This update includes the changes to whole-line writes, the refinement
of Read to ReadClean and ReadShared, the introduction of CleanEvict
for snoop-filter tracking, and updates to the DRAM command scheduler
for bank-group-aware scheduling.
Needless to say, almost every regression is affected.
The change in 20.parser is from new x87 instructions. The change to
pc-o3-timing is not clear to me. It seems that this test might be invoking
some undefined behavior.
A recent changeset of mine (http://repo.gem5.org/gem5/rev/4cfe55719da5)
inadvertently fixed a bug in the Minor CPU model which caused it to treat
software prefetches as regular loads. Prior to this changeset, Minor
did an ad-hoc generation of memory commands that left out the PF check;
because it now uses the common code that the other CPU models use,
it generates prefetches properly. These stat changes reflect the fact
that the Minor model now issues SoftPFReqs.
Changes due to speculative execution of an unaligned PC, introduction
of TLB stats, changes and re-work of the prefetcher, and the
introduction of rank-wise refresh in the DRAM controller.
This patch bumps the stats to reflect the addition of the snoop filter
and snoop stats, the change from bus to crossbar, and the updates to
the ARM regressions that are now using a different CPU and cache
configuration. Lastly, some minor changes are expected due to the
activation cleanup of the CPUs.
Mostly small differences in total ticks, but O3 stall causes
shifted significantly.
30.eon does speed up by ~6% on Alpha and ARM, and 50.vortex
by 4.5% on ARM. At the other extreme, X86 70.twolf is 0.8%
slower.
Update stats for recent changes. Mostly minor changes
in register access stats due to addition of new cc
register type and slightly different (and more accurate)
classification of int vs. fp register accesses.
The updates to the x87 caused the stats for several regressions to
change. This was mainly caused by the addition of a working 32-bit and
80-bit FP load instruction and xsave support.
Apparently only stats.txt was updated the last time, so
this changeset updates other reference output files
(config.ini, simout, simerr, ruby.stats) so that
test output diffs should not be cluttered with irrelevant
changes. There are a few stats.txt updates too, but
they are in the minority.