History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/simple/Switch.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14184:11ac1337c5e2 16-Aug-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Move ruby protocols into a directory called ruby_protocol.

Now that the gem5 protocols are split out, it would be nice to put them
in their own protocol directory. It's also confusing to have files
called *_protocol which are not in the protocol directory.

Change-Id: I7475ee111630050a2421816dfd290921baab9f71
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20230
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 11021:e8a6637afa4c 14-Aug-2015 Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>

ruby: Expose MessageBuffers as SimObjects

Expose MessageBuffers from SLICC controllers as SimObjects that can be
manipulated in Python. This patch has numerous benefits:
1) First and foremost, it exposes MessageBuffers as SimObjects that can be
manipulated in Python code. This allows parameters to be set and checked in
Python code to avoid obfuscating parameters within protocol files. Further, now
as SimObjects, MessageBuffer parameters are printed to config output files as a
way to track parameters across simulations (e.g. buffer sizes)

2) Cleans up special-case code for responseFromMemory buffers, and aligns their
instantiation and use with mandatoryQueue buffers. These two special buffers
are the only MessageBuffers that are exposed to components outside of SLICC
controllers, and they're both slave ends of these buffers. They should be
exposed outside of SLICC in the same way, and this patch does it.

3) Distinguishes buffer-specific parameters from buffer-to-network parameters.
Specifically, buffer size, randomization, ordering, recycle latency, and ports
are all specific to a MessageBuffer, while the virtual network ID and type are
intrinsics of how the buffer is connected to network ports. The former are
specified in the Python object, while the latter are specified in the
controller *.sm files. Unlike buffer-specific parameters, which may need to
change depending on the simulated system structure, buffer-to-network
parameters can be specified statically for most or all different simulated
systems.


# 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.


# 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.


# 10076:f81d94b53661 20-Feb-2014 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: removes unused code.


# 9866:94dac7d7bb88 11-Sep-2013 Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>

ruby: Statically allocate stats in SimpleNetwork, Switch, Throttle

The previous changeset (9863:9483739f83ee) used STL vector containers to
dynamically allocate stats in the Ruby SimpleNetwork, Switch and Throttle. For
gcc versions before at least 4.6.3, this causes the standard vector allocator
to call Stats copy constructors (a no-no, since stats should be allocated in
the body of each SimObject instance). Since the size of these stats arrays is
known at compile time (NOTE: after code generation), this patch changes their
allocation to be static rather than using an STL vector.


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

ruby: network: convert to gem5 style stats


# 9858:f2417ecf5cc9 06-Sep-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: network: shorten variable names


# 9499:b03b556a8fbb 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: replaces Time with Cycles in many places
The patch started of with replacing Time with Cycles in the Consumer class.
But to get ruby to compile, the rest of the changes had to be carried out.
Subsequent patches will further this process, till we completely replace
Time with Cycles.


# 9389:8f8c911ab5a7 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

ruby: Fix missing cxx_header in Switch

This patch addresses a warning related to the swig interface
generation for the Switch class. The cxx_header is now specified
correctly, and the header in question has got a few includes added to
make it all compile.


# 9302:c2e70a9bc340 15-Oct-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: improved support for functional accesses
This patch adds support to different entities in the ruby memory system
for more reliable functional read/write accesses. Only the simple network
has been augmented as of now. Later on Garnet will also support functional
accesses.
The patch adds functional access code to all the different types of messages
that protocols can send around. These messages are functionally accessed
by going through the buffers maintained by the network entities.
The patch also rectifies some of the bugs found in coherence protocols while
testing the patch.

With this patch applied, functional writes always succeed. But functional
reads can still fail.


# 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.


# 9230:33eb3c8a98b9 18-Sep-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: avoid using g_system_ptr for event scheduling
This patch removes the use of g_system_ptr for event scheduling. Each consumer
object now needs to specify upfront an EventManager object it would use for
scheduling events. This makes the ruby memory system more amenable for a
multi-threaded simulation.


# 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.


# 8259:36987780169e 28-Apr-2011 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

network: moved network config params

Moved the buffer_size, endpoint_bandwidth, and adaptive_routing params out of
the top-level parent network object and to only those networks that actually
use those parameters.


# 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


# 6285:ce086eca1ede 06-Jul-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: Import the latest ruby changes from gems.
This was done with an automated process, so there could be things that were
done in this tree in the past that didn't make it. One known regression
is that atomic memory operations do not seem to work properly anymore.


# 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.