Any chance this gets pushed through?

Thanks,
Amin


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Erik Tomusk <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Looks like a very useful patch. I think it just needs the predictor size
> redundancy removed.
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> src/cpu/pred/global.cc
> <http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1865/#comment4091>
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>     It looks like 2^globalHistoryBits = globalPredictorSize. Since
> globalHistoryBits was recently removed from the tournament predictor, it
> might be better to remove it as a parameter here as well and determine it
> from globalPredictorSize. Alternatively, the relationship between the two
> parameters must be enforced to avoid seg faults.
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> src/cpu/pred/global.cc
> <http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1865/#comment4092>
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>     This could walk off the array (see above comment).
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> src/cpu/pred/global.cc
> <http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1865/#comment4093>
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>     These updates can also walk off the array (see above).
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> - Erik Tomusk
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> On May 10, 2013, 10:29 a.m., Taylor Lloyd wrote:
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> > (Updated May 10, 2013, 10:29 a.m.)
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> > Review request for Default.
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> > Description
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> >
> > This patch adds a global-global (gAG) branch predictor, used by
> specifying the "global" predType.
> > From BranchPredictor, it uses the following variables for configuration:
> >  - globalPredictorSize
> >  - globalCtrBits
> >  - globalHistoryBits
> >
> > As such, it may conflict with the ongoing effort to factor out the
> redundant variable in the predictors.
> >
> >
> > Diffs
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> >
> >   src/cpu/pred/SConscript 00dca8a9b560
> >   src/cpu/pred/bpred_unit.cc 00dca8a9b560
> >   src/cpu/pred/global.hh PRE-CREATION
> >   src/cpu/pred/global.cc PRE-CREATION
> >
> > Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1865/diff/
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> >
> > Testing
> > -------
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> > Prior to submission, this was tested by building build/ARM/gem5.debug,
> and run against a subset of the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks. Statistics
> generated seem valid, and it caused no execution errors.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Taylor Lloyd
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