History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/Controller.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13974:af47a3ae0f6b 19-Feb-2019 Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>

mem-ruby: Hit latencies defined by the controllers

Removed the icache/dcache hit latency parameters from the Sequencer.
They were replaced by the mandatory queue enqueue latency that is now
defined by the top-level cache controller. By default, the latency is
defined by the mandatory_queue_latency parameter. When the latency
depends on specific protocol states or on the request type, the protocol
may override the mandatoryQueueLatency function.

Change-Id: I72e57a7ea49501ef81dc7f591bef14134274647c
Signed-off-by: Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18413
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13892:0182a0601f66 22-Apr-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Minimize the use of MemObject.

MemObject doesn't provide anything beyond its base ClockedObject any
more, so this change removes it from most inheritance hierarchies.
Occasionally MemObject is replaced with SimObject when I was fairly
confident that the extra functionality of ClockedObject wasn't needed.

Change-Id: Ic014ab61e56402e62548e8c831eb16e26523fdce
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18289
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13665:9c7fe3811b88 25-Jan-2019 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

python: Don't assume SimObjects live in the global namespace

The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects
from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations
to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files
consistent with configuration files.

Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 12065:e3e51756dfef 13-Mar-2017 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

ruby: Add support for address ranges in the directory

Previously the directory covered a flat address range that always
started from address 0. This change adds a vector of address ranges
with interleaving and hashing that each directory keeps track of and
the necessary flexibility to support systems with non continuous
memory ranges.

Change-Id: I6ea1c629bdf4c5137b7d9c89dbaf6c826adfd977
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2903
Reviewed-by: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 10524:fff17530cef6 06-Nov-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: interface with classic memory controller
This patch is the final in the series. The whole series and this patch in
particular were written with the aim of interfacing ruby's directory controller
with the memory controller in the classic memory system. This is being done
since ruby's memory controller has not being kept up to date with the changes
going on in DRAMs. Classic's memory controller is more up to date and
supports multiple different types of DRAM. This also brings classic and
ruby ever more close. The patch also changes ruby's memory controller to
expose the same interface.


# 10096:e0167dda38dc 02-Mar-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: make the max_size variable of the MessageBuffer unsigned


# 10005:8c2b0dc16ccd 04-Jan-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: add support for clusters

A cluster over here means a set of controllers that can be accessed only by a
certain set of cores. For example, consider a two level hierarchy. Assume
there are 4 L1 controllers (private) and 2 L2 controllers. We can have two
different hierarchies here:

a. the address space is partitioned between the two L2 controllers. Each L1
controller accesses both the L2 controllers. In this case, each L1 controller
is a cluster initself.

b. both the L2 controllers can cache any address. An L1 controller has access
to only one of the L2 controllers. In this case, each L2 controller
along with the L1 controllers that access it, form a cluster.

This patch allows for each controller to have a cluster ID, which is 0 by
default. By setting the cluster ID properly, one can instantiate hierarchies
with clusters. Note that the coherence protocol might have to be changed as
well.


# 9595:470016acf37d 22-Mar-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: connect two controllers using only message buffers
This patch modifies ruby so that two controllers can be connected to each
other with only message buffers in between. Before this patch, all the
controllers had to be connected to the network for them to communicate
with each other. With this patch, one can have protocols where a controller
is not connected to the network, but communicates with another controller
through a message buffer.


# 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.


# 9338:97b4a2be1e5b 02-Nov-2012 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@arm.com>

sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfaces

When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses
classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can
degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a
forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for
most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is
used anywhere in the object hierarchy.

This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject
definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in
the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the
wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the
header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do
not use it.


# 8436:5648986156db 30-Jun-2011 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>, Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Add support for functional accesses
This patch rpovides functional access support in Ruby. Currently only
the M5Port of RubyPort supports functional accesses. The support for
functional through the PioPort will be added as a separate patch.


# 8257:7226aebb77b4 28-Apr-2011 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

network: convert links & switches to first class C++ SimObjects

This patch converts links and switches from second class simobjects that were
virtually ignored by the networks (both simple and Garnet) to first class
simobjects that directly correspond to c++ ojbects manipulated by the
topology and network classes. This is especially true for Garnet, where the
links and switches directly correspond to specific C++ objects.

By making this change, many aspects of the Topology class were simplified.


# 7019:a49fd5febdce 22-Mar-2010 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

ruby: Added copyright to many Ruby *.py files


# 6876:a658c315512c 29-Jan-2010 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

ruby: Convert most Ruby objects to M5 SimObjects.
The necessary companion conversion of Ruby objects generated by SLICC
are converted to M5 SimObjects in the following patch, so this patch
alone does not compile.
Conversion of Garnet network models is also handled in a separate
patch; that code is temporarily disabled from compiling to allow
testing of interim code.