History log of /gem5/src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13784:1941dc118243 07-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, cpu, dev, gpu, mem, sim, python: start using getPort.

Replace the getMasterPort, getSlavePort, and getEthPort functions
with getPort, and remove extraneous mechanisms that are no longer
necessary.

Change-Id: Iab7e3c02d2f3a0cf33e7e824e18c28646b5bc318
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17040
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13766:4ecebdee8da4 06-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

dev: Turn EtherObject into an interface class.

This class used to drive from SimObject so that it could be derived
from to get both the interface and SimObject while still using single
inheritance.

With this change, EtherObject is now just an interface class with only
one pure virtual function which can be inherited alongside SimObject.
This makes it more flexible so that it can be used in places where you
might want a different inheritance hierarchy, for instance to inherit
from MemObject.

Change-Id: I0f07664d104eed012cf4ce6e30c416ada19505a7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17028
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11703:08b78e0a3717 26-Oct-2016 Michael LeBeane <michael.lebeane@amd.com>

dev: Add m5 op to toggle synchronization for dist-gem5.
This patch adds the ability for an application to request dist-gem5 to begin/
end synchronization using an m5 op. When toggling on sync, all nodes agree
on the next sync point based on the maximum of all nodes' ticks. CPUs are
suspended until the sync point to avoid sending network messages until sync has
been enabled. Toggling off sync acts like a global execution barrier, where
all CPUs are disabled until every node reaches the toggle off point. This
avoids tricky situations such as one node hitting a toggle off followed by a
toggle on before the other nodes hit the first toggle off.


# 11701:5e7599457b97 26-Oct-2016 mlebeane <michael.lebeane@amd.com>

dev: Add 'simLength' parameter in EthPacketData
Currently, all the network devices create a 16K buffer for the 'data' field
in EthPacketData, and use 'length' to keep track of the size of the packet
in the buffer. This patch introduces the 'simLength' parameter to
EthPacketData, which is used to hold the effective length of the packet used
for all timing calulations in the simulator. Serialization is performed using
only the useful data in the packet ('length') and not necessarily the entire
original buffer.


# 11290:1640dd68b0a4 07-Jan-2016 Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

dev: Distributed Ethernet link for distributed gem5 simulations

Distributed gem5 (abbreviated dist-gem5) is the result of the
convergence effort between multi-gem5 and pd-gem5 (from Univ. of
Wisconsin). It relies on the base multi-gem5 infrastructure for packet
forwarding, synchronisation and checkpointing but combines those with
the elaborated network switch model from pd-gem5.