On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Steve Reinhardt wrote: > src/cpu/simple/timing.cc > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/256/#comment499> > > I agree, prefetches should just never set fault to anything other than > NoFault. So how should the CPU know if it should actually execute the load or not?
Ali > src/cpu/simple/timing.cc > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/256/#comment500> > > So what happens with Alpha now? Does this cause an error? I think we > discussed this but I forgot the upshot. Seems like the Alpha prefetches > should at least get a warn_once() or something. Alpha does a whole lot of nothing on a prefetch. An EA is calculated, but it's never translated or sent to the memory system. Ali _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
