Before this changeset, all local variables of type Entry and TBE were considered
to be pointers, but an immediate use of said variables would not be automatically
deferenced in SLICC-generated code. Instead, deferences occurred when such
variables were passed to functions, and were automatically dereferenced in
the bodies of the functions (e.g. the implicitly passed cache_entry).
This is a more general way to do it, which leaves in place the
assumption that parameters to functions and local variables of type AbstractCacheEntry
and TBE are always pointers, but instead of dereferencing to access member variables
on a contextual basis, the dereferencing automatically occurs on a type basis at the
moment a member is being accessed. So, now, things you can do that you couldn't before
include:
Entry foo := getCacheEntry(address);
cache_entry.DataBlk := foo.DataBlk;
or
cache_entry.DataBlk := getCacheEntry(address).DataBlk;
or even
cache_entry.DataBlk := static_cast(Entry, pointer, cache.lookup(address)).DataBlk;
This is a substitute for MessageBuffers between controllers where you don't
want messages to actually go through the Network, because requests/responses can
always get reordered wrt to one another (even if you turn off Randomization and turn on Ordered)
because you are, after all, going through a network with contention. For systems where you model
multiple controllers that are very tightly coupled and do not actually go through a network,
it is a pain to have to write a coherence protocol to account for mixed up request/response orderings
despite the fact that it's completely unrealistic. This is *not* meant as a substitute for real
MessageBuffers when messages do in fact go over a network.
It is useful for Ruby to understand from whence request packets came.
This has all request packets going into Ruby pass the contextId value, if
it exists. This supplants the old libruby proc_id value passed around in
all the Messages, so I've also removed the unused unsigned proc_id; member
generated by SLICC for all Message types.
The goal of the patch is to do away with the CacheMsg class currently in use
in coherence protocols. In place of CacheMsg, the RubyRequest class will used.
This class is already present in slicc_interface/RubyRequest.hh. In fact,
objects of class CacheMsg are generated by copying values from a RubyRequest
object.
The tester code is in testers/networktest.
The tester can be invoked by configs/example/ruby_network_test.py.
A dummy coherence protocol called Network_test is also addded for network-only simulations and testing. The protocol takes in messages from the tester and just pushes them into the network in the appropriate vnet, without storing any state.
I had recently committed a patch that removed the WakeUp*.py files from the
slicc/ast directory. I had forgotten to remove the import calls for these
files from slicc/ast/__init__.py. This resulted in error while running
regressions on zizzer. This patch does the needful.
This patch fixes the problem where Ruby would fail to call sendRetry on ports
after it nacked the port. This patch is particularly helpful for bursty dma
requests which often include several packets.
In SLICC, in order to define a type a data type for which it should not
generate any code, the keyword external_type is used. For those data types for
which code should be generated, the keyword structure is used. This patch
eliminates the use of keyword external_type for defining structures. structure
key word can now have an optional attribute external, which would be used for
figuring out whether or not to generate the code for this structure. Also, now
structures can have functions as well data members in them.
In order to add stall and wait facility for protocols, a keyword
wake_up_dependents was introduced. This patch removes the keyword,
instead this functionality is now implemented as function call.
In order to add stall and wait facility for protocols, a keyword
wake_up_all_dependents was introduced. This patch removes the keyword,
instead this functionality is now implemented as function call.
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.
None of the code in the ruby tester directory is compiled or referred to
outside of that directory. This change eliminates it. If it's needed in the
future, it can be revived from the history. In the mean time, this removes
clutter and the only use of the GEMS_ROOT scons variable.
There may not be a formally correct spelling for the past tense of mmap, but
mmapped is the spelling Google doesn't try to autocorrect. This makes sense
because it mirrors the past tense of map->mapped and not the past tense of
cape->caped.
--HG--
rename : src/arch/alpha/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/alpha/mmapped_ipr.hh
rename : src/arch/arm/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/arm/mmapped_ipr.hh
rename : src/arch/mips/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/mips/mmapped_ipr.hh
rename : src/arch/power/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/power/mmapped_ipr.hh
rename : src/arch/sparc/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/sparc/mmapped_ipr.hh
rename : src/arch/x86/mmaped_ipr.hh => src/arch/x86/mmapped_ipr.hh
At a couple of places in PerfectSwitch.cc and MessageBuffer.cc, DPRINTF()
has not been provided with correct number of arguments. The patch fixes these
bugs.
This patch removes the store buffer from Ruby. It is not in use currently.
Since libruby is being and store buffer makes calls to libruby, it is not
possible to maintain it until substantial changes are made.
This patch changes Address.hh so that it is not dependent on RubySystem.
This dependence seems unecessary. All those functions that depend on
RubySystem have been moved to Address.cc file.
This patch changes DataBlock.hh so that it is not dependent on RubySystem.
This dependence seems unecessary. All those functions that depende on
RubySystem have been moved to DataBlock.cc file.
This patch integrates permissions with cache and memory states, and then
automates the setting of permissions within the generated code. No longer
does one need to manually set the permissions within the setState funciton.
This patch will faciliate easier functional access support by always correctly
setting permissions for both cache and memory states.
--HG--
rename : src/mem/slicc/ast/EnumDeclAST.py => src/mem/slicc/ast/StateDeclAST.py
rename : src/mem/slicc/ast/TypeFieldEnumAST.py => src/mem/slicc/ast/TypeFieldStateAST.py
"executing" isnt a very descriptive debug message and in going through the
output you get multiple messages that say "executing" but nothing to help
you parse through the code/execution.
So instead, at least print out the name of the action that is taking
place in these functions.
Overall, continue to progress Ruby debug messages to more of the normal M5
debug message style
- add a name() to the Ruby Throttle & PerfectSwitch objects so that the debug output
isn't littered w/"global:" everywhere.
- clean up messages that print over multiple lines when possible
- clean up duplicate prints in the message buffer
In certain actions of the L1 cache controller, while creating an outgoing
message, the machine type was not being set. This results in a
segmentation fault when trace is collected. Joseph Pusudesris provided
his patch for fixing this issue.
Currently the wakeup function for the PerfectSwitch contains three loops -
loop on number of virtual networks
loop on number of incoming links
loop till all messages for this (link, network) have been routed
With an 8 processor mesh network and Hammer protocol, about 11-12% of the
was observed to have been spent in this function, which is the highest
amongst all the functions. It was found that the innermost loop is executed
about 45 times per invocation of the wakeup function, when each invocation
of the wakeup function processes just about one message.
The patch tries to do away with the redundant executions of the innermost
loop. Counters have been added for each virtual network that record the
number of messages that need to be routed for that virtual network. The
inner loops are only executed when the number of messages for that particular
virtual network > 0. This does away with almost 80% of the executions of the
innermost loop. The function now consumes about 5-6% of the total execution
time.
