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2014-01-10ruby: move all statistics to stats.txt, eliminate ruby.statsNilay Vaish
2014-01-04ruby: add a three level MESI protocol.Nilay Vaish
The first two levels (L0, L1) are private to the core, the third level (L2)is possibly shared. The protocol supports clustered designs. For example, one can have two sets of two cores. Each core has an L0 and L1 cache. There are two L2 controllers where each set accesses only one of the L2 controllers.
2014-01-04ruby: add support for clustersNilay Vaish
A cluster over here means a set of controllers that can be accessed only by a certain set of cores. For example, consider a two level hierarchy. Assume there are 4 L1 controllers (private) and 2 L2 controllers. We can have two different hierarchies here: a. the address space is partitioned between the two L2 controllers. Each L1 controller accesses both the L2 controllers. In this case, each L1 controller is a cluster initself. b. both the L2 controllers can cache any address. An L1 controller has access to only one of the L2 controllers. In this case, each L2 controller along with the L1 controllers that access it, form a cluster. This patch allows for each controller to have a cluster ID, which is 0 by default. By setting the cluster ID properly, one can instantiate hierarchies with clusters. Note that the coherence protocol might have to be changed as well.
2014-01-04ruby: some small changesNilay Vaish
2013-12-20ruby: slicc: replace max_in_port_rank with number of inportsNilay Vaish
This patch replaces max_in_port_rank with the number of inports. The use of max_in_port_rank was causing spurious re-builds and incorrect initialization of variables in ruby related regression tests. This was due to the variable value being used across threads while compiling when it was not meant to be. Since the number of inports is state machine specific value, this problem should get solved.
2013-12-20ruby: declare variables to be unsigned in Address.hhNilay Vaish
2013-10-30ruby: Fixed a deadlock when restoring a checkpoint with garnetEmilio Castillo
This patch fixes a problem where in Garnet, the enqueue time in the VCallocator and the SWallocator which is of type Cycles was being stored inside a variable with int type. This lead to a known problem restoring checkpoints with garnet & the fixed pipeline enabled. That value was really big and didn't fit in the variable overflowing it, therefore some conditions on the VC allocation stage & the SW allocation stage were not met and the packets didn't advance through the network, leading to a deadlock panic right after the checkpoint was restored. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2013-10-15ruby: eliminate non-determinism from ruby.stats outputSteve Reinhardt
Get rid of non-deterministic "stats" in ruby.stats output such as time & date of run, elapsed & CPU time used, and memory usage. These values cause spurious miscomparisons when looking at output diffs (though they don't affect regressions, since the regressions pass/fail status currently ignores ruby.stats entirely). Most of this information is already captured in other places (time & date in stdout, elapsed time & mem usage in stats.txt), where the regression script is smart enough to filter it out. It seems easier to get rid of the redundant output rather than teaching the regression tester to ignore the same information in two different places.
2013-09-11ruby: Fix Topology throttle connectionsJoel Hestness
The Topology source sets up input and output buffers for each of the external nodes of a topology by indexing on Ruby's generated controller unique IDs. These unique IDs are found by adding the MachineType_base_number to the version number of each controller (see any generated *_Controller.cc - init() calls getToNetQueue and getFromNetQueue using m_version + base). However, the Topology object used the cntrl_id - which is required to be unique across all controllers - to index the controllers list as they are being connected to their input and output buffers. If the cntrl_ids did not match the Ruby unique ID, the throttles end up connected to incorrectly indexed nodes in the network, resulting in packets traversing incorrect network paths. This patch fixes the Topology indexing scheme by using the Ruby unique ID to match that of the SimpleNetwork buffer vectors.
2013-09-11ruby: Statically allocate stats in SimpleNetwork, Switch, ThrottleJoel Hestness
The previous changeset (9863:9483739f83ee) used STL vector containers to dynamically allocate stats in the Ruby SimpleNetwork, Switch and Throttle. For gcc versions before at least 4.6.3, this causes the standard vector allocator to call Stats copy constructors (a no-no, since stats should be allocated in the body of each SimObject instance). Since the size of these stats arrays is known at compile time (NOTE: after code generation), this patch changes their allocation to be static rather than using an STL vector.
2013-09-06ruby: network: convert to gem5 style statsNilay Vaish
2013-09-06ruby: profiler: removes function resourceUsage()Nilay Vaish
2013-09-06ruby: remove undefined message size typeNilay Vaish
This message size type does not work well with one of the statistical variables. It also seems unnecessary.
2013-09-06ruby: network: removes reset functionalityNilay Vaish
2013-09-06ruby: network: shorten variable namesNilay Vaish
2013-09-06ruby: converts sparse memory stats to gem5 styleNilay Vaish
2013-09-04arch: Resurrect the NOISA build target and rename it NULLAndreas Hansson
This patch makes it possible to once again build gem5 without any ISA. The main purpose is to enable work around the interconnect and memory system without having to build any CPU models or device models. The regress script is updated to include the NULL ISA target. Currently no regressions make use of it, but all the testers could (and perhaps should) transition to it. --HG-- rename : build_opts/NOISA => build_opts/NULL rename : src/arch/noisa/SConsopts => src/arch/null/SConsopts rename : src/arch/noisa/cpu_dummy.hh => src/arch/null/cpu_dummy.hh rename : src/cpu/intr_control.cc => src/cpu/intr_control_noisa.cc
2013-08-07ruby: slicc: move some code to AbstractControllerNilay Vaish
Some of the code in StateMachine.py file is added to all the controllers and is independent of the controller definition. This code is being moved to the AbstractController class which is the parent class of all controllers.
2013-07-18mem: Set the cache line size on a system levelAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the notion of a peer block size and instead sets the cache line size on the system level. Previously the size was set per cache, and communicated through the interconnect. There were plenty checks to ensure that everyone had the same size specified, and these checks are now removed. Another benefit that is not yet harnessed is that the cache line size is now known at construction time, rather than after the port binding. Hence, the block size can be locally stored and does not have to be queried every time it is used. A follow-on patch updates the configuration scripts accordingly.
2013-06-28ruby: network: remove reconfiguration codeNilay Vaish
This code seems not to be of any use now. There is no path in the simulator that allows for reconfiguring the network. A better approach would be to take a checkpoint and start the simulation from the checkpoint with the new configuration.
2013-06-27sim: Add the notion of clock domains to all ClockedObjectsAkash Bagdia
This patch adds the notion of source- and derived-clock domains to the ClockedObjects. As such, all clock information is moved to the clock domain, and the ClockedObjects are grouped into domains. The clock domains are either source domains, with a specific clock period, or derived domains that have a parent domain and a divider (potentially chained). For piece of logic that runs at a derived clock (a ratio of the clock its parent is running at) the necessary derived clock domain is created from its corresponding parent clock domain. For now, the derived clock domain only supports a divider, thus ensuring a lower speed compared to its parent. Multiplier functionality implies a PLL logic that has not been modelled yet (create a separate clock instead). The clock domains should be used as a mechanism to provide a controllable clock source that affects clock for every clocked object lying beneath it. The clock of the domain can (in a future patch) be controlled by a handler responsible for dynamic frequency scaling of the respective clock domains. All the config scripts have been retro-fitted with clock domains. For the System a default SrcClockDomain is created. For CPUs that run at a different speed than the system, there is a seperate clock domain created. This domain incorporates the CPU and the associated caches. As before, Ruby runs under its own clock domain. The clock period of all domains are pre-computed, such that no virtual functions or multiplications are needed when calling clockPeriod. Instead, the clock period is pre-computed when any changes occur. For this to be possible, each clock domain tracks its children.
2013-06-27config: Remove redundant explicit setting of default clocksAkash Bagdia
This patch removes the explicit setting of the clock period for certain instances of CoherentBus, NonCoherentBus and IOCache where the specified clock is same as the default value of the system clock. As all the values used are the defaults, there are no performance changes. There are similar cases where the toL2Bus is set to use the parent CPU clock which is already the default behaviour. The main motivation for these simplifications is to ease the introduction of clock domains.
2013-06-25ruby: profiler: lots of inter-related changesNilay Vaish
The patch started of with removing the global variables from the profiler for profiling the miss latency of requests made to the cache. The corrresponding histograms have been moved to the Sequencer. These are combined together when the histograms are printed. Separate histograms are now maintained for tracking latency of all requests together, of hits only and of misses only. A particular set of histograms used to use the type GenericMachineType defined in one of the protocol files. This patch removes this type. Now, everything that relied on this type would use MachineType instead. To do this, SLICC has been changed so that multiple machine types can be declared by a controller in its preamble.
2013-06-24ruby: remove the three files related to profilingNilay Vaish
This patch removes the following three files: RubySlicc_Profiler.sm, RubySlicc_Profiler_interface.cc and RubySlicc_Profiler_interface.hh. Only one function prototyped in the file RubySlicc_Profiler.sm. Rest of the code appearing in any of these files is not in use. Therefore, these files are being removed. That one single function, profileMsgDelay(), is being moved to the protocol files where it is in use. If we need any of these deleted functions, I think the right way to make them visible is to have the AbstractController class in a .sm and let the controller state machine inherit from this class. The AbstractController class can then have the prototypes of these profiling functions in its definition.
2013-06-24ruby: MessageBuffer: Remove unused m_size variableJoel Hestness ext:(%2C%20Nilay%20Vaish%20%3Cnilay%40cs.wisc.edu%3E)
The m_size variable attempted to track m_prio_heap.size(), but it did so incorrectly due to the functions reanalyzeMessages and reanalyzeAllMessages(). Since this variable is intended to track m_prio_heap.size(), we can simply replace instances where m_size is referenced with m_prio_heap.size(), which has the added bonus of removing the need for m_size. Note: This patch also removes an extraneous DPRINTF format string designator from reanalyzeAllMessages() Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
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>
2013-06-09ruby: remove several unused variables in ProfilerNilay Vaish
This patch removes per processor cycle count, histogram for filter stats, histogram for multicasts, histogram for prefetch wait, some function prototypes that do not have definitions.
2013-06-09ruby: remove periodic event from ProfilerNilay Vaish
The Profiler class does not need an event for dumping statistics periodically. This is because there is a method for dumping statistics for all the sim objects periodically. Since Ruby is a sim object, its statistics are also included.
2013-06-09ruby: stats: use gem5's stats for cache and memory controllersNilay Vaish
This moves event and transition count statistics for cache controllers to gem5's statistics. It does the same for the statistics associated with the memory controller in ruby. All the cache/directory/dma controllers individually collect the event and transition counts. A callback function, collateStats(), has been added that is invoked on the controller version 0 of each controller class. This function adds all the individual controller statistics to a vector variables. All the code for registering the statistical variables and collating them is generated by SLICC. The patch removes the files *_Profiler.{cc,hh} and *_ProfileDumper.{cc,hh} which were earlier used for collecting and dumping statistics respectively.
2013-06-09ruby: remove undefined functions in Address classNilay Vaish
2013-05-21ruby: add stats to .sm files, remove cache profilerNilay Vaish ext:(%2C%20Malek%20Musleh%20%3Cmalek.musleh%40gmail.com%3E)
This patch changes the way cache statistics are collected in ruby. As of now, there is separate entity called CacheProfiler which holds statistical variables for caches. The CacheMemory class defines different functions for accessing the CacheProfiler. These functions are then invoked in the .sm files. I find this approach opaque and prone to error. Secondly, we probably should not be paying the cost of a function call for recording statistics. Instead, this patch allows for accessing statistical variables in the .sm files. The collection would become transparent. Secondly, it would happen in place, so no function calls. The patch also removes the CacheProfiler class. --HG-- rename : src/mem/slicc/ast/InfixOperatorExprAST.py => src/mem/slicc/ast/OperatorExprAST.py
2013-04-23ruby: patch checkpoint restore with garnetNilay Vaish
Due to recent changes to clocking system in Ruby and the way Ruby restores state from a checkpoint, garnet was failing to run from a checkpointed state. The problem is that Ruby resets the time to zero while warming up the caches. If any component records a local copy of the time (read calls curCycle()) before the simulation has started, then that component will not operate until that time is reached. In the context of this particular patch, the Garnet Network class calls curCycle() at multiple places. Any non-operational component can block in requests in the memory system, which the system interprets as a deadlock. This patch makes changes so that Garnet can successfully run from checkpointed state. It adds a globally visible time at which the actual execution started. This time is initialized in RubySystem::startup() function. This variable is only meant for components with in Ruby. This replaces the private variable that was maintained within Garnet since it is not possible to figure out the correct time when the value of this variable can be set. The patch also does away with all cases where curCycle() is called with in some Ruby component before the system has actually started executing. This is required due to the quirky manner in which ruby restores from a checkpoint.
2013-04-22mem: Replace check with panic where inhibited should not happenAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the SimpleTimingPort and RubyPort to panic on inhibited requests as this should never happen in either of the cases. The SimpleTimingPort is only used for the I/O devices PIO port and the DMA devices config port and should thus never see an inhibited request. Similarly, the SimpleTimingPort is also used for the MessagePort in x86, and there should also not be any cases where the port sees an inhibited request.
2013-04-22sim: separate nextCycle() and clockEdge() in clockedObjectsDam Sunwoo
Previously, nextCycle() could return the *current* cycle if the current tick was already aligned with the clock edge. This behavior is not only confusing (not quite what the function name implies), but also caused problems in the drainResume() function. When exiting/re-entering the sim loop (e.g., to take checkpoints), the CPUs will drain and resume. Due to the previous behavior of nextCycle(), the CPU tick events were being rescheduled in the same ticks that were already processed before draining. This caused divergence from runs that did not exit/re-entered the sim loop. (Initially a cycle difference, but a significant impact later on.) This patch separates out the two behaviors (nextCycle() and clockEdge()), uses nextCycle() in drainResume, and uses clockEdge() everywhere else. Nothing (other than name) should change except for the drainResume timing.
2013-04-09Ruby: Fix RubyPort evict packet memory leakJoel Hestness
When using the o3 or inorder CPUs with many Ruby protocols, the caches may need to forward invalidations to the CPUs. The RubyPort was instantiating a packet to be sent to the CPUs to signal the eviction, but the packets were not being freed by the CPUs. Consistent with the classic memory model, stack allocate the packet and heap allocate the request so on ruby_eviction_callback() completion, the packet deconstructor is called, and deletes the request (*Note: stack allocating the request causes double deletion, since it will be deleted in the packet destructor). This results in the least memory allocations without memory errors.
2013-04-09Ruby: Delete packet requests during warmupJoel Hestness
When warming up caches in Ruby, the CacheRecorder sends fetch requests into Ruby Sequencers with packet types that require responses. Since responses are never generated for these CacheRecorder requests, the requests are not deleted in the packet destructor called from the Ruby hit callback. Free the request.
2013-04-09Ruby: More descriptive message buffer connection fatalJason Power
When connecting message buffers between Ruby controllers, it is easy to mistakenly connect multiple controllers to the same message buffer. This patch prints a more descriptive fatal message than the previous assert statement in order to facilitate easier debugging.
2013-04-07Ruby System, Cache Recorder: Use delete [] for trace varsJoel Hestness
The cache trace variables are array allocated uint8_t* in the RubySystem and the Ruby CacheRecorder, but the code used delete to free the memory, resulting in Valgrind memory errors. Change these deletes to delete [] to get rid of the errors.
2013-03-22ruby: message buffer: correct previous errorsNilay Vaish
A recent set of patches added support for multiple clock domains to ruby. I had made some errors while writing those patches. The sender was using the receiver side clock while enqueuing a message in the buffer. Those errors became visible while creating (or restoring from) checkpoints. The errors also become visible when a multi eventq scenario occurs.
2013-03-22ruby: message buffer: remove _ptr from some variablesNilay Vaish
The names were getting too long.
2013-03-22ruby: message buffer node: used Tick in place of CyclesNilay Vaish
The message buffer node used to keep time in terms of Cycles. Since the sender and the receiver can have different clock periods, storing node time in cycles requires some conversion. Instead store the time directly in Ticks.
2013-03-22ruby: consumer: avoid using receiver side clockNilay Vaish
A set of patches was recently committed to allow multiple clock domains in ruby. In those patches, I had inadvertently made an incorrect use of the clocks. Suppose object A needs to schedule an event on object B. It was possible that A accesses B's clock to schedule the event. This is not possible in actual system. Hence, changes are being to the Consumer class so as to avoid such happenings. Note that in a multi eventq simulation, this can possibly lead to an incorrect simulation. There are two functions in the Consumer class that are used for scheduling events. The first function takes in the relative delay over the current time as the argument and adds the current time to it for scheduling the event. The second function takes in the absolute time (in ticks) for scheduling the event. The first function is now being moved to protected section of the class so that only objects of the derived classes can use it. All other objects will have to specify absolute time while scheduling an event for some consumer.
2013-03-22ruby: remove unsued profile functionsNilay Vaish
2013-03-22ruby: keep histogram of outstanding requests in seqNilay Vaish
The histogram for tracking outstanding counts per cycle is maintained in the profiler. For a parallel implementation of the memory system, we need that this histogram is maintained locally. Hence it will now be kept in the sequencer itself. The resulting histograms will be merged when the stats are printed.
2013-03-22ruby: move stall and wakeup functions to AbstractControllerNilay Vaish
These functions are currently implemented in one of the files related to Slicc. Since these are purely C++ functions, they are better suited to be in the base class.
2013-03-22ruby: connect two controllers using only message buffersNilay Vaish
This patch modifies ruby so that two controllers can be connected to each other with only message buffers in between. Before this patch, all the controllers had to be connected to the network for them to communicate with each other. With this patch, one can have protocols where a controller is not connected to the network, but communicates with another controller through a message buffer.
2013-03-22ruby: convert Topology to regular classNilay Vaish
The Topology class in Ruby does not need to inherit from SimObject class. This patch turns it into a regular class. The topology object is now created in the constructor of the Network class. All the parameters for the topology class have been moved to the network class.
2013-03-22ruby: network: move routers from topology to networkNilay Vaish
2013-03-15ruby: set: corrects csprintf() call introduced by 7d95b650c9b6Nilay Vaish
2013-03-07ruby: Fix gcc 4.8 maybe-uninitialized compilation errorAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes the one-and-only gcc 4.8 compilation error, being a warning about "maybe uninitialized" in Orion.