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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2013-07-18	mem: Set the cache line size on a system level	Andreas 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.
2013-05-30	mem: Add bytes per activate DRAM controller stat	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds a histogram to track how many bytes are accessed in an open row before it is closed. This metric is useful in characterising a workload and the efficiency of the DRAM scheduler. For example, a DDR3-1600 device requires 44 cycles (tRC) before it can activate another row in the same bank. For a x32 interface (8 bytes per cycle) that means 8 x 44 = 352 bytes must be transferred to hide the preparation time.
2013-05-30	mem: Add static latency to the DRAM controller	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds a frontend and backend static latency to the DRAM controller by delaying the responses. Two parameters expressing the frontend and backend contributions in absolute time are added to the controller, and the appropriate latency is added to the responses when adding them to the (infinite) queued port for sending. For writes and reads that hit in the write buffer, only the frontend latency is added. For reads that are serviced by the DRAM, the static latency is the sum of the pipeline latencies of the entire frontend, backend and PHY. The default values are chosen based on having roughly 10 pipeline stages in total at 500 MHz. In the future, it would be sensible to make the controller use its clock and convert these latencies (and a few of the DRAM timings) to cycles.
2013-04-22	mem: Address mapping with fine-grained channel interleaving	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds an address mapping scheme where the channel interleaving takes place on a cache line granularity. It is similar to the existing RaBaChCo that interleaves on a DRAM page, but should give higher performance when there is less locality in the address stream.
2013-04-22	mem: More descriptive enum names for address mapping	Andreas Hansson
	This patch changes the slightly ambigious names used for the address mapping scheme to be more descriptive, and actually spell out what they do. With this patch we also open up for adding more flavours of open- and close-type mappings, i.e. interleaving across channels with the open map.
2013-03-18	mem: Fix missing delete of packet in DRAM access	Andreas Hansson
	This patch fixes a memory leak caused by not deleting packets that require no response.
2013-03-01	mem: Add check if SimpleDRAM nextReqEvent is scheduled	Andreas Hansson
	This check covers a case where a retry is called from the SimpleDRAM causing a new request to appear before the DRAM itself schedules a nextReqEvent. By adding this check, the event is not scheduled twice.
2013-03-01	mem: SimpleDRAM variable naming and whitespace fixes	Andreas Hansson
	This patch fixes a number of small cosmetic issues in the SimpleDRAM module. The most important change is to move the accounting of received packets to after the check is made if the packet should be retried or not. Thus, packets are only counted if they are actually accepted.
2013-03-01	mem: Add support for multi-channel DRAM configurations	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds support for multi-channel instances of the DRAM controller model by stripping away the channel bits in the address decoding. The patch relies on the availiability of address interleaving and, at this time, it is up to the user to configure the interleaving appropriately. At the moment it is assumed that the channel interleaving bits are immediately following the column bits (smallest sensible interleaving). Convenience methods for building multi-channel configurations will be added later.
2013-02-19	mem: Enforce strict use of busFirst- and busLastWordTime	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds a check to ensure that the delay incurred by the bus is not simply disregarded, but accounted for by someone. At this point, all the modules do is to zero it out, and no additional time is spent. This highlights where the bus timing is simply dropped instead of being paid for. As a follow up, the locations identified in this patch should add this additional time to the packets in one way or another. For now it simply acts as a sanity check and highlights where the delay is simply ignored. Since no time is added, all regressions remain the same.
2013-01-31	mem: Add comments for the DRAM address decoding	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds more verbose comments to explain the two different address mapping schemes of the DRAM controller.
2013-01-31	mem: Add tTAW and tFAW to the SimpleDRAM model	Ani Udipi
	This patch adds two additional scheduling constraints to the DRAM controller model, to constrain the activation rate. The two metrics are determine the size of the activation window in terms of the number of activates and the minimum time required for that number of activates. This maps to current DDRx, LPDDRx and WIOx standards that have either tFAW (4 activate window) or tTAW (2 activate window) scheduling constraints.
2013-01-31	mem: Separate out the different cases for DRAM bus busy time	Andreas Hansson
	This patch changes how the data bus busy time is calculated such that it is delayed to the actual scheduling time of the request as opposed to being done as soon as possible. This patch changes a bunch of statistics, and the stats update is bundled together with the introruction of tFAW/tTAW and the named DRAM configurations like DDR3 and LPDDR2.
2012-11-16	sim: have a curTick per eventq	Nilay 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.
2012-11-08	mem: Fix DRAM draining to ensure write queue is empty	Andreas Hansson
	This patch fixes the draining of the SimpleDRAM controller model. The controller performs buffering of writes and normally there is no need to ever empty the write buffer (if you have a fast on-chip memory, then use it). The patch adds checks to ensure the write buffer is drained when the controller is asked to do so.
2012-11-02	mem: fix use after free issue in memories until 4-phase work complete.	Ali Saidi

2012-11-02	sim: Move the draining interface into a separate base class	Andreas Sandberg
	This patch moves the draining interface from SimObject to a separate class that can be used by any object needing draining. However, objects not visible to the Python code (i.e., objects not deriving from SimObject) still depend on their parents informing them when to drain. This patch also gets rid of the CountedDrainEvent (which isn't really an event) and replaces it with a DrainManager.
2012-10-15	Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchy	Andreas Hansson
	This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations. The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.
2012-09-21	DRAM: Introduce SimpleDRAM to capture a high-level controller	Andreas Hansson
	This patch introduces a high-level model of a DRAM controller, with a basic read/write buffer structure, a selectable and customisable arbiter, a few address mapping options, and the basic DRAM timing constraints. The parameters make it possible to turn this model into any desired DDRx/LPDDRx/WideIOx memory controller. The intention is not to be cycle accurate or capture every aspect of a DDR DRAM interface, but rather to enable exploring of the high-level knobs with a good simulation speed. Thus, contrary to e.g. DRAMSim this module emphasizes simulation speed with a good-enough accuracy. This module is merely a starting point, and there are plenty additions and improvements to come. A notable addition is the support for address-striping in the bus to enable a multi-channel DRAM controller. Also note that there are still a few "todo's" in the code base that will be addressed as we go along. A follow-up patch will add basic performance regressions that use the traffic generator to exercise a few well-defined corner cases.