then thinks Address is a variable name, not type. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2011-07-03Network_test: Conform it with functional access changes in RubyNilay Vaish
Addition of functional access support to Ruby necessitated some changes to the way coherence protocols are written. I had forgotten to update the Network_test protocol. This patch makes those updates.
2011-06-08Ruby: Correctly set access permissions for directory entriesNilay Vaish
The access permissions for the directory entries are not being set correctly. This is because pointers are not used for handling directory entries. function. get and set functions for access permissions have been added to the Controller state machine. The changePermission() function provided by the AbstractEntry and AbstractCacheEntry classes has been exposed to SLICC code once again. The set_permission() functionality has been removed. NOTE: Each protocol will have to define these get and set functions in order to compile successfully.
2011-05-18slicc: added vnet_type field to identify response vnets from othersTushar Krishna
Identifying response vnets versus other vnets will allow garnet to determine which vnets will carry data packets, and which will carry ctrl packets, and use appropriate buffer sizes (since data packets are larger than ctrl packets). This in turn allows the orion power model to accurately estimate buffer power.
2011-03-21This patch adds the network tester for simple and garnet networks.Tushar Krishna
The tester code is in testers/networktest. The tester can be invoked by configs/example/ruby_network_test.py. A dummy coherence protocol called Network_test is also addded for network-only simulations and testing. The protocol takes in messages from the tester and just pushes them into the network in the appropriate vnet, without storing any state.