# Copyright (c) 2012, 2016 ARM Limited # All rights reserved. # # The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall # not be construed as granting a license to any other intellectual # property including but not limited to intellectual property relating # to a hardware implementation of the functionality of the software # licensed hereunder. You may use the software subject to the license # terms below provided that you ensure that this notice is replicated # unmodified and in its entirety in all distributions of the software, # modified or unmodified, in source code or in binary form. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are # met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer; # redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; # neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its # contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from # this software without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS # "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT # LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR # A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT # OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, # SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT # LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, # DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY # THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE # OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # # Authors: Thomas Grass # Andreas Hansson # Sascha Bischoff from m5.params import * from m5.proxy import * from MemObject import MemObject # The traffic generator is a master module that generates stimuli for # the memory system, based on a collection of simple behaviours that # are either probabilistic or based on traces. It can be used stand # alone for creating test cases for interconnect and memory # controllers, or function as a black-box replacement for system # components that are not yet modelled in detail, e.g. a video engine # or baseband subsystem in an SoC. # # The traffic generator has a single master port that is used to send # requests, independent of the specific behaviour. The behaviour of # the traffic generator is specified in a configuration file, and this # file describes a state transition graph where each state is a # specific generator behaviour. Examples include idling, generating # linear address sequences, random sequences and replay of captured # traces. By describing these behaviours as states, it is straight # forward to create very complex behaviours, simply by arranging them # in graphs. The graph transitions can also be annotated with # probabilities, effectively making it a Markov Chain. class TrafficGen(MemObject): type = 'TrafficGen' cxx_header = "cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.hh" # Port used for sending requests and receiving responses port = MasterPort("Master port") # Config file to parse for the state descriptions config_file = Param.String("Configuration file describing the behaviour") # System used to determine the mode of the memory system system = Param.System(Parent.any, "System this generator is part of") # Should requests respond to back-pressure or not, if true, the # rate of the traffic generator will be slowed down if requests # are not immediately accepted elastic_req = Param.Bool(False, "Slow down requests in case of backpressure") # Let the user know if we have waited for a retry and not made any # progress for a long period of time. The default value is # somewhat arbitrary and may well have to be tuned. progress_check = Param.Latency('1ms', "Time before exiting " \ "due to lack of progress")