History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/Topology.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13661:c6e84ef6a309 19-Jan-2019 Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu>

mem-ruby: Fixing Topology

The constructor assumes the number of nodes (i.e. controllers) equal to
the number of external nodes.
This is a not necessarily valid for all cases (e.g MESI_Three_Level -
where L0s are directly connected to L1s).
MachineType_base_number(MachineType_NUM) provides the total number of
controllers.

Signed-off-by: Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu>
Change-Id: Id906099dc967ec70aa34dedb0b55351031ff242c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15716
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

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


# 11664:2365e9e396f7 06-Oct-2016 Tushar Krishna <tushar@ece.gatech.edu>

config: add port directions and per-router delay in topology.
This patch adds port direction names to the links during topology
creation, which can be used for better printed names for the links
or for users to code up their own adaptive routing algorithms.
It also adds support for every router to have an independent latency
value to support heterogeneous topologies with the subsequent
garnet2.0 patch.


# 11663:cf870cd20cfc 06-Oct-2016 Tushar Krishna <tushar@ece.gatech.edu>

config: make internal links in network topology unidirectional.
This patch makes the internal links within the network topology
unidirectional, thus allowing any deadlock-free routing algorithms to
be specified from the topology itself using weights.
This patch also renames Mesh.py and MeshDirCorners.py to
Mesh_XY.py and MeshDirCorners_XY.py (Mesh with XY routing).
It also adds a Mesh_westfirst.py and CrossbarGarnet.py topologies.


# 11320:42ecb523c64a 06-Feb-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

style: remove trailing whitespace

Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.


# 11096:efaacec43726 14-Sep-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: topology: refactor code.


# 10086:bd1089db3a88 23-Feb-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: remove few not required #includes


# 10078:9400a90ec5d1 20-Feb-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: controller: slight code refactoring


# 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.


# 9869:a204694db4f9 11-Sep-2013 Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>

ruby: Fix Topology throttle connections

The Topology source sets up input and output buffers for each of the external
nodes of a topology by indexing on Ruby's generated controller unique IDs.
These unique IDs are found by adding the MachineType_base_number to the version
number of each controller (see any generated *_Controller.cc - init() calls
getToNetQueue and getFromNetQueue using m_version + base). However, the
Topology object used the cntrl_id - which is required to be unique across all
controllers - to index the controllers list as they are being connected to
their input and output buffers. If the cntrl_ids did not match the Ruby unique
ID, the throttles end up connected to incorrectly indexed nodes in the network,
resulting in packets traversing incorrect network paths. This patch fixes the
Topology indexing scheme by using the Ruby unique ID to match that of the
SimpleNetwork buffer vectors.


# 9799:5aed42e54180 28-Jun-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: remove reconfiguration code
This code seems not to be of any use now. There is no path in the simulator
that allows for reconfiguring the network. A better approach would be to
take a checkpoint and start the simulation from the checkpoint with the new
configuration.


# 9594:219ad5fe8c04 22-Mar-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: convert Topology to regular class
The Topology class in Ruby does not need to inherit from SimObject class.
This patch turns it into a regular class. The topology object is now created
in the constructor of the Network class. All the parameters for the topology
class have been moved to the network class.


# 9593:9441ca79f3c8 22-Mar-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: move routers from topology to network


# 9560:322472967603 19-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: remove unused variable m_print_config in class Topology


# 9496:28d88a0fda74 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: record fully busy cycle with in the controller
This patch does several things. First, the counter for fully busy cycles for a
controller is now kept with in the controller, instead of being part of the profiler.
Second, the topology class no longer keeps an array of controllers which was only
used for printing stats. Instead, ruby system will now ask each controller to print
the stats. Thirdly, the statistical variable for recording how many different types
were created is being moved in to the controller from the profiler. Note that for
printing, the profiler will collate results from different controllers.


# 9356:b279bad40aa3 16-Nov-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

sim: have a curTick per eventq
This patch adds a _curTick variable to an eventq. This variable is updated
whenever an event is serviced in function serviceOne(), or all events upto
a particular time are processed in function serviceEvents(). This change
helps when there are eventqs that do not make use of curTick for scheduling
events.


# 9274:ba635023d4bb 02-Oct-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: changes to simple network
This patch makes the Switch structure inherit from BasicRouter, as is
done in two other networks.


# 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.


# 9116:9171e26543fa 12-Jul-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: remove some unused stuff from SLICC files


# 9109:6bce09259194 11-Jul-2012 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

# User Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>
ruby: fixed fatal print statement


# 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.


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

Ruby: Remove files and includes not in use


# 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.


# 8255:73089f793a0a 28-Apr-2011 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

ruby: moved topology to the top network directory

Moved the Topology class to the top network directory because it is shared by
both the simple and Garnet networks.