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/*
* Copyright (c) 2006 The Regents of The University of Michigan
* All rights reserved.
*
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*
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#ifndef __CPU_ACTIVITY_HH__
#define __CPU_ACTIVITY_HH__
#include "base/timebuf.hh"
#include "base/trace.hh"
/**
* ActivityRecorder helper class that informs the CPU if it can switch
* over to being idle or not. It works by having a time buffer as
* long as any time buffer in the CPU, and the CPU and all of its
* stages inform the ActivityRecorder when they write to any time
* buffer. The ActivityRecorder marks a 1 in the "0" slot of the time
* buffer any time a stage writes to a time buffer, and it advances
* its time buffer at the same time as all other stages. The
* ActivityRecorder also records if a stage has activity to do next
* cycle. The recorder keeps a count of these two. Thus any time the
* count is non-zero, there is either communication still in flight,
* or activity that still must be done, meaning that the CPU can not
* idle. If count is zero, then the CPU can safely idle as it has no
* more outstanding work to do.
*/
class ActivityRecorder {
public:
ActivityRecorder(int num_stages, int longest_latency, int count);
/** Records that there is activity this cycle. */
void activity();
/** Advances the activity buffer, decrementing the activityCount
* if active communication just left the time buffer, and
* determining if there is no activity.
*/
void advance();
/** Marks a stage as active. */
void activateStage(const int idx);
/** Deactivates a stage. */
void deactivateStage(const int idx);
/** Returns how many things are active within the recorder. */
int getActivityCount() { return activityCount; }
/** Sets the count to a starting value. Can be used to disable
* the idling option.
*/
void setActivityCount(int count)
{ activityCount = count; }
/** Returns if the CPU should be active. */
bool active() { return activityCount; }
/** Clears the time buffer and the activity count. */
void reset();
/** Debug function to dump the contents of the time buffer. */
void dump();
/** Debug function to ensure that the activity count matches the
* contents of the time buffer.
*/
void validate();
private:
/** Time buffer that tracks if any cycles has active communication
* in them. It should be as long as the longest communication
* latency in the system. Each time any time buffer is written,
* the activity buffer should also be written to. The
* activityBuffer is advanced along with all the other time
* buffers, so it should have a 1 somewhere in it only if there
* is active communication in a time buffer.
*/
TimeBuffer<bool> activityBuffer;
/** Longest latency time buffer in the CPU. */
int longestLatency;
/** Tracks how many stages and cycles of time buffer have
* activity. Stages increment this count when they switch to
* active, and decrement it when they switch to
* inactive. Whenever a cycle that previously had no information
* is written in the time buffer, this is incremented. When a
* cycle that had information exits the time buffer due to age,
* this count is decremented. When the count is 0, there is no
* activity in the CPU, and it can be descheduled.
*/
int activityCount;
/** Number of stages that can be marked as active or inactive. */
int numStages;
/** Records which stages are active/inactive. */
bool *stageActive;
};
#endif // __CPU_ACTIVITY_HH__