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.
makeArmSystem creates both bare-metal and Linux systems more cleanly.
machine_type was never optional though listed as an optional argument; a system
such as "RealView_PBX" must now be explicitly specified. Now that it is a
required argument, the placement of the arguments has changed slightly
requiring some changes to calls that create ARM systems.
previous changesets took a closer look at memory mgmt in the inorder model and sought to avoid
dynamic memory mgmt (for access to pipeline resources) as much as possible. For the regressions
that were run, the sims are about 2x speedup from changeset 7726 which is the last change
since the recent commits in Feb. (note: these regressions now are 4-issue CPUs instead of just 1-issue)
there are still only a few inorder benchmark but for the lengthier benchmarks (twolf and vortext)
the latest changes to how instruction scheduling (how instructions figure out what they want to
do on each pipeline stage in the inorder model) were able to improve performance by a nice
amount... The latest results for the inorder model process about 100k insts/second
(note: 58% is over the last time run on 64-bit pool machines at UM)
This makes sure that the address ranges requested for caches and uncached ports
don't conflict with each other, and that accesses which are always uncached
(message signaled interrupts for instance) don't waste time passing through
caches.
This patch updates the output for regression tests that are carried out on
MESI_CMP_directory protocol. The changes made to the protocol in order to
remove the bugs present result in regression failure for the 60.rubytest.
Since the earlier protocol was incorrect, so we certainly cannot relay on the
earlier reference output. Hence, the update.
Make diff-out sort stats changes by percentage
by default, with '-a' to use current alpha sort
(instead of requiring '-p' to sort by percentage).
Other minor options cleanup too.
