History log of /gem5/src/mem/cache/prefetch/irregular_stream_buffer.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13963:94555f0223ba 11-Apr-2019 Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use SatCounter for prefetchers

Many prefetchers re-implement saturating counters with ints. Make
them use SatCounters instead.

Added missing operators and constructors to SatCounter for that to
be possible and their respective tests.

Change-Id: I36f10c89c27c9b3d1bf461e9ea546920f6ebb888
Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17995
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Bueno Hedo <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13828:73addeac3dd3 02-Apr-2019 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>

mem-cache: ISB prefetcher was triggering an assertion

An assertion ignored the case when an entry of the SP table had been invalidated.

Change-Id: I5bf04e7a0979300b0f41f680c371f6397d4cbf3f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17734
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13669:24ef552b4d6d 05-Dec-2018 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>

mem-cache: Irregular Stream Buffer Prefetcher

Based in the description of the following publication:
Akanksha Jain and Calvin Lin. 2013. Linearizing irregular memory accesses
for improved correlated prefetching. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46). ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 247-259.

Change-Id: Ibeb6abc93ca40ad634df6ed5cf8becb0a49d1165
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15215
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>