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Are you assuming that physical memory size is a power of 2?

- Nilay Vaish


On July 14, 2015, 2:53 p.m., David Hashe wrote:
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> (Updated July 14, 2015, 2:53 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 10923:17785cb5a672
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> config: Fail if not using all L2 caches in ruby protocols
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> In the MESI_Three_Level, MESI_Two_Level, MOESI_CMP_directory, and 
> MOESI_CMP_token protocols, if the num_l2caches option is not a power of 2, 
> then all cache banks above the next lowest power of 2 are not addressed and 
> are never used (cache bank selection takes place in mapAddressToRange within 
> src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/RubySlicc_ComponentMapping).
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> This changeset adds asserts to the configuration files of the affected 
> protocols to make sure that num_l2caches is a power of 2.
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> A related behavior is documented in 
> http://gem5.org/Coherence-Protocol-Independent_Memory_Components#Parameters_3,
>  at the bottom of the section on start_index_bit.
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> Diffs
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>   configs/ruby/MESI_Three_Level.py 5ee72f4b293152dd0c75ab402a49696d6903e604 
>   configs/ruby/MESI_Two_Level.py 5ee72f4b293152dd0c75ab402a49696d6903e604 
>   configs/ruby/MOESI_CMP_directory.py 
> 5ee72f4b293152dd0c75ab402a49696d6903e604 
>   configs/ruby/MOESI_CMP_token.py 5ee72f4b293152dd0c75ab402a49696d6903e604 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2970/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Hashe
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