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Joel Hestness 905c0b347c ruby: Protocol changes for SimObject MessageBuffers 2015-08-14 00:19:45 -05:00
Joel Hestness 9567c839fe ruby: Remove the RubyCache/CacheMemory latency
The RubyCache (CacheMemory) latency parameter is only used for top-level caches
instantiated for Ruby coherence protocols. However, the top-level cache hit
latency is assessed by the Sequencer as accesses flow through to the cache
hierarchy. Further, protocol state machines should be enforcing these cache hit
latencies, but RubyCaches do not expose their latency to any existng state
machines through the SLICC/C++ interface. Thus, the RubyCache latency parameter
is superfluous for all caches. This is confusing for users.

As a step toward pushing L0/L1 cache hit latency into the top-level cache
controllers, move their latencies out of the RubyCache declarations and over to
their Sequencers. Eventually, these Sequencer parameters should be exposed as
parameters to the top-level cache controllers, which should assess the latency.
NOTE: Assessing these latencies in the cache controllers will require modifying
each to eliminate instantaneous Ruby hit callbacks in transitions that finish
accesses, which is likely a large undertaking.
2015-08-14 00:19:37 -05:00
Brandon Potter 9eda4bdc5a ruby: remove extra whitespace and correct misspelled words 2015-07-10 16:05:23 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 95a0b18431 ruby: single physical memory in fs mode
Both ruby and the system used to maintain memory copies.  With the changes
carried for programmed io accesses, only one single memory is required for
fs simulations.  This patch sets the copy of memory that used to reside
with the system to null, so that no space is allocated, but address checks
can still be carried out.  All the memory accesses now source and sink values
to the memory maintained by ruby.
2014-11-06 05:41:44 -06:00
Nilay Vaish 7a0d5aafe4 ruby: message buffers: significant changes
This patch is the final patch in a series of patches.  The aim of the series
is to make ruby more configurable than it was.  More specifically, the
connections between controllers are not at all possible (unless one is ready
to make significant changes to the coherence protocol).  Moreover the buffers
themselves are magically connected to the network inside the slicc code.
These connections are not part of the configuration file.

This patch makes changes so that these connections will now be made in the
python configuration files associated with the protocols.  This requires
each state machine to expose the message buffers it uses for input and output.
So, the patch makes these buffers configurable members of the machines.

The patch drops the slicc code that usd to connect these buffers to the
network.  Now these buffers are exposed to the python configuration system
as Master and Slave ports.  In the configuration files, any master port
can be connected any slave port.  The file pyobject.cc has been modified to
take care of allocating the actual message buffer.  This is inline with how
other port connections work.
2014-09-01 16:55:47 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 097aadc2cd config: ruby: remove memory controller from network test
It is not in use and not required as such.
2014-04-19 09:00:30 -05:00
Nilay Vaish a20fbdfc23 config: ruby: remove piobus from protocols
This patch removes the piobus from the protocol config files.  The ports
are now connected to the piobus in the Ruby.py file.
2014-03-17 17:40:15 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 9ec59e8b69 ruby: remove cntrl_id from python config scripts. 2014-01-04 00:03:32 -06:00
Andreas Hansson a8480fe1c3 config: Move the memory instantiation outside FSConfig
This patch moves the instantiation of the memory controller outside
FSConfig and instead relies on the mem_ranges to pass the information
to the caller (e.g. fs.py or one of the regression scripts). The main
motivation for this change is to expose the structural composition of
the memory system and allow more tuning and configuration without
adding a large number of options to the makeSystem functions.

The patch updates the relevant example scripts to maintain the current
functionality. As the order that ports are connected to the memory bus
changes (in certain regresisons), some bus stats are shuffled
around. For example, what used to be layer 0 is now layer 1.

Going forward, options will be added to support the addition of
multi-channel memory controllers.
2013-08-19 03:52:27 -04:00
Nilay Vaish 62a93f0bf0 ruby: check for compatibility between mem size and num dirs
The configuration scripts provided for ruby assume that the available
physical memory is equally distributed amongst the directory controllers.
But there is no check to ensure this assumption has been adhered to. This
patch adds the required check.
2013-06-28 21:36:11 -05:00
Akash Bagdia 7d7ab73862 sim: Add the notion of clock domains to all ClockedObjects
This patch adds the notion of source- and derived-clock domains to the
ClockedObjects. As such, all clock information is moved to the clock
domain, and the ClockedObjects are grouped into domains.

The clock domains are either source domains, with a specific clock
period, or derived domains that have a parent domain and a divider
(potentially chained). For piece of logic that runs at a derived clock
(a ratio of the clock its parent is running at) the necessary derived
clock domain is created from its corresponding parent clock
domain. For now, the derived clock domain only supports a divider,
thus ensuring a lower speed compared to its parent. Multiplier
functionality implies a PLL logic that has not been modelled yet
(create a separate clock instead).

The clock domains should be used as a mechanism to provide a
controllable clock source that affects clock for every clocked object
lying beneath it. The clock of the domain can (in a future patch) be
controlled by a handler responsible for dynamic frequency scaling of
the respective clock domains.

All the config scripts have been retro-fitted with clock domains. For
the System a default SrcClockDomain is created. For CPUs that run at a
different speed than the system, there is a seperate clock domain
created. This domain incorporates the CPU and the associated
caches. As before, Ruby runs under its own clock domain.

The clock period of all domains are pre-computed, such that no virtual
functions or multiplications are needed when calling
clockPeriod. Instead, the clock period is pre-computed when any
changes occur. For this to be possible, each clock domain tracks its
children.
2013-06-27 05:49:49 -04:00
Nilay Vaish 407b1a77c8 config: ruby network test: remove piobus check 2013-04-17 16:06:24 -05:00
Malek Musleh 3137557cad config: move ruby objects under ruby_system in obj hierarchy
This patch moves the contollers to be children of the ruby_system instead of
'system' under the python object hierarchy. This is so that these objects
can inherit some of the ruby_system's parameter values without resorting to
calling a global system pointer during run-time.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2013-01-14 10:05:14 -06:00
Andreas Hansson fccbf8bb45 AddrRange: Simplify AddrRange params Python hierarchy
This patch simplifies the Range object hierarchy in preparation for an
address range class that also allows striping (e.g. selecting a few
bits as matching in addition to the range).

To extend the AddrRange class to an AddrRegion, the first step is to
simplify the hierarchy such that we can make it as lean as possible
before adding the new functionality. The only class using Range and
MetaRange is AddrRange, and the three classes are now collapsed into
one.
2012-09-19 06:15:41 -04:00
Jason Power 44b4c96253 Ruby: Add RubySystem parameter to MemoryControl
This guarantees that RubySystem object is created before the MemoryController
object is created.
2012-08-16 23:39:36 -05:00
Brad Beckmann 11b725c19d ruby: changes how Topologies are created
Instead of just passing a list of controllers to the makeTopology function
in src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/<Topo>.py we pass in a function pointer
which knows how to make the topology, possibly with some extra state set
in the configs/ruby/<protocol>.py file. Thus, we can move all of the files
from network/topologies to configs/topologies. A new class BaseTopology
is added which all topologies in configs/topologies must inheirit from and
follow its API.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Crossbar.py => configs/topologies/Crossbar.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Mesh.py => configs/topologies/Mesh.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py => configs/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Pt2Pt.py => configs/topologies/Pt2Pt.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Torus.py => configs/topologies/Torus.py
2012-07-10 22:51:53 -07:00
Andreas Hansson b00949d88b MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memories
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of
PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual
memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous
address range.

All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic
behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access
methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now
SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of
memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory.

To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now
distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called
PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and
their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an
infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut"
accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the
global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some
testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to
the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and
any potential ACPI tables.

Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the
same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the
checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible
re-organisation.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/AbstractMemory.py
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/SimpleMemory.py
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/abstract_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/abstract_mem.hh
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/simple_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/simple_mem.hh
2012-04-06 13:46:31 -04:00
Nilay Vaish 4f4a710457 Config: corrects the way Ruby attaches to the DMA ports
With recent changes to the memory system, a port cannot be assigned a peer
port twice. While making use of the Ruby memory system in FS mode, DMA
ports were assigned peer twice, once for the classic memory system
and once for the Ruby memory system. This patch removes this double
assignment of peer ports.
2012-04-05 11:09:19 -05:00
Andreas Hansson a128ba7cd1 Ruby: Remove the physMemPort and instead access memory directly
This patch removes the physMemPort from the RubySequencer and instead
uses the system pointer to access the physmem. The system already
keeps track of the physmem and the valid memory address ranges, and
with this patch we merely make use of that existing functionality. The
memory is modified so that it is possible to call the access functions
(atomic and functional) without going through the port, and the memory
is allowed to be unconnected, i.e. have no ports (since Ruby does not
attach it like the conventional memory system).
2012-03-30 09:42:36 -04:00
Andreas Hansson 00978170f3 MEM: Fix master/slave ports in Ruby and non-regression scripts
This patch brings the Ruby and other scripts up to date with the
introduction of the master/slave ports.
2012-02-14 03:41:53 -05:00
Gabe Black d7f71bf424 SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in the configs directory 2012-01-28 07:24:50 -08:00
Nilay Vaish 5e0851d554 Network_test: Conform it with functional access changes in Ruby
Addition of functional access support to Ruby necessitated some changes to
the way coherence protocols are written. I had forgotten to update the
Network_test protocol. This patch makes those updates.
2011-07-03 11:33:46 -05:00
Steve Reinhardt 8a652f9871 config: tweak ruby configs to clean up hierarchy
Re-enabling implicit parenting (see previous patch) causes current
Ruby config scripts to create some strange hierarchies and generate
several warnings.  This patch makes three general changes to address
these issues.

1. The order of object creation in the ruby config files makes the L1
   caches children of the sequencer rather than the controller; these
   config ciles are rewritten to assign the L1 caches to the
   controller first.

2. The assignment of the sequencer list to system.ruby.cpu_ruby_ports
   causes the sequencers to be children of system.ruby, generating
   warnings because they are already parented to their respective
   controllers.  Changing this attribute to _cpu_ruby_ports fixes this
   because the leading underscore means this is now treated as a plain
   Python attribute rather than a child assignment. As a result, the
   configuration hierarchy changes such that, e.g.,
   system.ruby.cpu_ruby_ports0 becomes system.l1_cntrl0.sequencer.

3. In the topology classes, the routers become children of some random
   internal link node rather than direct children of the topology.
   The topology classes are rewritten to assign the routers to the
   topology object first.
2011-05-23 14:29:23 -07:00
Brad Beckmann 40bcbf4253 network: convert links & switches to first class C++ SimObjects
This patch converts links and switches from second class simobjects that were
virtually ignored by the networks (both simple and Garnet) to first class
simobjects that directly correspond to c++ ojbects manipulated by the
topology and network classes.  This is especially true for Garnet, where the
links and switches directly correspond to specific C++ objects.

By making this change, many aspects of the Topology class were simplified.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.cc => src/mem/ruby/network/BasicLink.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.hh => src/mem/ruby/network/BasicLink.hh
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.cc => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetLink_d.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.hh => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetLink_d.hh
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetNetwork_d.py => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetLink_d.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetNetwork_d.py => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetRouter_d.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.cc => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/flexible-pipeline/GarnetLink.cc
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/Network.hh => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/flexible-pipeline/GarnetLink.hh
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetNetwork_d.py => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/flexible-pipeline/GarnetLink.py
rename : src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/GarnetNetwork_d.py => src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/flexible-pipeline/GarnetRouter.py
2011-04-28 17:18:14 -07:00
Tushar Krishna 09c3a97a4c This patch adds the network tester for simple and garnet networks.
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.
2011-03-21 22:51:58 -04:00