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Andreas Hansson
9cbe1cb653 config: Unify caches used in regressions and adjust L2 MSHRs
This patch unified the L1 and L2 caches used throughout the
regressions instead of declaring different, but very similar,
configurations in the different scripts.

The patch also changes the default L2 configuration to match what it
used to be for the fs and se scripts (until the last patch that
updated the regressions to also make use of the cache config). The
MSHRs and targets per MSHR are now set to a more realistic default of
20 and 12, respectively.

As a result of both the aforementioned changes, many of the regression
stats are changed. A follow-on patch will bump the stats.
2012-10-30 07:44:08 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
651de2d9af config: Fix the cache class naming in regression scripts
This patch unifies the naming of the default L1 and L2 caches in the
regression configs to be in line with what is used in the se and fs
scripts.
2012-10-26 06:42:42 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
d22796c03c config: Use shared cache config for regressions
This patch uses the common L1, L2 and IOCache configuration for the
regressions that all share the same cache parameters. There are a few
regressions that use a slightly different configuration (memtest,
o3-timing=mp, simple-atomic-mp and simple-timing-mp), and the latter
are not changed in this patch. They will be updated in a future patch.

The common cache configurations are changed to match the ones used in
the regressions, and are slightly changed with respect to what they
were. Hopefully this means we can converge on a common base
configuration, used both in the normal user configurations and
regressions.

As only regressions that shared the same cache configuration are
updated, no regressions are affected.
2012-10-25 04:32:44 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
88554790c3 Mem: Use cycles to express cache-related latencies
This patch changes the cache-related latencies from an absolute time
expressed in Ticks, to a number of cycles that can be scaled with the
clock period of the caches. Ultimately this patch serves to enable
future work that involves dynamic frequency scaling. As an immediate
benefit it also makes it more convenient to specify cache performance
without implicitly assuming a specific CPU core operating frequency.

The stat blocked_cycles that actually counter in ticks is now updated
to count in cycles.

As the timing is now rounded to the clock edges of the cache, there
are some regressions that change. Plenty of them have very minor
changes, whereas some regressions with a short run-time are perturbed
quite significantly. A follow-on patch updates all the statistics for
the regressions.
2012-10-15 08:10:54 -04:00
Mrinmoy Ghosh
6fc0094337 Cache: add a response latency to the caches
In the current caches the hit latency is paid twice on a miss. This patch lets
a configurable response latency be set of the cache for the backward path.
2012-09-25 11:49:41 -05:00
Chander Sudanthi
61c14da751 O3: Remove hardcoded tgts_per_mshr in O3CPU.py.
There are two lines in O3CPU.py that set the dcache and icache
tgts_per_mshr to 20, ignoring any pre-configured value of tgts_per_mshr.
This patch removes these hardcoded lines from O3CPU.py and sets the default
L1 cache mshr targets to 20.

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2011-12-01 00:15:22 -08:00
Ali Saidi
a432d8e085 Mem: Fix issue with dirty block being lost when entire block transferred to non-cache.
This change fixes the problem for all the cases we actively use. If you want to try
more creative I/O device attachments (E.g. sharing an L2), this won't work. You
would need another level of caching between the I/O device and the cache
(which you actually need anyway with our current code to make sure writes
propagate). This is required so that you can mark the cache in between as
top level and it won't try to send ownership of a block to the I/O device.
Asserts have been added that should catch any issues.
2011-03-17 19:20:19 -05:00
Gabe Black
119f5f8e94 X86: Add L1 caches for the TLB walkers.
Small L1 caches are connected to the TLB walkers when caches are used. This
allows them to participate in the coherence protocol properly.
2011-02-01 18:28:41 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
9a8cb7db7e python: Move more code into m5.util allow SCons to use that code.
Get rid of misc.py and just stick misc things in __init__.py
Move utility functions out of SCons files and into m5.util
Move utility type stuff from m5/__init__.py to m5/util/__init__.py
Remove buildEnv from m5 and allow access only from m5.defines
Rename AddToPath to addToPath while we're moving it to m5.util
Rename read_command to readCommand while we're moving it
Rename compare_versions to compareVersions while we're moving it.

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rename : src/python/m5/convert.py => src/python/m5/util/convert.py
rename : src/python/m5/smartdict.py => src/python/m5/util/smartdict.py
2009-09-22 15:24:16 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
6629d9b2bc mem: use single BadAddr responder per system.
Previously there was one per bus, which caused some coherence problems
when more than one decided to respond.  Now there is just one on
the main memory bus.  The default bus responder on all other buses
is now the downstream cache's cpu_side port.  Caches no longer need
to do address range filtering; instead, we just have a simple flag
to prevent snoops from propagating to the I/O bus.
2008-07-16 11:10:33 -07:00
Ali Saidi
06a9f58c68 DMA: Add IOCache and fix bus bridge to optionally only send requests one
way so a cache can handle partial block requests for i/o devices.

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2007-08-10 16:14:01 -04:00
Steve Reinhardt
07f091d6ed Get rid of remaining traces of obsolete CoherenceProtocol object.
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2007-06-30 17:59:45 -07:00
Ali Saidi
634d2e9d83 remove hit_latency and make latency do the right thing
set the latency parameter in terms of a latency
add caches to tsunami-simple configs

configs/common/Caches.py:
tests/configs/memtest.py:
tests/configs/o3-timing-mp.py:
tests/configs/o3-timing.py:
tests/configs/simple-atomic-mp.py:
tests/configs/simple-timing-mp.py:
tests/configs/simple-timing.py:
    set the latency parameter in terms of a latency
configs/common/FSConfig.py:
    give the bridge a default latency too
src/mem/cache/cache_builder.cc:
src/python/m5/objects/BaseCache.py:
    remove hit_latency and make latency do the right thing
tests/configs/tsunami-simple-atomic-dual.py:
tests/configs/tsunami-simple-atomic.py:
tests/configs/tsunami-simple-timing-dual.py:
tests/configs/tsunami-simple-timing.py:
    add caches to tsunami-simple configs

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2007-05-10 18:24:48 -04:00
Ron Dreslinski
dbdf2f14ae Add L2 cache option to fs.py --l2cache
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2006-11-15 18:22:15 -05:00
Lisa Hsu
a6fd29ddf9 factor out common run code from se.py and fs.py.
configs/example/fs.py:
    factor out common code.
configs/example/se.py:
    factor out common code

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extra : convert_revision : 72a1f653c84eae1b7d281e0a5e60ee116ad6b27d
2006-10-27 16:32:26 -04:00