gem5/src/mem/Bus.py
Stephan Diestelhorst ba98d598ae mem: Simple Snoop Filter
This is a first cut at a simple snoop filter that tracks presence of lines in
the caches "above" it. The snoop filter can be applied at any given cache
hierarchy and will then handle the caches above it appropriately; there is no
need to use this only in the last-level bus.

This design currently has some limitations: missing stats, no notion of clean
evictions (these will not update the underlying snoop filter, because they are
not sent from the evicting cache down), no notion of capacity for the snoop
filter and thus no need for invalidations caused by capacity pressure in the
snoop filter. These are planned to be added on top with future change sets.
2014-09-20 17:18:26 -04:00

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# Authors: Nathan Binkert
# Andreas Hansson
from MemObject import MemObject
from System import System
from m5.params import *
from m5.proxy import *
from m5.SimObject import SimObject
class BaseBus(MemObject):
type = 'BaseBus'
abstract = True
cxx_header = "mem/bus.hh"
slave = VectorSlavePort("vector port for connecting masters")
master = VectorMasterPort("vector port for connecting slaves")
header_cycles = Param.Cycles(1, "cycles of overhead per transaction")
width = Param.Unsigned(8, "bus width (bytes)")
# The default port can be left unconnected, or be used to connect
# a default slave port
default = MasterPort("Port for connecting an optional default slave")
# The default port can be used unconditionally, or based on
# address range, in which case it may overlap with other
# ports. The default range is always checked first, thus creating
# a two-level hierarchical lookup. This is useful e.g. for the PCI
# bus configuration.
use_default_range = Param.Bool(False, "Perform address mapping for " \
"the default port")
class NoncoherentBus(BaseBus):
type = 'NoncoherentBus'
cxx_header = "mem/noncoherent_bus.hh"
class CoherentBus(BaseBus):
type = 'CoherentBus'
cxx_header = "mem/coherent_bus.hh"
system = Param.System(Parent.any, "System that the bus belongs to.")
class SnoopFilter(SimObject):
type = 'SnoopFilter'
cxx_header = "mem/snoop_filter.hh"
lookup_latency = Param.Cycles(3, "lookup latency (cycles)")
system = Param.System(Parent.any, "System that the bus belongs to.")