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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Hansson
750f33a901 MEM: Remove the Broadcast destination from the packet
This patch simplifies the packet by removing the broadcast flag and
instead more firmly relying on (and enforcing) the semantics of
transactions in the classic memory system, i.e. request packets are
routed from a master to a slave based on the address, and when they
are created they have neither a valid source, nor destination. On
their way to the slave, the request packet is updated with a source
field for all modules that multiplex packets from multiple master
(e.g. a bus). When a request packet is turned into a response packet
(at the final slave), it moves the potentially populated source field
to the destination field, and the response packet is routed through
any multiplexing components back to the master based on the
destination field.

Modules that connect multiplexing components, such as caches and
bridges store any existing source and destination field in the sender
state as a stack (just as before).

The packet constructor is simplified in that there is no longer a need
to pass the Packet::Broadcast as the destination (this was always the
case for the classic memory system). In the case of Ruby, rather than
using the parameter to the constructor we now rely on setDest, as
there is already another three-argument constructor in the packet
class.

In many places where the packet information was printed as part of
DPRINTFs, request packets would be printed with a numeric "dest" that
would always be -1 (Broadcast) and that field is now removed from the
printing.
2012-04-14 05:45:55 -04:00
Ali Saidi
8aaa39e93d mem: Add a master ID to each request object.
This change adds a master id to each request object which can be
used identify every device in the system that is capable of issuing a request.
This is part of the way to removing the numCpus+1 stats in the cache and
replacing them with the master ids. This is one of a series of changes
that make way for the stats output to be changed to python.
2012-02-12 16:07:38 -06:00
Nathan Binkert
8d2e51c7f5 includes: sort includes again 2009-05-17 14:34:52 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
eef3a2e142 types: Move stuff for global types into src/base/types.hh
--HG--
rename : src/sim/host.hh => src/base/types.hh
2009-05-17 14:34:50 -07:00
Gabe Black
633c96bd85 X86: The startup IPI delivery mode is not reserved. 2009-04-19 03:01:46 -07:00
Gabe Black
641513fe08 X86: Start implementing the interrupt command register in the local APIC. 2009-04-19 02:43:22 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
9c49bc7b00 mem: update stuff for changes to Packet and Request 2008-11-10 11:51:17 -08:00
Gabe Black
ec9d3aad71 X86: Make the local APIC process interrupts and send them to the CPU. 2008-10-12 13:45:21 -07:00
Gabe Black
876f4845f2 X86: Make the local APIC handle interrupt messages from the IO APIC. 2008-10-12 13:44:24 -07:00
Gabe Black
557bde43c3 X86: Make APICs communicate through the memory system. 2008-10-12 13:28:54 -07:00