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Ship it!


Sounds good. Out of curiosity, can you mention why these threshold numbers are 
good bulk values?

- Amin Farmahini


On March 7, 2014, 11:39 p.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
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> (Updated March 7, 2014, 11:39 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 10115:27efc3ce4b53
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> mem: Make DRAM write queue draining more aggressive
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> This patch changes the triggering condition for the write draining
> such that we grab the opportunity to issue writes if there are no
> reads waiting (as opposed to waiting for the writes to reach the high
> threshold). As a result, we potentially drain some of the writes in read
> idle periods (if any).
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> A low threshold is added to be able to control how many write bursts
> are kept in the memory controller queue (acting as on-chip storage).
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> The high and low thresholds are updated to sensible values for a 32/64
> size write buffer. Note that the thresholds should be adjusted along
> with the queue sizes.
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> This patch also adds some basic initialisation sanity checks and moves
> part of the initialisation to the constructor.
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> Diffs
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>   src/mem/SimpleDRAM.py 580b47334a97 
>   src/mem/simple_dram.hh 580b47334a97 
>   src/mem/simple_dram.cc 580b47334a97 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2193/diff/
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> Testing
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> All regressions pass with stats update
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Hansson
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