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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Tony Gutierrez


On July 12, 2016, 12:15 a.m., Andreas Sandberg wrote:
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> (Updated July 12, 2016, 12:15 a.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 11564:76718cb08673
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> mem: Use FromCache attribute in snoop filter allocation
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> This patch improves the snoop filter allocation decisions by not only
> looking at whether a port is snooping or not, but also if the packet
> actually came from a cache. The issue with only looking at isSnooping
> is that the CPU ports, for example, are snooping, but not actually
> caching. Previously we ended up incorrectly allocating entries in
> systems without caches (such as the atomic and timing quick
> regressions). Eventually these misguided allocations caused the snoop
> filter to panic due to an excessive size.
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> On the request path we now include the fromCache check on the packet
> itself, and for responses we check if we actually have a snoop-filter
> entry.
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> Change-Id: Idd2dbc4f00c7e07d331e9a02658aee30d0350d7e
> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <[email protected]>
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> Diffs
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>   src/mem/snoop_filter.cc f050b8cf4754 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3562/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sandberg
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