History log of /gem5/src/mem/bridge.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 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>


# 13799:15badf7874ee 19-Mar-2019 Andrea Mondelli <Andrea.Mondelli@ucf.edu>

misc: missing override specifier

Missing specifier of overridden virtual function
declared in sim_object.hh

Removed redundant "virtual" keyword

Change-Id: I42aa3349b537c9e62607bce20cf1b3aabdb99bf2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17468
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 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>


# 12823:ba630bc7a36d 19-Jul-2018 Robert Kovacsics <rmk35@cl.cam.ac.uk>

mem: Rename Packet::checkFunctional to trySatisfyFunctional

Packet::checkFunctional also wrote data to/from the packet depending
on if it was read/write, respectively, which the 'check' in the name
would suggest otherwise. This renames it to doFunctional, which is
more suggestive. It also renames any function called checkFunctional
which calls Packet::checkFunctional. These are

- Bridge::BridgeMasterPort::checkFunctional
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MSHR::checkFunctional
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MSHR::TargetList::checkFunctional
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- Queue<>::checkFunctional
(of src/mem/cache/queue.hh, not src/cpu/minor/buffers.h)
- Instantiated with Queue<WriteQueueEntry> and Queue<MSHR>
- WriteQueueEntry
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- WriteQueueEntry::TargetList
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MemDelay::checkFunctional
- calls QueuedSlavePort/QueuedMasterPort::checkFunctional
- Packet::checkFunctional
- PacketQueue::checkFunctional
- calls Packet::checkFunctional
- QueuedSlavePort::checkFunctional
- calls PacketQueue::doFunctional
- QueuedMasterPort::checkFunctional
- calls PacketQueue::doFunctional
- SerialLink::SerialLinkMasterPort::checkFunctional
- calls Packet::doFunctional

Change-Id: Ieca2579c020c329040da053ba8e25820801b62c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11810
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12084:5a3769ff3d55 07-Jun-2017 Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>

mem: Replace EventWrapper use with EventFunctionWrapper

NOTE: With this change there is a possibility for `DRAMCtrl::Rank`s
event names to not properly match the rank they were generated by. This
could occur if the public rank member is modified after the Rank's
construction. A patch would mean refactoring Rank and `DRAMCtrl`b to
privatize many of the members of Rank behind getters.

Change-Id: I7b8bd15086f4ffdfd3f40be4aeddac5e786fd78e
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3745
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 11192:4c28abcf8249 06-Nov-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Align rules for sinking inhibited packets at the slave

This patch aligns how the memory-system slaves, i.e. the various
memory controllers and the bridge, identify and deal with sinking of
inhibited packets that are only useful within the coherent part of the
memory system.

In the future we could shift the onus to the crossbar, and add a
parameter "is_point_of_coherence" that would allow it to sink the
aforementioned packets.


# 10713:eddb533708cb 02-Mar-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes

This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow
control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all
different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get
stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv
functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in
stress-test scenarios.

The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus,
sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has
recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply
clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting.

The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet
queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop
responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own
flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes
the previously seen deadlocks.


# 10658:1de300588c4f 22-Jan-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Remove unused RequestState in the bridge

This patch removes the bridge sender state as the Crossbar now takes
care of remembering its own routing decisions.


# 10405:7a618c07e663 20-Sep-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Rename Bus to XBar to better reflect its behaviour

This patch changes the name of the Bus classes to XBar to better
reflect the actual timing behaviour. The actual instances in the
config scripts are not renamed, and remain as e.g. iobus or membus.

As part of this renaming, the code has also been clean up slightly,
making use of range-based for loops and tidying up some comments. The
only changes outside the bus/crossbar code is due to the delay
variables in the packet.


# 9786:03a075377221 27-Jun-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Tidy up the bridge with const and additional checks

This patch does a bit of tidying up in the bridge code, adding const
where appropriate and also removing redundant checks and adding a few
new ones.

There are no changes to the behaviour of any regressions.


# 9542:683991c46ac8 19-Feb-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Add predecessor to SenderState base class

This patch adds a predecessor field to the SenderState base class to
make the process of linking them up more uniform, and enable a
traversal of the stack without knowing the specific type of the
subclasses.

There are a number of simplifications done as part of changing the
SenderState, particularly in the RubyTest.


# 9294:8fb03b13de02 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchy

This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance
hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic
parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now
confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the
protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it
will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations.

The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort
now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use
the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.


# 9235:5aa4896ed55a 19-Sep-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

AddrRange: Transition from Range<T> to AddrRange

This patch takes the final plunge and transitions from the templated
Range class to the more specific AddrRange. In doing so it changes the
obvious Range<Addr> to AddrRange, and also bumps the range_map to be
AddrRangeMap.

In addition to the obvious changes, including the removal of redundant
includes, this patch also does some house keeping in preparing for the
introduction of address interleaving support in the ranges. The Range
class is also stripped of all the functionality that is never used.


# 9180:ee8d7a51651d 28-Aug-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Clock: Add a Cycles wrapper class and use where applicable

This patch addresses the comments and feedback on the preceding patch
that reworks the clocks and now more clearly shows where cycles
(relative cycle counts) are used to express time.

Instead of bumping the existing patch I chose to make this a separate
patch, merely to try and focus the discussion around a smaller set of
changes. The two patches will be pushed together though.

This changes done as part of this patch are mostly following directly
from the introduction of the wrapper class, and change enough code to
make things compile and run again. There are definitely more places
where int/uint/Tick is still used to represent cycles, and it will
take some time to chase them all down. Similarly, a lot of parameters
should be changed from Param.Tick and Param.Unsigned to
Param.Cycles.

In addition, the use of curTick is questionable as there should not be
an absolute cycle. Potential solutions can be built on top of this
patch. There is a similar situation in the o3 CPU where
lastRunningCycle is currently counting in Cycles, and is still an
absolute time. More discussion to be had in other words.

An additional change that would be appropriate in the future is to
perform a similar wrapping of Tick and probably also introduce a
Ticks class along with suitable operators for all these classes.


# 9164:d112473185ea 22-Aug-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Bridge: Remove NACKs in the bridge and unify with packet queue

This patch removes the NACKing in the bridge, as the split
request/response busses now ensure that protocol deadlocks do not
occur, i.e. the message-dependency chain is broken by always allowing
responses to make progress without being stalled by requests. The
NACKs had limited support in the system with most components ignoring
their use (with a suitable call to panic), and as the NACKs are no
longer needed to avoid protocol deadlocks, the cleanest way is to
simply remove them.

The bridge is the starting point as this is the only place where the
NACKs are created. A follow-up patch will remove the code that deals
with NACKs in the endpoints, e.g. the X86 table walker and DMA
port. Ultimately the type of packet can be complete removed (until
someone sees a need for modelling more complex protocols, which can
now be done in parts of the system since the port and interface is
split).

As a consequence of the NACK removal, the bridge now has to send a
retry to a master if the request or response queue was full on the
first attempt. This change also makes the bridge ports very similar to
QueuedPorts, and a later patch will change the bridge to use these. A
first step in this direction is taken by aligning the name of the
member functions, as done by this patch.

A bit of tidying up has also been done as part of the simplifications.

Surprisingly, this patch has no impact on any of the
regressions. Hence, there was never any NACKs issued. In a follow-up
patch I would suggest changing the size of the bridge buffers set in
FSConfig.py to also test the situation where the bridge fills up.


# 9128:6921ec2e77c4 23-Jul-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Bridge: Use EventWrapper instead of Event subclass for sendEvent

This class simply cleans up the code by making use of the EventWrapper
convenience class to schedule the sendEvent in the bridge ports.


# 9090:e4e22240398f 09-Jul-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Make getAddrRanges const

This patch makes getAddrRanges const throughout the code base. There
is no reason why it should not be, and making it const prevents adding
any unintentional side-effects.


# 9044:904ddeecc653 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: Remove FastAlloc

While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular malloc it isn't thread safe.
After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 12% over libc malloc
when running twolf for ARM.


# 9031:32ecc0217c5e 30-May-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Packet: Unify the use of PortID in packet and port

This patch removes the Packet::NodeID typedef and unifies it with the
Port::PortId. The src and dest fields in the packet are used to hold a
port id (e.g. in the bus), and thus the two should actually be the
same.

The typedef PortID is now global (in base/types.hh) and aligned with
the ThreadID in terms of capitalisation and naming of the
InvalidPortID constant.

Before this patch, two flags were used for valid destination and
source, rather than relying on a named value (InvalidPortID), and
this is now redundant, as the src and dest field themselves are
sufficient to tell whether the current value is a valid port
identifier or not. Consequently, the VALID_SRC and VALID_DST are
removed.

As part of the cleaning up, a number of int parameters and local
variables are updated to use PortID.

Note that Ruby still has its own NodeID typedef. Furthermore, the
MemObject getMaster/SlavePort still has an int idx parameter with a
default value of -1 which should eventually change to PortID idx =
InvalidPortID.


# 9029:120ba616606e 30-May-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Bridge: Split deferred request, response and sender state

This patch splits the PacketBuffer class into a RequestState and a
DeferredRequest and DeferredResponse. Only the requests need a
SenderState, and the deferred requests and responses only need an
associated point in time for the request and the response queue.

Besides the cleaning up, the goal is to simplify the transition to a
new port handshake, and with these changes, the two packet queues are
starting to look very similar to the generic packet queue, but
currently they do a few unique things relating to the NACK and
counting of requests/responses that the packet queue cannot be
conveniently used. This will be addressed in a later patch.


# 8975:7f36d4436074 01-May-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Separate requests and responses for timing accesses

This patch moves send/recvTiming and send/recvTimingSnoop from the
Port base class to the MasterPort and SlavePort, and also splits them
into separate member functions for requests and responses:
send/recvTimingReq, send/recvTimingResp, and send/recvTimingSnoopReq,
send/recvTimingSnoopResp. A master port sends requests and receives
responses, and also receives snoop requests and sends snoop
responses. A slave port has the reciprocal behaviour as it receives
requests and sends responses, and sends snoop requests and receives
snoop responses.

For all MemObjects that have only master ports or slave ports (but not
both), e.g. a CPU, or a PIO device, this patch merely adds more
clarity to what kind of access is taking place. For example, a CPU
port used to call sendTiming, and will now call
sendTimingReq. Similarly, a response previously came back through
recvTiming, which is now recvTimingResp. For the modules that have
both master and slave ports, e.g. the bus, the behaviour was
previously relying on branches based on pkt->isRequest(), and this is
now replaced with a direct call to the apprioriate member function
depending on the type of access. Please note that send/recvRetry is
still shared by all the timing accessors and remains in the Port base
class for now (to maintain the current bus functionality and avoid
changing the statistics of all regressions).

The packet queue is split into a MasterPort and SlavePort version to
facilitate the use of the new timing accessors. All uses of the
PacketQueue are updated accordingly.

With this patch, the type of packet (request or response) is now well
defined for each type of access, and asserts on pkt->isRequest() and
pkt->isResponse() are now moved to the appropriate send member
functions. It is also worth noting that sendTimingSnoopReq no longer
returns a boolean, as the semantics do not alow snoop requests to be
rejected or stalled. All these assumptions are now excplicitly part of
the port interface itself.


# 8949:3fa1ee293096 14-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Remove the Broadcast destination from the packet

This patch simplifies the packet by removing the broadcast flag and
instead more firmly relying on (and enforcing) the semantics of
transactions in the classic memory system, i.e. request packets are
routed from a master to a slave based on the address, and when they
are created they have neither a valid source, nor destination. On
their way to the slave, the request packet is updated with a source
field for all modules that multiplex packets from multiple master
(e.g. a bus). When a request packet is turned into a response packet
(at the final slave), it moves the potentially populated source field
to the destination field, and the response packet is routed through
any multiplexing components back to the master based on the
destination field.

Modules that connect multiplexing components, such as caches and
bridges store any existing source and destination field in the sender
state as a stack (just as before).

The packet constructor is simplified in that there is no longer a need
to pass the Packet::Broadcast as the destination (this was always the
case for the classic memory system). In the case of Ruby, rather than
using the parameter to the constructor we now rely on setDest, as
there is already another three-argument constructor in the packet
class.

In many places where the packet information was printed as part of
DPRINTFs, request packets would be printed with a numeric "dest" that
would always be -1 (Broadcast) and that field is now removed from the
printing.


# 8948:e95ee70f876c 14-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Separate snoops and normal memory requests/responses

This patch introduces port access methods that separates snoop
request/responses from normal memory request/responses. The
differentiation is made for functional, atomic and timing accesses and
builds on the introduction of master and slave ports.

Before the introduction of this patch, the packets belonging to the
different phases of the protocol (request -> [forwarded snoop request
-> snoop response]* -> response) all use the same port access
functions, even though the snoop packets flow in the opposite
direction to the normal packet. That is, a coherent master sends
normal request and receives responses, but receives snoop requests and
sends snoop responses (vice versa for the slave). These two distinct
phases now use different access functions, as described below.

Starting with the functional access, a master sends a request to a
slave through sendFunctional, and the request packet is turned into a
response before the call returns. In a system without cache coherence,
this is all that is needed from the functional interface. For the
cache-coherent scenario, a slave also sends snoop requests to coherent
masters through sendFunctionalSnoop, with responses returned within
the same packet pointer. This is currently used by the bus and caches,
and the LSQ of the O3 CPU. The send/recvFunctional and
send/recvFunctionalSnoop are moved from the Port super class to the
appropriate subclass.

Atomic accesses follow the same flow as functional accesses, with
request being sent from master to slave through sendAtomic. In the
case of cache-coherent ports, a slave can send snoop requests to a
master through sendAtomicSnoop. Just as for the functional access
methods, the atomic send and receive member functions are moved to the
appropriate subclasses.

The timing access methods are different from the functional and atomic
in that requests and responses are separated in time and
send/recvTiming are used for both directions. Hence, a master uses
sendTiming to send a request to a slave, and a slave uses sendTiming
to send a response back to a master, at a later point in time. Snoop
requests and responses travel in the opposite direction, similar to
what happens in functional and atomic accesses. With the introduction
of this patch, it is possible to determine the direction of packets in
the bus, and no longer necessary to look for both a master and a slave
port with the requested port id.

In contrast to the normal recvFunctional, recvAtomic and recvTiming
that are pure virtual functions, the recvFunctionalSnoop,
recvAtomicSnoop and recvTimingSnoop have a default implementation that
calls panic. This is to allow non-coherent master and slave ports to
not implement these functions.


# 8922:17f037ad8918 30-Mar-2012 William Wang <william.wang@arm.com>

MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++

This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++
code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python
classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects.

The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add
assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two
interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master
port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations
are to come in later patches.

The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and
returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be
a valid return value. The default implementation of these two
functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal.

The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some
code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and
QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort
(avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the
port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a
lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.


# 8851:7e966326ef5b 24-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Move port creation to the memory object(s) construction

This patch moves all port creation from the getPort method to be
consistently done in the MemObject's constructor. This is possible
thanks to the Swig interface passing the length of the vector ports.
Previously there was a mix of: 1) creating the ports as members (at
object construction time) and using getPort for the name resolution,
or 2) dynamically creating the ports in the getPort call. This is now
uniform. Furthermore, objects that would not be complete without a
port have these ports as members rather than having pointers to
dynamically allocated ports.

This patch also enables an elaboration-time enumeration of all the
ports in the system which can be used to determine the masterId.


# 8713:2f1a3e335255 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Make the bus bridge unidirectional and fixed address range

This patch makes the bus bridge uni-directional and specialises the
bus ports to be a master port and a slave port. This greatly
simplifies the assumptions on both sides as either port only has to
deal with requests or responses. The following patches introduce the
notion of master and slave ports, and would not be possible without
this split of responsibilities.

In making the bridge unidirectional, the address range mechanism of
the bridge is also changed. For the cases where communication is
taking place both ways, an additional bridge is needed. This causes
issues with the existing mechanism, as the busses cannot determine
when to stop iterating the address updates from the two bridges. To
avoid this issue, and also greatly simplify the specification, the
bridge now has a fixed set of address ranges, specified at creation
time.


# 8711:c7e14f52c682 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Separate queries for snooping and address ranges

This patch simplifies the address-range determination mechanism and
also unifies the naming across ports and devices. It further splits
the queries for determining if a port is snooping and what address
ranges it responds to (aiming towards a separation of
cache-maintenance ports and pure memory-mapped ports). Default
behaviours are such that most ports do not have to define isSnooping,
and master ports need not implement getAddrRanges.


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

includes: sort all includes


# 6215:9aed64c9f10f 17-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

includes: use base/types.hh not inttypes.h or stdint.h


# 5606:6da7a58b0bc8 09-Oct-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

eventq: convert all usage of events to use the new API.
For now, there is still a single global event queue, but this is
necessary for making the steps towards a parallelized m5.


# 5386:5614618f4027 24-Mar-2008 Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>

Don't FastAlloc MSHRs since we don't allocate them on the fly.


# 5336:c7e21f4e5a2e 06-Feb-2008 Stephen Hines <hines@cs.fsu.edu>

Make the Event::description() a const function


# 5012:c0a28154d002 27-Aug-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge with head


# 4986:b7c82ad6b3ef 24-Aug-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Mem: Make errors in the memory system be responses, not requests. Fixes cache handling of error responses.


# 4965:ad0e792a5c78 10-Aug-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

DMA: Add IOCache and fix bus bridge to optionally only send requests one
way so a cache can handle partial block requests for i/o devices.


# 4918:3214e3694fb2 27-Jul-2007 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

Merge python and x86 changes with cache branch


# 4873:b135f6e6adfe 30-Jun-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Event descriptions should not end in "event"
(they function as adjectives not nouns)


# 4870:fcc39d001154 30-Jun-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Get rid of Packet result field. Error responses are
now encoded in cmd field.


# 4762:c94e103c83ad 24-Jul-2007 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

Major changes to how SimObjects are created and initialized. Almost all
creation and initialization now happens in python. Parameter objects
are generated and initialized by python. The .ini file is now solely for
debugging purposes and is not used in construction of the objects in any
way.


# 4475:fb185cc1c845 22-May-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Change getDeviceAddressRanges to use bool for snoop arg.


# 4454:8125c4b9e306 15-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

hopefully the final hacky change to make the bus bridge work ok
cache blocks that get dmaed ARE NOT marked invalid in the caches so it's a performance issue here

src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
hopefully the final hacky change to make the bus bridge work ok


# 4451:bfb7c7c0b7ea 14-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

add uglyiness to fix dmas

src/dev/io_device.cc:
extra printing and assertions
src/mem/bridge.hh:
deal with packets only satisfying part of a request by making many requests
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
make the cache try to satisfy a functional request from the cache above it before checking itself


# 4450:54dbcf524f0b 13-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

fix handling of atomic packets
fix up code for counting requests and responses


# 4435:7da241055348 09-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

add a backoff algorithm when nacks are received by devices
add seperate response buffers and request queue sizes in bus bridge
add delay to respond to a nack in the bus bridge

src/dev/i8254xGBe.cc:
src/dev/ide_ctrl.cc:
src/dev/ns_gige.cc:
src/dev/pcidev.hh:
src/dev/sinic.cc:
add backoff delay parameters
src/dev/io_device.cc:
src/dev/io_device.hh:
add a backoff algorithm when nacks are received.
src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
add seperate response buffers and request queue sizes
add a new parameters to specify how long before a nack in ready to go after a packet that needs to be nacked is received
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
assert on the
src/mem/tport.cc:
add a friendly assert to make sure the packet was inserted into the list


# 4433:4722c6787f69 07-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

the bridge never returns false when recvTiming() is called on its ports now, it always returns true and nacks the packet if there isn't sufficient buffer space
fix the timing cpu to handle receiving a nacked packet

src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
make the timing cpu handle receiving a nacked packet
src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
the bridge never returns false when recvTiming() is called on its ports now, it always returns true and nacks the packet if there isn't sufficient buffer space


# 4432:5e55857abb01 07-May-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

fix partial writes with a functional memory hack
figure out the block size from devices attached to the bus otherwise use a default block size when no devices that care are attached

configs/common/FSConfig.py:
src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
src/python/m5/objects/Bridge.py:
fix partial writes with a functional memory hack
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
src/python/m5/objects/Bus.py:
figure out the block size from devices attached to the bus otherwise use a default block size when no devices that care are attached
src/mem/packet.cc:
fix WriteInvalidateResp to not be a request that needs a response since it isn't
src/mem/port.hh:
by default return 0 for deviceBlockSize instead of panicing. This makes finding the block size the bus should use easier


# 3349:fec4a86fa212 20-Oct-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Use PacketPtr everywhere


# 2982:0ecdb0879b14 14-Aug-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Fix up doxygen.


# 2738:5d7a31c7fa29 13-Jun-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Move SimObject creation and Port connection loops
into Python.
Add Port and VectorPort objects and support for
specifying port connections via assignment.
The whole C++ ConfigNode hierarchy is gone now, as are
C++ Connector objects.

configs/test/fs.py:
configs/test/test.py:
Rewrite for new port connector syntax.
src/SConscript:
Remove unneeded files:
- mem/connector.*
- sim/config*
src/dev/io_device.hh:
src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
src/mem/mem_object.hh:
src/mem/physical.cc:
src/mem/physical.hh:
Allow getPort() to take an optional index to
support vector ports (eventually).
src/python/m5/__init__.py:
Move SimObject construction and port connection
operations into Python (with C++ calls).
src/python/m5/config.py:
Move SimObject construction and port connection
operations into Python (with C++ calls).
Add support for declaring and connecting MemObject
ports in Python.
src/python/m5/objects/Bus.py:
src/python/m5/objects/PhysicalMemory.py:
Add port declaration.
src/sim/builder.cc:
src/sim/builder.hh:
src/sim/serialize.cc:
src/sim/serialize.hh:
ConfigNodes are gone; builder just gets the
name of a .ini file section now.
src/sim/main.cc:
Move SimObject construction and port connection
operations into Python (with C++ calls).
Split remaining initialization operations into two parts,
loadIniFile() and finalInit().
src/sim/param.cc:
src/sim/param.hh:
SimObject resolution done globally in Python now
(not via ConfigNode hierarchy).
src/sim/sim_object.cc:
Remove unneeded #include.


# 2665:a124942bacb8 31-May-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Updated Authors from bk prs info


# 2657:b119b774656b 30-May-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Add a very poor implementation of dealing with retries on timing requests. It is especially slow with tracing on since
it ends up being O(N^2). But it's probably going to have to change for the real bus anyway, so it should be rewritten then
Change recvRetry() to not accept a packet. Sendtiming should be called again (and can respond with false or true)
Removed Port Blocked/Unblocked and replaced with sendRetry().
Remove possibility of packet mangling if packet is going to be refused anyway in bridge

src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
src/cpu/simple/timing.hh:
Change recvRetry() to not accept a packet. Sendtiming should be called again (and can respond with false or true)
src/dev/io_device.cc:
src/dev/io_device.hh:
Make DMA Timing requests/responses work.
Change recvRetry() to not accept a packet. Sendtiming should be called again (and can respond with false or true)
src/mem/bridge.cc:
src/mem/bridge.hh:
Change recvRetry() to not accept a packet. Sendtiming should be called again (and can respond with false or true)
Removed Port Blocked/Unblocked and replaced with sendRetry().
Remove posibility of packet mangling if packet is going to be refused anyway.
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
Add a very poor implementation of dealing with retries on timing requests. It is especially slow with tracing on since
it ends up being O(N^2). But it's probably going to have to change for the real bus anyway, so it should be rewritten then
src/mem/port.hh:
Change recvRetry() to not accept a packet. Sendtiming should be called again (and can respond with false or true)
Removed Blocked/Unblocked port status, their functionality is really duplicated in the recvRetry() method


# 2643:67ac7b611c56 26-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Reorganize bridge as pair of cooperating ports.
Store original source & senderState for timing packets
that get a response, so we can properly route the
response packet back to the original sender.


# 2640:266b80dd5eca 26-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Add names to memory Port objects for tracing.


# 2632:1bb2f91485ea 22-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

New directory structure:
- simulator source now in 'src' subdirectory
- imported files from 'ext' repository
- support building in arbitrary places, including
outside of the source tree. See comment at top
of SConstruct file for more details.
Regression tests are temporarily disabled; that
syetem needs more extensive revisions.

SConstruct:
Update for new directory structure.
Modify to support build trees that are not subdirectories
of the source tree. See comment at top of file for
more details.
Regression tests are temporarily disabled.
src/arch/SConscript:
src/arch/isa_parser.py:
src/python/SConscript:
Update for new directory structure.