History log of /gem5/src/mem/ruby/network/simple/Throttle.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 11108:6342ddf6d733 16-Sep-2015 David Hashe <david.hashe@amd.com>

ruby: rename System.{hh,cc} to RubySystem.{hh,cc}

The eventual aim of this change is to pass RubySystem pointers through to
objects generated from the SLICC protocol code.

Because some of these objects need to dereference their RubySystem pointers,
they need access to the System.hh header file.

In src/mem/ruby/SConscript, the MakeInclude function creates single-line header
files in the build directory that do nothing except include the corresponding
header file from the source tree.

However, SLICC also generates a list of header files from its symbol table, and
writes it to mem/protocol/Types.hh in the build directory. This code assumes
that the header file name is the same as the class name.

The end result of this is the many of the generated slicc files try to include
RubySystem.hh, when the file they really need is System.hh. The path of least
resistence is just to rename System.hh to RubySystem.hh.


# 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


# 10920:58fbfddff18d 10-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

ruby: replace global g_abs_controls with per-RubySystem var

This is another step in the process of removing global variables
from Ruby to enable multiple RubySystem instances in a single simulation.

The list of abstract controllers is per-RubySystem and should be
represented that way, rather than as a global.

Since this is the last remaining Ruby global variable, the
src/mem/ruby/Common/Global.* files are also removed.


# 10918:dd3ab1f109ad 10-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

ruby: replace g_ruby_start with per-RubySystem m_start_cycle

This patch begins the process of removing global variables from the Ruby
source with the goal of eventually allowing users to create multiple Ruby
instances in a single simulation. Currently, users cannot do so because
several global variables and static members are referenced by the RubySystem
object in a way that assumes that there will only ever be a single RubySystem.
These need to be replaced with per-RubySystem equivalents.

This specific patch replaces the global var g_ruby_start, which is used
to calculate throughput statistics for Throttles in simple networks and
links in Garnet networks, with a RubySystem instance var m_start_cycle.


# 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.


# 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


# 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.


# 9506:f5335ac67f41 10-Feb-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

ruby: replace Time with Cycles in garnet fixed and flexible


# 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.


# 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.


# 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.


# 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.


# 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.


# 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


# 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


# 7055:4e24742201d7 02-Apr-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

ruby: get "using namespace" out of headers
In addition to obvious changes, this required a slight change to the slicc
grammar to allow types with :: in them. Otherwise slicc barfs on std::string
which we need for the headers that slicc generates.


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

style: another ruby style pass


# 7024:30883414ad10 22-Mar-2010 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com>

ruby: Finally removed bash code cira. 2001ish!


# 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.