History log of /gem5/src/mem/cache/compressors/base.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13945:a573bed35a8b 19-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Add compression and decompression calls

Add a compressor to the base cache class and compress within
block allocation and decompress on writebacks.

This change does not implement data expansion (fat writes) yet,
nor it adds the compression latency to the block write time.

Change-Id: Ie36db65f7487c9b05ec4aedebc2c7651b4cb4821
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11410
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13943:4046b0c547be 29-May-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Add compression stats

Add compression statistics to the compressors. It tracks
the number of blocks that can fit into a certain power
of two size, and the number of decompressions.

For example, if a block is compressed to 100 bits, it will
belong to the 128-bits compression size. Although it could
also fit bigger sizes, they are not taken into account for
the stats (i.e., the 100-bit compression will fit only the
128-bits size, not 256 or higher).

We save stats for compressions that fail (i.e., compressed
size is bigger than original cache line size).

Change-Id: Idab71a40a660e33259908ccd880e42a880b5ee06
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11103
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13942:e8b59b523af6 13-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Create cache compressor

Create basic template for cache compressors. A basic compressor
must implement a compression and a decompression method.

Change-Id: I83dc4d2b8d2bc5ed9f760c938edfa4ebdd6b8583
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11100
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>