On Wed, May 30, 2012 7:54 am, mihai pricopi wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong but from what I understand from the
> documentation the interconnection network is tiled fashioned. That means
> each L2$ bank/tile has a node in the network which corresponds to the L1$.
> For a mash topology the number of nodes must be equal with the number of
> cores. My concern is that you cannot actually decide the LLC cache into
> multiple banks (e.g. 256) and then use garnet to interconnect them. Is
> this
> true?

No, this is not true. It is possible to re-write the mesh topology to
support any number of L2 cache banks, irrespective of the number of cores
in the system.

--
Nilay

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