Thanks Arthur Perais.

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Regards,
Abhishek Rajgadia
Electrical Engineering,
IIT Bombay

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Arthur Perais <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Abhishek,
>
> You are quite right regarding store-store, but note that the function does
> not only check store-load ordering.
>
> As far as I understand, the function checks if younger loads to the same
> address have issued when an older store executes (store-load ordering), as
> well as if younger loads to the same address that got invalidated in the
> cache have issued when an older *load* executes (load-load ordering *to
> the same address*). The variable needsTSO (true in x86, false otherwise)
> changes what is considered a violation and what is not. Basically, if
> needsTSO is set, then enforcing full load-load ordering is required and
> handled in checkSnoop(). If it is not set, then load-load ordering to the
> same address only is required, and this is enforced in checkViolations() if
> a younger inflight load to the same address was touched by a snoop request
> in checkSnoop().
>
> Best,
>
> Arthur Perais.
>
>
> Le 29/03/2016 15:41, Abhishek Rajgadia a écrit :
>
> In the checkViolations() function in lsq_unit_impl.hh , it is mentioned in
> a comment that it checks if load/store incorrectly passed a store. Does it
> really check if store incorrectly passed a store? Since it checks the
> LoadQueue, isn't it checking only for loads incorrectly passing a store?
>
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> Abhishek Rajgadia
> Electrical Engineering,
> IIT Bombay
>
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