History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/simple/Throttle.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includes


# 11111:6da33e720481 16-Sep-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: message buffer, timer table: significant changes

This patch changes MessageBuffer and TimerTable, two structures used for
buffering messages by components in ruby. These structures would no longer
maintain pointers to clock objects. Functions in these structures have been
changed to take as input current time in Tick. Similarly, these structures
will not operate on Cycle valued latencies for different operations. The
corresponding functions would need to be provided with these latencies by
components invoking the relevant functions. These latencies should also be
in Ticks.

I felt the need for these changes while trying to speed up ruby. The ultimate
aim is to eliminate Consumer class and replace it with an EventManager object in
the MessageBuffer and TimerTable classes. This object would be used for
scheduling events. The event itself would contain information on the object and
function to be invoked.

In hindsight, it seems I should have done this while I was moving away from use
of a single global clock in the memory system. That change led to introduction
of clock objects that replaced the global clock object. It never crossed my
mind that having clock object pointers is not a good design. And now I really
don't like the fact that we have separate consumer, receiver and sender
pointers in message buffers.


# 11108:6342ddf6d733 16-Sep-2015 David Hashe <david.hashe@amd.com>

ruby: rename System.{hh,cc} to RubySystem.{hh,cc}

The eventual aim of this change is to pass RubySystem pointers through to
objects generated from the SLICC protocol code.

Because some of these objects need to dereference their RubySystem pointers,
they need access to the System.hh header file.

In src/mem/ruby/SConscript, the MakeInclude function creates single-line header
files in the build directory that do nothing except include the corresponding
header file from the source tree.

However, SLICC also generates a list of header files from its symbol table, and
writes it to mem/protocol/Types.hh in the build directory. This code assumes
that the header file name is the same as the class name.

The end result of this is the many of the generated slicc files try to include
RubySystem.hh, when the file they really need is System.hh. The path of least
resistence is just to rename System.hh to RubySystem.hh.


# 11092:a51ef09e3a78 12-Sep-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: simple network: store Switch* in PerfectSwitch and Throttle
There are two reasons for doing so:

a. provide a source of clock to PerfectSwitch. A follow on patch removes sender
and receiver pointers from MessageBuffer means that the object owning the
buffer should have some way of providing timing info.

b. schedule events. A follow on patch removes the consumer class. So the
PerfectSwitch needs some EventManager object to schedule events on its own.


# 11049:dfb0aa3f0649 19-Aug-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: reverts to changeset: bf82f1f7b040


# 11037:91d6a2d95cf8 14-Aug-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: simple network: store Switch* in PerfectSwitch and Throttle


# 11021:e8a6637afa4c 14-Aug-2015 Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>

ruby: Expose MessageBuffers as SimObjects

Expose MessageBuffers from SLICC controllers as SimObjects that can be
manipulated in Python. This patch has numerous benefits:
1) First and foremost, it exposes MessageBuffers as SimObjects that can be
manipulated in Python code. This allows parameters to be set and checked in
Python code to avoid obfuscating parameters within protocol files. Further, now
as SimObjects, MessageBuffer parameters are printed to config output files as a
way to track parameters across simulations (e.g. buffer sizes)

2) Cleans up special-case code for responseFromMemory buffers, and aligns their
instantiation and use with mandatoryQueue buffers. These two special buffers
are the only MessageBuffers that are exposed to components outside of SLICC
controllers, and they're both slave ends of these buffers. They should be
exposed outside of SLICC in the same way, and this patch does it.

3) Distinguishes buffer-specific parameters from buffer-to-network parameters.
Specifically, buffer size, randomization, ordering, recycle latency, and ports
are all specific to a MessageBuffer, while the virtual network ID and type are
intrinsics of how the buffer is connected to network ports. The former are
specified in the Python object, while the latter are specified in the
controller *.sm files. Unlike buffer-specific parameters, which may need to
change depending on the simulated system structure, buffer-to-network
parameters can be specified statically for most or all different simulated
systems.


# 10919:80069a602c83 10-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

ruby: replace global g_system_ptr with per-object pointers

This is another step in the process of removing global variables
from Ruby to enable multiple RubySystem instances in a single simulation.

With possibly multiple RubySystem objects, we can no longer use a global
variable to find "the" RubySystem object. Instead, each Ruby component
has to carry a pointer to the RubySystem object to which it belongs.


# 10918:dd3ab1f109ad 10-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

ruby: replace g_ruby_start with per-RubySystem m_start_cycle

This patch begins the process of removing global variables from the Ruby
source with the goal of eventually allowing users to create multiple Ruby
instances in a single simulation. Currently, users cannot do so because
several global variables and static members are referenced by the RubySystem
object in a way that assumes that there will only ever be a single RubySystem.
These need to be replaced with per-RubySystem equivalents.

This specific patch replaces the global var g_ruby_start, which is used
to calculate throughput statistics for Throttles in simple networks and
links in Garnet networks, with a RubySystem instance var m_start_cycle.


# 10895:287285860dd6 04-Jul-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: drop NetworkMessage class

This patch drops the NetworkMessage class. The relevant data members and functions
have been moved to the Message class, which was the parent of NetworkMessage.


# 10370:4466307b8a2a 15-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: revert some of the changes from ad9c042dce54
The changeset ad9c042dce54 made changes to the structures under the network
directory to use a map of buffers instead of vector of buffers.
The reasoning was that not all vnets that are created are used and we
needlessly allocate more buffers than required and then iterate over them
while processing network messages. But the move to map resulted in a slow
down which was pointed out by Andreas Hansson. This patch moves things
back to using vector of message buffers.


# 10311:ad9c042dce54 01-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: message buffers: significant changes

This patch is the final patch in a series of patches. The aim of the series
is to make ruby more configurable than it was. More specifically, the
connections between controllers are not at all possible (unless one is ready
to make significant changes to the coherence protocol). Moreover the buffers
themselves are magically connected to the network inside the slicc code.
These connections are not part of the configuration file.

This patch makes changes so that these connections will now be made in the
python configuration files associated with the protocols. This requires
each state machine to expose the message buffers it uses for input and output.
So, the patch makes these buffers configurable members of the machines.

The patch drops the slicc code that usd to connect these buffers to the
network. Now these buffers are exposed to the python configuration system
as Master and Slave ports. In the configuration files, any master port
can be connected any slave port. The file pyobject.cc has been modified to
take care of allocating the actual message buffer. This is inline with how
other port connections work.


# 10301:44839e8febbd 01-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: move files from ruby/system to ruby/structures

The directory ruby/system is crowded and unorganized. Hence, the files the
hold actual physical structures, are being moved to the directory
ruby/structures. This includes Cache Memory, Directory Memory,
Memory Controller, Wire Buffer, TBE Table, Perfect Cache Memory, Timer Table,
Bank Array.

The directory ruby/systems has the glue code that holds these structures
together.


# 10226:056363356d15 23-May-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: message buffer: drop dequeue_getDelayCycles()
The functionality of updating and returning the delay cycles would now be
performed by the dequeue() function itself.


# 10076:f81d94b53661 20-Feb-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: removes unused code.


# 10074:0e013fa647ac 20-Feb-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: message buffer: removes some unecessary functions.


# 9866:94dac7d7bb88 11-Sep-2013 Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>

ruby: Statically allocate stats in SimpleNetwork, Switch, Throttle

The previous changeset (9863:9483739f83ee) used STL vector containers to
dynamically allocate stats in the Ruby SimpleNetwork, Switch and Throttle. For
gcc versions before at least 4.6.3, this causes the standard vector allocator
to call Stats copy constructors (a no-no, since stats should be allocated in
the body of each SimObject instance). Since the size of these stats arrays is
known at compile time (NOTE: after code generation), this patch changes their
allocation to be static rather than using an STL vector.


# 9863:9483739f83ee 06-Sep-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: convert to gem5 style stats


# 9508:dde110931867 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: enable multiple clock domains
This patch allows ruby to have multiple clock domains. As I understand
with this patch, controllers can have different frequencies. The entire
network needs to run at a single frequency.

The idea is that with in an object, time is treated in terms of cycles.
But the messages that are passed from one entity to another should contain
the time in Ticks. As of now, this is only true for the message buffers,
but not for the links in the network. As I understand the code, all the
entities in different networks (simple, garnet-fixed, garnet-flexible) should
be clocked at the same frequency.

Another problem is that the directory controller has to operate at the same
frequency as the ruby system. This is because the memory controller does
not make use of the Message Buffer, and instead implements a buffer of its
own. So, it has no idea of the frequency at which the directory controller
is operating and uses ruby system's frequency for scheduling events.


# 9499:b03b556a8fbb 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: replaces Time with Cycles in many places
The patch started of with replacing Time with Cycles in the Consumer class.
But to get ruby to compile, the rest of the changes had to be carried out.
Subsequent patches will further this process, till we completely replace
Time with Cycles.


# 9465:4ae4f3f4b870 14-Jan-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: use ClockedObject in Consumer class
Many Ruby structures inherit from the Consumer, which is used for scheduling
events. The Consumer used to relay on an Event Manager for scheduling events
and on g_system_ptr for time. With this patch, the Consumer will now use a
ClockedObject to schedule events and to query for current time. This resulted
in several structures being converted from SimObjects to ClockedObjects. Also,
the MessageBuffer class now requires a pointer to a ClockedObject so as to
query for time.


# 9275:ef43e69c837a 02-Oct-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: makes some members non-static
This patch makes some of the members (profiler, network, memory vector)
of ruby system non-static.


# 9230:33eb3c8a98b9 18-Sep-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: avoid using g_system_ptr for event scheduling
This patch removes the use of g_system_ptr for event scheduling. Each consumer
object now needs to specify upfront an EventManager object it would use for
scheduling events. This makes the ruby memory system more amenable for a
multi-threaded simulation.


# 9171:ae88ecf37145 27-Aug-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Remove RubyEventQueue
This patch removes RubyEventQueue. Consumer objects now rely on RubySystem
or themselves for scheduling events.


# 9117:49116b947194 12-Jul-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: remove config information from ruby.stats
This patch removes printConfig() functions from all structures in Ruby.
Most of the information is already part of config.ini, and where ever it
is not, it would become in due course.


# 8645:89929730804b 31-Dec-2011 Nilay Vaish<nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Shuffle some of the included files
This patch adds and removes included files from some of the files so as to
organize remove some false dependencies and include some files directly
instead of transitively.


# 8608:02d7ac5fb855 03-Nov-2011 Nilay Vaish<nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Remove some unused typedefs
This patch removes some of the unused typedefs. It also moves
some of the typedefs from Global.hh to TypeDefines.hh. The patch
also eliminates the file NodeID.hh.


# 8485:7a9a7f2a3d46 03-Aug-2011 Nilay Vaish<nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Remove files and includes not in use


# 8259:36987780169e 28-Apr-2011 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

network: moved network config params

Moved the buffer_size, endpoint_bandwidth, and adaptive_routing params out of
the top-level parent network object and to only those networks that actually
use those parameters.


# 8232:b28d06a175be 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vector
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help


# 8229:78bf55f23338 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

includes: sort all includes


# 8054:9138d38eccd7 23-Feb-2011 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

ruby: cleaning up RubyQueue and RubyNetwork dprintfs
Overall, continue to progress Ruby debug messages to more of the normal M5
debug message style
- add a name() to the Ruby Throttle & PerfectSwitch objects so that the debug output
isn't littered w/"global:" everywhere.
- clean up messages that print over multiple lines when possible
- clean up duplicate prints in the message buffer


# 7832:de7601e6e19d 10-Jan-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get rid of ruby's Debug.hh

Get rid of the Debug class
Get rid of ASSERT and use assert
Use DPRINTFR for ProtocolTrace


# 7780:42da07116e12 01-Dec-2010 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: Converted old ruby debug calls to M5 debug calls

This patch developed by Nilay Vaish converts all the old GEMS-style ruby
debug calls to the appropriate M5 debug calls.


# 7454:3a3e8e8cce1b 11-Jun-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get rid of Vector and use STL
add a couple of helper functions to base for deleteing all pointers in
a container and outputting containers to a stream


# 7453:1a5db3dd0f62 11-Jun-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get rid of RefCnt and Allocator stuff use base/refcnt.hh

This was somewhat tricky because the RefCnt API was somewhat odd. The
biggest confusion was that the the RefCnt object's constructor that
took a TYPE& cloned the object. I created an explicit virtual clone()
function for things that took advantage of this version of the
constructor. I was conservative and used clone() when I was in doubt
of whether or not it was necessary. I still think that there are
probably too many instances of clone(), but hopefully not too many.

I converted several instances of const MsgPtr & to a simple MsgPtr.
If the function wants to avoid the overhead of creating another
reference, then it should just use a regular pointer instead of a ref
counting ptr.

There were a couple of instances where refcounted objects were created
on the stack. This seems pretty dangerous since if you ever
accidentally make a reference to that object with a ref counting
pointer, bad things are bound to happen.


# 7055:4e24742201d7 02-Apr-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get "using namespace" out of headers
In addition to obvious changes, this required a slight change to the slicc
grammar to allow types with :: in them. Otherwise slicc barfs on std::string
which we need for the headers that slicc generates.


# 7054:7d6862b80049 31-Mar-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

style: another ruby style pass


# 7024:30883414ad10 22-Mar-2010 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

ruby: Finally removed bash code cira. 2001ish!


# 6891:77451885bb00 29-Jan-2010 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

ruby: Removed out_link_vec from Consumer
Removed the out_line_vec data structure from the Consumer. I'm not sure
what this did before, but currently it has no usefulness.


# 6493:1fa51760a963 07-Aug-2009 Tushar Krishna <Tushar.Krishna@amd.com>

bug fix for data_msg_size in network/Network.cc


# 6372:f1a41ea3bbab 18-Jul-2009 Derek Hower <drh5@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: removed all refs to old RubyConfig


# 6288:083a6806dd96 06-Jul-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: apply some fixes that were overwritten by the recent ruby import.


# 6285:ce086eca1ede 06-Jul-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Import the latest ruby changes from gems.
This was done with an automated process, so there could be things that were
done in this tree in the past that didn't make it. One known regression
is that atomic memory operations do not seem to work properly anymore.


# 6284:a63d1dc4c820 06-Jul-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: replace strings that were missed in original ruby import.


# 6154:6bb54dcb940e 11-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Make ruby #includes use full paths to the files they're including.
This basically means changing all #include statements and changing
autogenerated code so that it generates the correct paths. Because
slicc generates #includes, I had to hard code the include paths to
mem/protocol.


# 6145:15cca6ab723a 11-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Import ruby and slicc from GEMS

We eventually plan to replace the m5 cache hierarchy with the GEMS
hierarchy, but for now we will make both live alongside eachother.