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Andreas Hansson f26a289295 mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes
This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow
control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all
different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get
stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv
functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in
stress-test scenarios.

The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus,
sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has
recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply
clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting.

The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet
queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop
responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own
flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes
the previously seen deadlocks.
2015-03-02 04:00:35 -05:00
build_opts scons: Do not build the InOrderCPU 2015-01-20 08:12:45 -05:00
configs Ruby: Update backing store option to propagate through to all RubyPorts 2015-02-26 09:58:26 -06:00
ext ext: Bump DRAMPower to avoid compilation issues 2014-10-20 18:03:53 -04:00
src mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes 2015-03-02 04:00:35 -05:00
system arm: Add support for ARMv8 (AArch64 & AArch32) 2014-01-24 15:29:34 -06:00
tests tests: Run regression timeout as foreground 2015-03-02 04:00:29 -05:00
util cpu: add support for outputing a protobuf formatted CPU trace 2015-02-16 03:32:38 -05:00
.hgignore ext: Add a McPAT regression tester 2014-06-04 07:48:20 -07:00
.hgtags Added tag stable_2014_12_14 for changeset bdb307e8be54 2014-12-14 16:21:04 -06:00
COPYING copyright: Add code for finding all copyright blocks and create a COPYING file 2011-06-02 17:36:07 -07:00
LICENSE copyright: Add code for finding all copyright blocks and create a COPYING file 2011-06-02 17:36:07 -07:00
README misc: README direct to website for dependencies 2014-08-26 10:12:04 -04:00
SConstruct tests: Run regression timeout as foreground 2015-03-02 04:00:29 -05:00

This is the gem5 simulator.

The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org

A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for
more information about building the simulator and getting started
please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and
http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials.

To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang,
Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4,
and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback
support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details
concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools.

Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons
build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS,
POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5
binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See
http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options.

With the simulator built, have a look at
http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use
gem5.

The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
   - configs: example simulation configuration scripts
   - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5
   - src: source code of the gem5 simulator
   - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems
   - tests: regression tests
   - util: useful utility programs and files

To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware
(console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk
images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at
http://www.gem5.org/Download

If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org

Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.