History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/simple/PerfectSwitch.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

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


# 11093:8049ffff6d68 12-Sep-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: perfect switch: refactor code
Refactored the code in operateVnet(), moved partly to a new function
operateMessageBuffer(). This is required since a later patch moves to having a
wakeup event per MessageBuffer instead of one event for the entire Switch.


# 11092:a51ef09e3a78 12-Sep-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: simple network: store Switch* in PerfectSwitch and Throttle
There are two reasons for doing so:

a. provide a source of clock to PerfectSwitch. A follow on patch removes sender
and receiver pointers from MessageBuffer means that the object owning the
buffer should have some way of providing timing info.

b. schedule events. A follow on patch removes the consumer class. So the
PerfectSwitch needs some EventManager object to schedule events on its own.


# 11049:dfb0aa3f0649 19-Aug-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: reverts to changeset: bf82f1f7b040


# 11037:91d6a2d95cf8 14-Aug-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: simple network: store Switch* in PerfectSwitch and Throttle


# 11035:690ecdba9324 14-Aug-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: perfect switch: refactor code

Refactored the code in operateVnet(), moved partly to a new function
operateMessageBuffer().


# 10370:4466307b8a2a 15-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: revert some of the changes from ad9c042dce54
The changeset ad9c042dce54 made changes to the structures under the network
directory to use a map of buffers instead of vector of buffers.
The reasoning was that not all vnets that are created are used and we
needlessly allocate more buffers than required and then iterate over them
while processing network messages. But the move to map resulted in a slow
down which was pointed out by Andreas Hansson. This patch moves things
back to using vector of message buffers.


# 10312:08f4deeb5b48 01-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: PerfectSwitch: moves code to a per vnet helper function
This patch moves code from the wakeup() function to a operateVnet().
The aim is to improve the readiblity of the code.


# 10311:ad9c042dce54 01-Sep-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: message buffers: significant changes

This patch is the final patch in a series of patches. The aim of the series
is to make ruby more configurable than it was. More specifically, the
connections between controllers are not at all possible (unless one is ready
to make significant changes to the coherence protocol). Moreover the buffers
themselves are magically connected to the network inside the slicc code.
These connections are not part of the configuration file.

This patch makes changes so that these connections will now be made in the
python configuration files associated with the protocols. This requires
each state machine to expose the message buffers it uses for input and output.
So, the patch makes these buffers configurable members of the machines.

The patch drops the slicc code that usd to connect these buffers to the
network. Now these buffers are exposed to the python configuration system
as Master and Slave ports. In the configuration files, any master port
can be connected any slave port. The file pyobject.cc has been modified to
take care of allocating the actual message buffer. This is inline with how
other port connections work.


# 9863:9483739f83ee 06-Sep-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: convert to gem5 style stats


# 9554:406fbcf60223 19-Feb-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

scons: Add warning for missing declarations

This patch enables warnings for missing declarations. To avoid issues
with SWIG-generated code, the warning is only applied to non-SWIG
code.


# 9508:dde110931867 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: enable multiple clock domains
This patch allows ruby to have multiple clock domains. As I understand
with this patch, controllers can have different frequencies. The entire
network needs to run at a single frequency.

The idea is that with in an object, time is treated in terms of cycles.
But the messages that are passed from one entity to another should contain
the time in Ticks. As of now, this is only true for the message buffers,
but not for the links in the network. As I understand the code, all the
entities in different networks (simple, garnet-fixed, garnet-flexible) should
be clocked at the same frequency.

Another problem is that the directory controller has to operate at the same
frequency as the ruby system. This is because the memory controller does
not make use of the Message Buffer, and instead implements a buffer of its
own. So, it has no idea of the frequency at which the directory controller
is operating and uses ruby system's frequency for scheduling events.


# 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.


# 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.


# 8608:02d7ac5fb855 03-Nov-2011 Nilay Vaish<nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Remove some unused typedefs
This patch removes some of the unused typedefs. It also moves
some of the typedefs from Global.hh to TypeDefines.hh. The patch
also eliminates the file NodeID.hh.


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

includes: sort all includes


# 8054:9138d38eccd7 23-Feb-2011 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

ruby: cleaning up RubyQueue and RubyNetwork dprintfs
Overall, continue to progress Ruby debug messages to more of the normal M5
debug message style
- add a name() to the Ruby Throttle & PerfectSwitch objects so that the debug output
isn't littered w/"global:" everywhere.
- clean up messages that print over multiple lines when possible
- clean up duplicate prints in the message buffer


# 7973:e5550966464a 14-Feb-2011 Nilay Vaish<nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Ruby: Improve Change PerfectSwitch's wakeup function
Currently the wakeup function for the PerfectSwitch contains three loops -

loop on number of virtual networks
loop on number of incoming links
loop till all messages for this (link, network) have been routed

With an 8 processor mesh network and Hammer protocol, about 11-12% of the
was observed to have been spent in this function, which is the highest
amongst all the functions. It was found that the innermost loop is executed
about 45 times per invocation of the wakeup function, when each invocation
of the wakeup function processes just about one message.

The patch tries to do away with the redundant executions of the innermost
loop. Counters have been added for each virtual network that record the
number of messages that need to be routed for that virtual network. The
inner loops are only executed when the number of messages for that particular
virtual network > 0. This does away with almost 80% of the executions of the
innermost loop. The function now consumes about 5-6% of the total execution
time.


# 7454:3a3e8e8cce1b 11-Jun-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get rid of Vector and use STL
add a couple of helper functions to base for deleteing all pointers in
a container and outputting containers to a stream


# 7054:7d6862b80049 31-Mar-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

style: another ruby style pass


# 7002:48a19d52d939 10-Mar-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get rid of std-includes.hh
Do not use "using namespace std;" in headers
Include header files as needed


# 6154:6bb54dcb940e 11-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Make ruby #includes use full paths to the files they're including.
This basically means changing all #include statements and changing
autogenerated code so that it generates the correct paths. Because
slicc generates #includes, I had to hard code the include paths to
mem/protocol.


# 6145:15cca6ab723a 11-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Import ruby and slicc from GEMS

We eventually plan to replace the m5 cache hierarchy with the GEMS
hierarchy, but for now we will make both live alongside eachother.