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Description
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Changeset 11185:fc3ceeb4a47d
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ruby: Fixed pipeline squashes caused by aliased requests

This patch was created by Bihn Pham during his internship at AMD.

This patch fixes a very significant performance bug when using the O3 CPU model
and Ruby. The issue was Ruby returned false when it received a request to the
same address that already has an outstanding request or when the memory is
blocked. As a result, O3 unnecessary squashed the pipeline and re-executed
instructions. This fix merges readRequestTable and writeRequestTable in
Sequencer into a single request table that keeps track of all requests and
allows multiple outstanding requests to the same address. This prevents O3
from squashing the pipeline.


Diffs
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  src/mem/ruby/system/Sequencer.hh 4daf60db14d794e2344a6c86a93bdd8273bc5bb6 
  src/mem/ruby/system/Sequencer.cc 4daf60db14d794e2344a6c86a93bdd8273bc5bb6 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3179/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Tony Gutierrez

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