Hi, I make the InstQueue size to 1 to make sure inorder issue, but I did
not make any change to ROB because I think ROB doesn't harm anything. Did I
miss something here ? Thanks


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Korey Sewell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> Are you saying that registers are *not* being freed upon commit?
>
> Even with that being the case, if the ROB size is 1, then I don't see how
> there is a deadlock with since only a small subset of the physical
> registers are in flight at any given time.
>
> Maybe Xiangyang forgot to set his ROB/InstQueue sizes appropriately?
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Anthony Gutierrez <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I think you could get a deadlock if you set the number of physical
>> registers equal to architectural registers because you won't have enough
>> free list entries, this is an Alpha style architecture where entries in the
>> rename table aren't freed until they're overwritten. I think you need to
>> set physical registers >= max number of arch registers + max number of
>> instructions in flight (ROB size).
>>
>> Perhaps you're running into a similar issue with your rename changes.
>>
>> Anthony Gutierrez
>> http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Xiangyang Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Korey,
>>>
>>> Thanks for reply. About your suggestion " 1) Why do anything to rename?
>>> Instead, why dont you change the number of physical registers to equal the
>>> number of architectural/logical registers?" , I think we did the same
>>> thing. If I understand right, the default prev_reg is set to architectural
>>> regs when the rename_map initialized. And then prev_reg's value changed
>>> during the simulation. So I just make the renamed_reg=prev_reg.  Please
>>> correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Xiangyang
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Korey Sewell <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Suggestions:
>>>> 1) Why do anything to rename? Instead, why dont you change the number
>>>> of physical registers to equal the number of architectural/logical
>>>> registers?
>>>>
>>>> 2) To debug, run the same benchmark with the SimpleCPU and compare the
>>>> committed instructions to your run. You should be able to figure out where
>>>> you simulation breaks (i.e. last committed instruction) and also track down
>>>> which instruction should be providing data to the instruction stuck in the
>>>> ROB.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Xiangyang Guo <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Gem5-users,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to use in order CPU for ARM ISA, so I need to modify O3 to
>>>>> InOrder.
>>>>>
>>>>> I disable the rename part by keeping the renamed reg same as prev reg,
>>>>> also change all the widths to 1 to keep in order issue and exe. In term of
>>>>> WAW and WAR, I just add a flag to each reg, if one inst is in the 
>>>>> pipeline,
>>>>> I mark the flag of its regs to 1. And if one inst wants to insert to the
>>>>> InstQueue, first check the dest reg's flag, if the flag is 1 meaning there
>>>>> is WAW/WAR, should block(tid), I bind this checking with isfull() together
>>>>> because I think they are doing the similar thing, which decides whether
>>>>> inserting this inst or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> But then I get the error :
>>>>> Exiting @ tick 9223372036854775807 because simulate() limit reached
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that I get a deadlock, And I also get the trace and find that
>>>>> the one inst stays in the ROB and cannot be ready for a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>> So could you give me some suggestion about this? Any hint is
>>>>> appreciable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Xiangyang
>>>>>
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