gem5/src/mem/ruby/system/TBETable.hh
Nilay Vaish c82a8979a3 Change interface between coherence protocols and CacheMemory
The purpose of this patch is to change the way CacheMemory interfaces with
coherence protocols. Currently, whenever a cache controller (defined in the
protocol under consideration) needs to carry out any operation on a cache
block, it looks up the tag hash map and figures out whether or not the block
exists in the cache. In case it does exist, the operation is carried out
(which requires another lookup). As observed through profiling of different
protocols, multiple such lookups take place for a given cache block. It was
noted that the tag lookup takes anything from 10% to 20% of the simulation
time. In order to reduce this time, this patch is being posted.

I have to acknowledge that the many of the thoughts that went in to this
patch belong to Brad.

Changes to CacheMemory, TBETable and AbstractCacheEntry classes:
1. The lookup function belonging to CacheMemory class now returns a pointer
to a cache block entry, instead of a reference. The pointer is NULL in case
the block being looked up is not present in the cache. Similar change has
been carried out in the lookup function of the TBETable class.
2. Function for setting and getting access permission of a cache block have
been moved from CacheMemory class to AbstractCacheEntry class.
3. The allocate function in CacheMemory class now returns pointer to the
allocated cache entry.

Changes to SLICC:
1. Each action now has implicit variables - cache_entry and tbe. cache_entry,
if != NULL, must point to the cache entry for the address on which the action
is being carried out. Similarly, tbe should also point to the transaction
buffer entry of the address on which the action is being carried out.
2. If a cache entry or a transaction buffer entry is passed on as an
argument to a function, it is presumed that a pointer is being passed on.
3. The cache entry and the tbe pointers received __implicitly__ by the
actions, are passed __explicitly__ to the trigger function.
4. While performing an action, set/unset_cache_entry, set/unset_tbe are to
be used for setting / unsetting cache entry and tbe pointers respectively.
5. is_valid() and is_invalid() has been made available for testing whether
a given pointer 'is not NULL' and 'is NULL' respectively.
6. Local variables are now available, but they are assumed to be pointers
always.
7. It is now possible for an object of the derieved class to make calls to
a function defined in the interface.
8. An OOD token has been introduced in SLICC. It is same as the NULL token
used in C/C++. If you are wondering, OOD stands for Out Of Domain.
9. static_cast can now taken an optional parameter that asks for casting the
given variable to a pointer of the given type.
10. Functions can be annotated with 'return_by_pointer=yes' to return a
pointer.
11. StateMachine has two new variables, EntryType and TBEType. EntryType is
set to the type which inherits from 'AbstractCacheEntry'. There can only be
one such type in the machine. TBEType is set to the type for which 'TBE' is
used as the name.

All the protocols have been modified to conform with the new interface.
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#ifndef __MEM_RUBY_SYSTEM_TBETABLE_HH__
#define __MEM_RUBY_SYSTEM_TBETABLE_HH__
#include <iostream>
#include "base/hashmap.hh"
#include "mem/ruby/common/Address.hh"
#include "mem/ruby/common/Global.hh"
#include "mem/ruby/profiler/Profiler.hh"
#include "mem/ruby/system/System.hh"
template<class ENTRY>
class TBETable
{
public:
TBETable(int number_of_TBEs)
: m_number_of_TBEs(number_of_TBEs)
{
}
void
printConfig(std::ostream& out)
{
out << "TBEs_per_TBETable: " << m_number_of_TBEs << std::endl;
}
bool isPresent(const Address& address) const;
void allocate(const Address& address);
void deallocate(const Address& address);
bool
areNSlotsAvailable(int n) const
{
return (m_number_of_TBEs - m_map.size()) >= n;
}
ENTRY* lookup(const Address& address);
// Print cache contents
void print(std::ostream& out) const;
private:
// Private copy constructor and assignment operator
TBETable(const TBETable& obj);
TBETable& operator=(const TBETable& obj);
// Data Members (m_prefix)
m5::hash_map<Address, ENTRY> m_map;
private:
int m_number_of_TBEs;
};
template<class ENTRY>
inline std::ostream&
operator<<(std::ostream& out, const TBETable<ENTRY>& obj)
{
obj.print(out);
out << std::flush;
return out;
}
template<class ENTRY>
inline bool
TBETable<ENTRY>::isPresent(const Address& address) const
{
assert(address == line_address(address));
assert(m_map.size() <= m_number_of_TBEs);
return !!m_map.count(address);
}
template<class ENTRY>
inline void
TBETable<ENTRY>::allocate(const Address& address)
{
assert(!isPresent(address));
assert(m_map.size() < m_number_of_TBEs);
m_map[address] = ENTRY();
}
template<class ENTRY>
inline void
TBETable<ENTRY>::deallocate(const Address& address)
{
assert(isPresent(address));
assert(m_map.size() > 0);
m_map.erase(address);
}
// looks an address up in the cache
template<class ENTRY>
inline ENTRY*
TBETable<ENTRY>::lookup(const Address& address)
{
if(m_map.find(address) != m_map.end()) return &(m_map.find(address)->second);
return NULL;
}
template<class ENTRY>
inline void
TBETable<ENTRY>::print(std::ostream& out) const
{
}
#endif // __MEM_RUBY_SYSTEM_TBETABLE_HH__