Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.
Two problems may arise when a distributed gem5 simulation terminates:
(i) simulation thread(s) may get stuck in an incomplete synchronisation
event which prohibits processing the simulation exit event; and (ii) a
stale receiver thread may try to access objects that have already been
deleted while exiting gem5. This patch terminates receive threads properly
and aborts the processing of any incomplete synchronisation event.
Change-Id: I72337aa12c7926cece00309640d478b61e55a429
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch adds the ability for an application to request dist-gem5 to begin/
end synchronization using an m5 op. When toggling on sync, all nodes agree
on the next sync point based on the maximum of all nodes' ticks. CPUs are
suspended until the sync point to avoid sending network messages until sync has
been enabled. Toggling off sync acts like a global execution barrier, where
all CPUs are disabled until every node reaches the toggle off point. This
avoids tricky situations such as one node hitting a toggle off followed by a
toggle on before the other nodes hit the first toggle off.
Distributed gem5 (abbreviated dist-gem5) is the result of the
convergence effort between multi-gem5 and pd-gem5 (from Univ. of
Wisconsin). It relies on the base multi-gem5 infrastructure for packet
forwarding, synchronisation and checkpointing but combines those with
the elaborated network switch model from pd-gem5.
--HG--
rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.cc
rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.hh
rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/dist_iface.cc
rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/dist_iface.hh
rename : src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/dist_packet.hh
