This patch extends the example big.LITTLE configuration to enable
dist-gem5 simulations of big.LITTLE systems.
Change-Id: I49c095ab3c737b6a082f7c6f15f514c269217756
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch prepares future extensions and customisation of the example
big.LITTLE configuration script. It breaks out the major phases into
functions so they can be called from other python scripts.
Change-Id: I2cb7c207c410fe14602cf17af7482719abba6c24
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch adds an IOCache to the example bigLITTLE
configuration. An IOCache is required for correct DMA
transfers when we have caches in the system.
Change-Id: Ifeddc1b360aacbb16b1393f361dd98873c834012
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter
is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore,
the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and
data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is
sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True",
tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency
is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Continue along the same line as the recent patch that made the
Ruby-related config scripts Python packages and make also the
configs/common directory a package.
All affected config scripts are updated (hopefully).
Note that this change makes it apparent that the current organisation
and naming of the config directory and its subdirectories is rather
chaotic. We mix scripts that are directly invoked with scripts that
merely contain convenience functions. While it is not addressed in
this patch we should follow up with a re-organisation of the
config structure, and renaming of some of the packages.
This patch refactors the configuration file to use a more
object-oriented design.
Change-Id: I44ac2d063c2b5901f385544fb6ce3f259459cb05
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big
CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little
CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script
can run a full system simulation with various number of big
and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes
two example device tree files for booting Linux on the
bigLITTLE system.
Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
