mem: Transition away from isSupplyExclusive for writebacks

This patch changes how writebacks communicate whether the line is
passed as modified or owned. Previously we relied on the
isSupplyExclusive mechanism, which was originally designed to avoid
unecessary snoops.

For normal cache requests we use the sharedAsserted mechanism to
determine if a block should be marked writeable or not, and with this
patch we transition the writebacks to also use this
mechanism. Conceptually this is cleaner and more consistent.
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Hansson 2015-07-30 03:41:40 -04:00
parent 5902e29e84
commit 5a18e181ff
2 changed files with 14 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -400,7 +400,9 @@ Cache::access(PacketPtr pkt, CacheBlk *&blk, Cycles &lat,
}
}
blk->status |= BlkDirty;
if (pkt->isSupplyExclusive()) {
// if shared is not asserted we got the writeback in modified
// state, if it is asserted we are in the owned state
if (!pkt->sharedAsserted()) {
blk->status |= BlkWritable;
}
// nothing else to do; writeback doesn't expect response
@ -1475,8 +1477,14 @@ Cache::writebackBlk(CacheBlk *blk)
PacketPtr writeback = new Packet(writebackReq, MemCmd::Writeback);
if (blk->isWritable()) {
writeback->setSupplyExclusive();
// not asserting shared means we pass the block in modified
// state, mark our own block non-writeable
blk->status &= ~BlkWritable;
} else {
// we are in the owned state, tell the receiver
writeback->assertShared();
}
writeback->allocate();
std::memcpy(writeback->getPtr<uint8_t>(), blk->data, blkSize);
@ -1998,9 +2006,10 @@ Cache::recvTimingSnoopReq(PacketPtr pkt)
pkt->assertMemInhibit();
if (!pkt->needsExclusive()) {
pkt->assertShared();
// the writeback is no longer the exclusive copy in
// the system
wb_pkt->clearSupplyExclusive();
// the writeback is no longer passing exclusivity (the
// receiving cache should consider the block owned
// rather than modified)
wb_pkt->assertShared();
} else {
// if we're not asserting the shared line, we need to
// invalidate our copy. we'll do that below as long as

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@ -500,7 +500,6 @@ class Packet : public Printable
void setExpressSnoop() { flags.set(EXPRESS_SNOOP); }
bool isExpressSnoop() const { return flags.isSet(EXPRESS_SNOOP); }
void setSupplyExclusive() { flags.set(SUPPLY_EXCLUSIVE); }
void clearSupplyExclusive() { flags.clear(SUPPLY_EXCLUSIVE); }
bool isSupplyExclusive() const { return flags.isSet(SUPPLY_EXCLUSIVE); }
void setSuppressFuncError() { flags.set(SUPPRESS_FUNC_ERROR); }
bool suppressFuncError() const { return flags.isSet(SUPPRESS_FUNC_ERROR); }