Umm... no the size is actually important. Imagine if you have an unaligned 8 byte load that crosses a page boundary.
Ali On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Korey Sewell wrote: > Well, > I dont think pretending to do the access would work for the TLB > necessarily. > > I can see that the actual size of the access is irrelevant for the > TLB translation (right?). Maybe we can work around that. > > But what about the type of access? That comes from the memory access > flags and the only object that knows those flags is the actual > instruction object. So that seems to be the big problem there. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM, nathan binkert <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That's a legitimate problem. Would it work to pretend to do the > access > > and save the request object for later? > > I think we should strive to do this. > > Nate > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > -- > ---------- > Korey L Sewell > Graduate Student - PhD Candidate > Computer Science & Engineering > University of Michigan > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
