History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet2.0/SwitchAllocator.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13736:e678df1f0bf2 22-Feb-2019 Srikant Bharadwaj <srikant.bharadwaj@amd.com>

ruby: Fix garnet's round robin arbitration for vc selection

Garnet utilizes round robin policy to select a VC for
transmission ar Network Interface and Routers. The current logic
for round robin is only fair if all the virtual networks are active
at a given router. If the router or network interface is not
receiving traffic in from any vnet then the priority is always taken
up by the next vnet in numerically (or loops back to 0).

This fix changes the way we perform round robin arbitration. When
a VC is selected in a cycle, the round robin pointer is set to the VC
next to it and is iterated from there on. If any VC does not have a
flit in a given cycle, it will lose its turn until the next round.
At maximum traffic this will model round robin correctly even if
a certain VNET is not active at that unit.

Change-Id: I9bf805221054f9f25bee14b57ff521f4ce4ca980
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16688
Reviewed-by: Jieming Yin <Jieming.Yin@amd.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12071:fd0b4bd769dd 06-Jun-2017 Javier Cano-Cano <javier.cano555@gmail.com>

mem-garnet: Fix garnet stats

This patch fix some statistics that in presence of a resetStats
instruction were not reseted. This bug makes impossible to obtain
reliable network statistics when the simulation doesn't start from tick
zero.

Change-Id: Ibec45f08d95bf0a533d94b70ec960719206ae945
Maintainer: Tushar Krishna <tushar@ece.gatech.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3700
Reviewed-by: Jieming Yin <bjm419@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11831:3c38d3e74980 12-Feb-2017 Tushar Krishna <tushar@ece.gatech.edu>

ruby: fix round robin arbiter in garnet2.0
The rr arbiter pointer in garnet was getting updated on every request,
even if there is no grant. This was leading to a huge variance in wait
time at a router at high injection rates.
This patch corrects it to update upon a grant.


# 11666:10d59d546ea2 06-Oct-2016 Tushar Krishna <tushar@ece.gatech.edu>

ruby: garnet2.0
Revamped version of garnet with more optimized single-cycle routers,
more configurability, and cleaner code.