> On Feb. 6, 2015, 8:18 a.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
> > It think there are more (and bigger issues) at play here. I'd suggest to 
> > try this out with: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2626/
> > 
> > If you run it with "-p", prefetches enabled, it doesn't take many seconds 
> > before it hits an assert. We're working on fixing it, and #2626 is a step 
> > on the way.
> 
> Steve Reinhardt wrote:
>     Hi Andreas,
>     
>     Are you saying that you will be coming out with a patch soon that will 
> subsume this one?  I don't doubt that there are more bugs to be fixed, but 
> this patch most definitely fixes one of them (the one that George was running 
> into, and the only one he's run into so far).  I'm fine with holding off if a 
> more comprehensive fix is imminent, but on the other hand I don't want to not 
> fix one bug just because the patch fails to fix all the bugs...

A more comprehensive fix is on the way and I think we should have it on RB next 
week.


- Andreas


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On Feb. 6, 2015, 12:38 a.m., Steve Reinhardt wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 6, 2015, 12:38 a.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Default.
> 
> 
> Repository: gem5
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> 
> Description
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> Changeset 10683:3147f3a868f7
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> mem: fix prefetcher bug regarding write buffer hits
> 
> Prefetches are supposed to be squashed if the block is already
> present in a higher-level cache.  We squash appropriately if
> the block is in a higher-level cache or MSHR, but did not
> properly handle the case where the block is in the write buffer.
> 
> Thanks to George Michelogiannakis <[email protected]> for
> help in tracking down and testing this fix.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh 3d17366c0423a59478ae63d40c8feeea34df218a 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2636/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Reinhardt
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