I noticed that miss and hit count are done in access(). That is fine. However what I don't understand is that why *allocateBlock()* is called in access()?
If it has a reason, then what is handleFill() ? Thanks for any suggestion On 4/12/12, Mahmood Naderan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > There is something vague in cache_impl.hh. There is a access function > in timingAccess(): > bool satisfied = access(pkt, blk, lat, writebacks); > > This function will call > blk = allocateBlock(pkt->getAddr(), writebacks); > > within that, a victim is selected > BlkType *blk = tags->findVictim(addr, writebacks); > > The question is why a victim is selected on a cache access? Don't we > have handleFill()? > > In another word, when a block is being accessed, we favor only true or > false. Selecting a victim for replacement is done in another function > which is named handleFill() > > I think this is redundant action. Can someone clarify that? > -- > // Naderan *Mahmood; > -- -- // Naderan *Mahmood; _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
