Re: [gem5-users] About enabling the prefetcher for L1 and L2

[biswabandan panda]

thats not true. You can fiind prefetched blocks at L2 also.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Mahmood Naderan <mahmood...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
> Assume the prefetcher is enabled for L1 and L2. When L1 issue 'X', it
> checks L2 for that address. Also assume that L2 misses. MM replies to
> L2 with a BLK containing 'X'. Then L2 replies to L1 and pass BLK.
>
> While debugging, I noticed that BLK is set to "prefetched" only in L1.
> In another word, L2 treats BLK as a regular block.
>
> Is this implementation correct? I think that BLK should be marked as
> "prefetched" in L2 too.
>
> Do you have any comment?
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