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David Guillen Fandos
7cfb59d6e5 sim: Adding support for power models
This patch adds some basic support for power models in gem5.

The power interface is defined so it can interact with thermal
models as well. It implements a simple power evaluator that
can be used for simple power models that express power in the
form of a math expression. These expressions can use stats
within the same SimObject (or down its hierarchy) and some
magic variables such as "temp" for temperature.
In future patches we will extend this functionality to allow
slightly more complex expressions.

The model allows it to be extended to use other kinds of models.

Change-Id: I76752f9638b6815e229fd74cdcb7721a305cbc4b
2016-06-06 17:16:44 +01:00
Andreas Sandberg
be28d96510 Revert power patch sets with unexpected interactions
The following patches had unexpected interactions with the current
upstream code and have been reverted for now:

e07fd01651f3: power: Add support for power models
831c7f2f9e39: power: Low-power idle power state for idle CPUs
4f749e00b667: power: Add power states to ClockedObject

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

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extra : amend_source : 0b6fb073c6bbc24be533ec431eb51fbf1b269508
2016-04-06 19:43:31 +01:00
David Guillen Fandos
f902c0218a power: Add support for power models
This patch adds some basic support for power models in gem5.

The power interface is defined so it can interact with thermal
models as well. It implements a simple power evaluator that
can be used for simple power models that express power in the
form of a math expression. These expressions can use stats
within the same SimObject (or down its hierarchy) and some
magic variables such as "temp" for temperature.
In future patches we will extend this functionality to allow
slightly more complex expressions.

The model allows it to be extended to use other kinds of models.

Finally, the thermal model is updated to use the power usage as input.
2016-04-05 10:52:28 -05:00
Andrew Bardsley
0e8a90f06b cpu: `Minor' in-order CPU model
This patch contains a new CPU model named `Minor'. Minor models a four
stage in-order execution pipeline (fetch lines, decompose into
macroops, decompose macroops into microops, execute).

The model was developed to support the ARM ISA but should be fixable
to support all the remaining gem5 ISAs. It currently also works for
Alpha, and regressions are included for ARM and Alpha (including Linux
boot).

Documentation for the model can be found in src/doc/inside-minor.doxygen and
its internal operations can be visualised using the Minorview tool
utils/minorview.py.

Minor was designed to be fairly simple and not to engage in a lot of
instruction annotation. As such, it currently has very few gathered
stats and may lack other gem5 features.

Minor is faster than the o3 model. Sample results:

     Benchmark     |   Stat host_seconds (s)
    ---------------+--------v--------v--------
     (on ARM, opt) | simple | o3     | minor
                   | timing | timing | timing
    ---------------+--------+--------+--------
    10.linux-boot  |   169  |  1883  |  1075
    10.mcf         |   117  |   967  |   491
    20.parser      |   668  |  6315  |  3146
    30.eon         |   542  |  3413  |  2414
    40.perlbmk     |  2339  | 20905  | 11532
    50.vortex      |   122  |  1094  |   588
    60.bzip2       |  2045  | 18061  |  9662
    70.twolf       |   207  |  2736  |  1036
2014-07-23 16:09:04 -05:00
Djordje Kovacevic
80a26a3e39 MEM: Put memory system document into doxygen 2012-09-25 11:49:41 -05:00