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2013-02-10ruby: enable multiple clock domainsNilay Vaish
This patch allows ruby to have multiple clock domains. As I understand with this patch, controllers can have different frequencies. The entire network needs to run at a single frequency. The idea is that with in an object, time is treated in terms of cycles. But the messages that are passed from one entity to another should contain the time in Ticks. As of now, this is only true for the message buffers, but not for the links in the network. As I understand the code, all the entities in different networks (simple, garnet-fixed, garnet-flexible) should be clocked at the same frequency. Another problem is that the directory controller has to operate at the same frequency as the ruby system. This is because the memory controller does not make use of the Message Buffer, and instead implements a buffer of its own. So, it has no idea of the frequency at which the directory controller is operating and uses ruby system's frequency for scheduling events.
2013-02-10ruby: replace Time with Cycles in garnet fixed and flexibleNilay Vaish
2013-02-10ruby: replace Time with Cycles in Message classNilay Vaish
Concomitant changes are being committed as well, including the io operator<< for the Cycles class.
2013-02-10ruby: replaces Time with Cycles in many placesNilay Vaish
The patch started of with replacing Time with Cycles in the Consumer class. But to get ruby to compile, the rest of the changes had to be carried out. Subsequent patches will further this process, till we completely replace Time with Cycles.
2013-02-10ruby: modifies histogram add() functionNilay Vaish
This patch modifies the Histogram class' add() function so that it can add linear histograms as well. The function assumes that the left end point of the ranges of the two histograms are the same. It also assumes that when the ranges of the two histogram are changed to accomodate an element not in the range, the factor used in changing the range is same for both the histograms. This function is then used in removing one of the calls to the global profiler*. The histograms for recording the delays incurred in processing different requests are now maintained by the controllers. The profiler adds these histograms when it needs to print the stats.
2013-02-10ruby: record fully busy cycle with in the controllerNilay Vaish
This patch does several things. First, the counter for fully busy cycles for a controller is now kept with in the controller, instead of being part of the profiler. Second, the topology class no longer keeps an array of controllers which was only used for printing stats. Instead, ruby system will now ask each controller to print the stats. Thirdly, the statistical variable for recording how many different types were created is being moved in to the controller from the profiler. Note that for printing, the profiler will collate results from different controllers.
2013-01-17ruby: remove calls to g_system_ptr->getTime()Nilay Vaish
This patch further removes calls to g_system_ptr->getTime() where ever other clocked objects are available for providing current time.
2013-01-14Ruby: remove reference to g_system_ptr from class MessageNilay Vaish
This patch was initiated so as to remove reference to g_system_ptr, the pointer to Ruby System that is used for getting the current time. That simple change actual requires changing a lot many things in slicc and garnet. All these changes are related to how time is handled. In most of the places, g_system_ptr has been replaced by another clock object. The changes have been done under the assumption that all the components in the memory system are on the same clock frequency, but the actual clocks might be distributed.
2013-01-14Ruby: use ClockedObject in Consumer classNilay Vaish
Many Ruby structures inherit from the Consumer, which is used for scheduling events. The Consumer used to relay on an Event Manager for scheduling events and on g_system_ptr for time. With this patch, the Consumer will now use a ClockedObject to schedule events and to query for current time. This resulted in several structures being converted from SimObjects to ClockedObjects. Also, the MessageBuffer class now requires a pointer to a ClockedObject so as to query for time.
2013-01-07ruby: Fix missing cxx_header in SwitchAndreas Hansson
This patch addresses a warning related to the swig interface generation for the Switch class. The cxx_header is now specified correctly, and the header in question has got a few includes added to make it all compile.
2012-11-16sim: have a curTick per eventqNilay Vaish
This patch adds a _curTick variable to an eventq. This variable is updated whenever an event is serviced in function serviceOne(), or all events upto a particular time are processed in function serviceEvents(). This change helps when there are eventqs that do not make use of curTick for scheduling events.
2012-11-10ruby: support functional accesses in garnet flexible networkNilay Vaish
2012-11-02sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfacesAndreas Sandberg
When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is used anywhere in the object hierarchy. This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do not use it.
2012-10-15ruby: improved support for functional accessesNilay Vaish
This patch adds support to different entities in the ruby memory system for more reliable functional read/write accesses. Only the simple network has been augmented as of now. Later on Garnet will also support functional accesses. The patch adds functional access code to all the different types of messages that protocols can send around. These messages are functionally accessed by going through the buffers maintained by the network entities. The patch also rectifies some of the bugs found in coherence protocols while testing the patch. With this patch applied, functional writes always succeed. But functional reads can still fail.
2012-10-02ruby: makes some members non-staticNilay Vaish
This patch makes some of the members (profiler, network, memory vector) of ruby system non-static.
2012-10-02ruby: changes to simple networkNilay Vaish
This patch makes the Switch structure inherit from BasicRouter, as is done in two other networks.
2012-09-18ruby: avoid using g_system_ptr for event schedulingNilay Vaish
This patch removes the use of g_system_ptr for event scheduling. Each consumer object now needs to specify upfront an EventManager object it would use for scheduling events. This makes the ruby memory system more amenable for a multi-threaded simulation.
2012-08-27Ruby: Remove RubyEventQueueNilay Vaish
This patch removes RubyEventQueue. Consumer objects now rely on RubySystem or themselves for scheduling events.
2012-08-10Ruby: Clean up topology changesJason Power
This patch moves instantiateTopology into Ruby.py and removes the mem/ruby/network/topologies directory. It also adds some extra inheritance to the topologies to clean up some issues in the existing topologies.
2012-07-12Ruby: remove config information from ruby.statsNilay Vaish
This patch removes printConfig() functions from all structures in Ruby. Most of the information is already part of config.ini, and where ever it is not, it would become in due course.
2012-07-12Ruby: remove some unused stuff from SLICC filesNilay Vaish
2012-07-10# User Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>Brad Beckmann
ruby: fixed fatal print statement
2012-07-10ruby: changes how Topologies are createdBrad Beckmann
Instead of just passing a list of controllers to the makeTopology function in src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/<Topo>.py we pass in a function pointer which knows how to make the topology, possibly with some extra state set in the configs/ruby/<protocol>.py file. Thus, we can move all of the files from network/topologies to configs/topologies. A new class BaseTopology is added which all topologies in configs/topologies must inheirit from and follow its API. --HG-- rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Crossbar.py => configs/topologies/Crossbar.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Mesh.py => configs/topologies/Mesh.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py => configs/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Pt2Pt.py => configs/topologies/Pt2Pt.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Torus.py => configs/topologies/Torus.py
2012-04-28Garnet: Correct computation of link utilizationNilay Vaish
The computation for link utilization was incorrect for the flexible network. The utilization was being divided twice by the total time.
2012-04-14clang/gcc: Fix compilation issues with clang 3.0 and gcc 4.6Andreas Hansson
This patch addresses a number of minor issues that cause problems when compiling with clang >= 3.0 and gcc >= 4.6. Most importantly, it avoids using the deprecated ext/hash_map and instead uses unordered_map (and similarly so for the hash_set). To make use of the new STL containers, g++ and clang has to be invoked with "-std=c++0x", and this is now added for all gcc versions >= 4.6, and for clang >= 3.0. For gcc >= 4.3 and <= 4.5 and clang <= 3.0 we use the tr1 unordered_map to avoid the deprecation warning. The addition of c++0x in turn causes a few problems, as the compiler is more stringent and adds a number of new warnings. Below, the most important issues are enumerated: 1) the use of namespaces is more strict, e.g. for isnan, and all headers opening the entire namespace std are now fixed. 2) another other issue caused by the more stringent compiler is the narrowing of the embedded python, which used to be a char array, and is now unsigned char since there were values larger than 128. 3) a particularly odd issue that arose with the new c++0x behaviour is found in range.hh, where the operator< causes gcc to complain about the template type parsing (the "<" is interpreted as the beginning of a template argument), and the problem seems to be related to the begin/end members introduced for the range-type iteration, which is a new feature in c++11. As a minor update, this patch also fixes the build flags for the clang debug target that used to be shared with gcc and incorrectly use "-ggdb".
2012-03-22Scons: Remove Werror=False in SConscript filesAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the overriding of "-Werror" in a handful of cases. The code compiles with gcc 4.6.3 and clang 3.0 without any warnings, and thus without any errors. There are no functional changes introduced by this patch. In the future, rather than ypassing "-Werror", address the warnings.
2012-03-19Garnet: Stats at vnet granularity + code cleanupTushar Krishna
This patch (1) Moves redundant code from fixed and flexible networks to BaseGarnetNetwork. (2) Prints network stats at vnet granularity.
2012-01-31clang: Enable compiling gem5 using clang 2.9 and 3.0Koan-Sin Tan
This patch adds the necessary flags to the SConstruct and SConscript files for compiling using clang 2.9 and later (on Ubuntu et al and OSX XCode 4.2), and also cleans up a bunch of compiler warnings found by clang. Most of the warnings are related to hidden virtual functions, comparisons with unsigneds >= 0, and if-statements with empty bodies. A number of mismatches between struct and class are also fixed. clang 2.8 is not working as it has problems with class names that occur in multiple namespaces (e.g. Statistics in kernel_stats.hh). clang has a bug (http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7247) which causes confusion between the container std::set and the function Packet::set, and this is currently addressed by not including the entire namespace std, but rather selecting e.g. "using std::vector" in the appropriate places.
2011-12-31Ruby: Shuffle some of the included filesNilay Vaish
This patch adds and removes included files from some of the files so as to organize remove some false dependencies and include some files directly instead of transitively. --HG-- extra : rebase_source : 09b482ee9ae00b3a204ace0c63550bc3ca220134
2011-11-23Topology: bug fix in external link initializationTushar Krishna
--HG-- extra : rebase_source : c226cd1e5e5ed4d4c64fa9427de4905bd8335e34
2011-11-04GARNET: adding a fault model for resilient on-chip network research.Tushar Krishna
This patch adds a fault model, which provides the probability of a number of architectural faults in the interconnection network (e.g., data corruption, misrouting). These probabilities can be used to realistically inject faults in GARNET and faithfully evaluate the effectiveness of novel resilient NoC architectures.
2011-11-03Ruby: Remove some unused typedefsNilay Vaish
This patch removes some of the unused typedefs. It also moves some of the typedefs from Global.hh to TypeDefines.hh. The patch also eliminates the file NodeID.hh.
2011-10-31GCC: Get everything working with gcc 4.6.1.Gabe Black
And by "everything" I mean all the quick regressions.
2011-08-29Ruby: Remove some unused codeNilay Vaish
2011-08-08BuildEnv: Eliminate RUBY as build environment variableNilay Vaish
This patch replaces RUBY with PROTOCOL in all the SConscript files as the environment variable that decides whether or not certain components of the simulator are compiled.
2011-08-03Ruby: Remove files and includes not in useNilay Vaish
2011-06-30Ruby: Add support for functional accessesBrad Beckmann ext:(%2C%20Nilay%20Vaish%20%3Cnilay%40cs.wisc.edu%3E)
This patch rpovides functional access support in Ruby. Currently only the M5Port of RubyPort supports functional accesses. The support for functional through the PioPort will be added as a separate patch.
2011-06-02copyright: clean up copyright blocksNathan Binkert
2011-05-31orion: bug fix in link power, and some reorgTushar Krishna
2011-05-31garnet: added network ptr to links to be used by orionTushar Krishna
2011-05-23config: tweak ruby configs to clean up hierarchySteve Reinhardt
Re-enabling implicit parenting (see previous patch) causes current Ruby config scripts to create some strange hierarchies and generate several warnings. This patch makes three general changes to address these issues. 1. The order of object creation in the ruby config files makes the L1 caches children of the sequencer rather than the controller; these config ciles are rewritten to assign the L1 caches to the controller first. 2. The assignment of the sequencer list to system.ruby.cpu_ruby_ports causes the sequencers to be children of system.ruby, generating warnings because they are already parented to their respective controllers. Changing this attribute to _cpu_ruby_ports fixes this because the leading underscore means this is now treated as a plain Python attribute rather than a child assignment. As a result, the configuration hierarchy changes such that, e.g., system.ruby.cpu_ruby_ports0 becomes system.l1_cntrl0.sequencer. 3. In the topology classes, the routers become children of some random internal link node rather than direct children of the topology. The topology classes are rewritten to assign the routers to the topology object first.
2011-05-21garnet: use vnet_type from protocol to decide buffer depthsTushar Krishna
The virtual channels within "response" vnets are made buffers_per_data_vc deep (default=4), while virtual channels within other vnets are made buffers_per_ctrl_vc deep (default = 1). This is for accurate power estimates.
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.
2011-05-18garnet: rename and rearrange config parameters.Tushar Krishna
Renamed (message) class to vnet for consistency with rest of ruby. Moved some parameters specific to fixed/flexible garnet networks into their corresponding py files.
2011-05-07network: added Torus and Pt2Pt topologiesTushar Krishna
2011-05-02ruby: dbg: use system ticks instead of cyclesKorey Sewell
2011-04-28network: set the ExtLink bw to 16 bytesBrad Beckmann
Therefore all links by default are 16 bytes wide and thus work with Garnet's uniform link bandwidth assumption.
2011-04-28garnet: removed flit_width from RoutersBrad Beckmann
2011-04-28network: adjusted default endpoint bandwidthBrad Beckmann
The simple network's endpoint bandwidth value is used to adjust the overall bandwidth of the network. Specifically, the ration between endpoint bandwidth and the MESSAGE_SIZE_MULTIPLIER determines the increase. By setting the value to 1000, that means the bandwdith factor specified in the links translates to the link bandwidth in bytes. Previously, it was increasing that value by 10. This patch will likely require a reset of the ruby regression tester stats.
2011-04-28network: removed the unused network-wide latency paramBrad Beckmann