History log of /gem5/src/mem/cache/prefetch/signature_path.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13963:94555f0223ba 11-Apr-2019 Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use SatCounter for prefetchers

Many prefetchers re-implement saturating counters with ints. Make
them use SatCounters instead.

Added missing operators and constructors to SatCounter for that to
be possible and their respective tests.

Change-Id: I36f10c89c27c9b3d1bf461e9ea546920f6ebb888
Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17995
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Bueno Hedo <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13624:3d8220c2d41d 13-Dec-2018 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>

mem-cache: Updated version of the Signature Path Prefetcher

This implementation is based in the description available in:
Jinchun Kim, Seth H. Pugsley, Paul V. Gratz, A. L. Narasimha Reddy,
Chris Wilkerson, and Zeshan Chishti. 2016.
Path confidence based lookahead prefetching.
In The 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
(MICRO-49). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, Article 60, 12 pages.

Change-Id: I4b8b54efef48ced7044bd535de9a69bca68d47d9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14819
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13553:047def1fa787 29-Nov-2018 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>

mem-cache: Signature Path Prefetcher

Related paper:
Lookahead Prefetching with Signature Path
J Kim, PV Gratz, ALN Reddy
The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC2), 2015

Change-Id: I2319be2fa409f955f65e1bf1e1bb2d6d9a4fea11
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14737
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>